Understand Me Quotes - Page 5

• I'm no different to anyone else; I want people to like me. I just don't particularly want them to understand me.

  Willem Dafoe

  People, Want, Different

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• If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.

  Joni Mitchell

  People, Parent, Moral

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• I am so used to being able to express myself from being an actor. So when people don't understand me, I'm just completely lost.

  Liev Schreiber

  People, Actors, Able

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• truthfully, this is the fabric of all my fantasies: love shown not by a kiss or a wild look or a careful hand but by a willingness for research. i don’t dream of someone who understands me immediately, who seems to have known me my entire life, who says, i know me too. i want someone keen to learn my own strange organization, amazed at what’s revealed; someone who asks, and then what, and then what?

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Dream, Kissing, Hands

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• All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree - I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing.

  Andrea Corr

  Degrees, Needs, World

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• My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

  Paulo Coelho

  Email, Answers, Levels

  "Coelho Explores Goddesses in 'Witch of Portobello'". Interview with John Ydstie, www.npr.org. June 9, 2007.

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• I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.

  Norman Lear

  Strong, Careers, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• My worst personal problem is that my computer doesn't understand me.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Computer, Problem, Worst

  Ashleigh Brilliant (1985). “All I Want is a Warm Bed and a Kind Word and Unlimited Power: Even More Brilliant Thoughts”, Brilliant Enterprises

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• ... the twin concepts of nihilism and the antihero have had it. What began with The Wild One and James "nobody understands me" Dean, ran with increasing vehement negativism up through the Stones and Velvets and Iggy ... [I]t may be time, in spite of all indications to the contrary from the exterior society, to begin thinking in terms of heroes again, of love instead of hate, of energy instead of violence, of strength instead of cruelty, of action instead of reaction.

  Lester Bangs

  Hate, Hero, Thinking

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• No one understands me better and no one can make me laugh the way Bill does. Even after all these years, he is still the most interesting, energizing and fully alive person I have ever met.

  Hillary Clinton

  Years, Laughing, Interesting

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2004). “Living History”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• My favorite things in life are my children. If somebody wants to understand me, there's no better window into that than my children.

  Samantha Power

  Children, Window, My Favorite

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• I have never been able to understand why it is that just because I am unintelligible nobody understands me.

  Milton Mayer

  Able, Nobody Understands Me

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• Only man has law. Law must be built, do you understand me? You must build the law.

  Raphael Lemkin

  Men, Law, Built

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• I felt like, what better way for people to understand me by taking the initiative in giving my real name, my name that moms taught me so y'all actually know what's going on in my life and my music.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Mom, Real, Names

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?

  Confucius

  Men, Knowing, Spirit

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• My mom will never march in a gay pride parade with a big sign. She is very private. She lives in Chattanooga. She tries so hard to understand me and my life. But she said to me once, "Leslie, if I live to be 105 I'll never understand this need you have to air your dirty laundry. Why can't you just whisper it to a therapist?!" She doesn't understand.

  Leslie Jordan

  Mom, Dirty, Gay

  "July 16, 2008". Today Interview, www.today.com. July 16, 2008.

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• I do not understand men. They spend their lives to use their health to make money and then they spend their money to restore their health.

  Dalai Lama

  Men, Use, Making Money

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• I care about the people I know and love the most, but I also care about what the people I don't know think in the sense that I want them to think and understand me in a certain way. I don't base my life around either one, and I don't change the way I live to please either set of people, but I do care.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, People, And Love

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• No one suffers so much as he [the genius] with the people, and, therefore, for the people, with whom he lives. For, in a certain sense, it is certainly only "by suffering" that a man knows. If compassion is not itself clear, abstractly conceivable or visibly symbolic knowledge, it is, at any rate, the strongest impulse for the acquisition of knowledge. It is only by suffering that the genius understands men. And the genius suffers most because he suffers with and in each and all; but he suffers most through his understanding. . . .

  Otto Weininger

  Men, Compassion, People

  Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.181, Рипол Классик

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• I think the best thing about music is that someone could be writing a song that's so personal, and it tells so many other people's story at the same time. It kind of exemplifies that we are all kind of on the same wave[length] - it's amazing how comforting somebody else's story can be, because we have experienced their story in some way or another, and I can totally relate, and I get to feel that feeling and the expression of that emotion. I get to feel like as a listener, that somebody understands me, which is pretty incredible.

  Theresa Wayman

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• Now understand me well. It is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.

  Walt Whitman

  Struggle, Essence, Fruition

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• I'm just trying to get rid of all the mystery surrounding me and let people see what I'm thinking. So they can understand me and stop assuming things about me.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• When I say this, I don't mean that if you can love more people you will not go into marriage. As far as I see, a person who can love more will not go into marriage only for love. He will go into marriage for deeper things. Please understand me: if a person loves many people, then there is no reason to marry someone only because of love - because he can love many people without marriage, so there is no reason.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Mean, People

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From I to Q”

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• Youever insult Bride again, I swear I'll rip your throat out and feed you to the gators in the swamp. You understand me?" - Vane

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Rip, Swamps, Insult

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Play”, p.107, Macmillan

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• Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.

  Martin Heidegger

  Education, Teacher, Real

  Martin Heidegger (1968). “What is called thinking?”

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