Understanding Quotes - Page 16

• I'm not politically active, but I'm saying [that] you can open up people's understanding of themselves and others with play.

  Jeppe Hein

  Play, People, Active

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think we are only going to get it by standing up and voting our values, understanding that the lesser evil doesn't solve the problem. It just prolongs the problem and it paves the way to the greater evil. That the policies of the Clintons, the Wall Street deregulation and NAFTA, created the economic misery that becomes very fertile territory for demagogues like Donald Trump.

  Jill Stein

  Wall, Thinking, Evil

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• I did it through our ministries. We had ordination and basically understanding there ought - to be ordained that God has set apart, for the purposes of ministry. This is an important thing because of that defining moment, when I held that word up, I said I want to spend the rest of my life helping people.

  Paula White

  People, Important, Ministry

  Source: culteducation.com

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• Hillary Clinton has no understanding of the economy at all.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Economy, Clinton

  "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com. October 2, 2016.

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• Now, people have a hard time understanding how taxes work.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Hard Times, People, Taxes

  "Meet the Press". www.nbcnews.com. October 2, 2016.

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• I always wanted to know what the music behind some music was, or where it came from, and that gave me a point of reference for understanding the music I was listening to.

  Justin Adams

  Listening, Music Is, Wanted

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You build the bonds through the community and police force, build bonds of understanding, and then when people feel comfortable in their communities, that gap between the police and the communities they serve narrows. And when that gap narrows, it's safer for the communities and it's safer for the police.

  Tim Kaine

  People, Community, Police

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Now jamming - which is about collaborative improvisation - has to do with getting people together to be creative musically. But it is a very powerful metaphor for understanding the grammar of the creative process. It applies to business and to other pursuits as well.

  John Kao

  Powerful, People, Creative

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• It takes creativity at every stage to make the discontinuous leap from one level of knowledge to the next. These discontinuous leaps of understanding lead to insights that in turn lead to value creation.

  John Kao

  Creativity, Levels, Next

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• In a corporate context, companies have to try very hard to oppose the enticements of conventional wisdom. They must aim for the leaps, which means that companies have to do more than simply manage their knowledge, which is composed of the insights and understandings they already know. They also have to manage the knowledge-generation process. It's not just about, "Oh, we're going to create a data warehouse and we are going to invent a computerized filing system to get at all the stuff we know."

  John Kao

  Mean, Data, Trying

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• By the end of the documentary [ '13th'], you really understand what prison is, what the prison industrial complex is, where this whole Black Lives Matter movement comes from, the history of resistance, the history of how politicians have used criminality over the decades for a particular political gain. It's to give people an understanding of it so they can make their own decisions about how they want to be in the world.

  Ava DuVernay

  Giving, People, Decision

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Understanding what is going on in the world today inspires me in a negative sense because there's so much about it that I don't like - political stupidity, environmental degradation, etc. And that makes me want to change it, to make a difference in the world.

  Theodora Goss

  Differences, Stupidity, Political

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• I was comparatively late in understanding Bob Dylan's overwhelming importance as a songwriter. Everybody who does my job exists in the shadow of Bob Dylan. There are two categories: Dylan and everybody else. It's as simple as that. And it's going to be that way until he dies.

  Steve Earle

  Jobs, Simple, Two

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• If you connect emotionally with the plight of those characters, ou feel what they feel and you walk away with a sense of understanding and empathy, and hopefully, something has been illuminated for you. And I tink that's what happendd for a lot of readers with my novels.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Character, Empathy, Plight

  "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Peter Crooks, www.diablomag.com. April 2009.

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• When I was starting out, I would get printouts of what was being written about me that week. At first it was all good things, and then it started to turn. I very quickly learned, "This isn't good, this isn't helping me." But it was a very important exercise for me in terms of really understanding that one's sense of self is internal. I have had an extreme opportunity to learn that lesson, and I think it's been such a blessed fortune.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Blessed, Exercise, Opportunity

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I had this radical idea that the police should obey the law. My view was that any human system without adequate checks and balances will tend towards corruption and abuse. That's why you have meat inspectors. Not because you hate butchers, but because of an understanding of human nature.

  Van Jones

  Hate, Views, Law

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I think we were naive during the first two years of the [Barack] Obama Administration because the Republicans didn't fight us on this point during the 2008 Presidential Election. Obama and McCain both ran on a clean energy platform. But now, uncontested lies have eroded hard-won public understanding. So, we have to go back and make the case again.

  Van Jones

  Lying, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: aalbc.com

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• It does seem to me, though, that the countries that gained most from World Summit on the Information Society are those that saw it as an opportunity to engage in more diverse discussion about the issues internally and to seek to raise the quality of debate (both in terms of information and understanding).

  David Souter

  Country, Opportunity, Issues

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• Hitler had this understanding that you speak to people's deepest, darkest emotions and give them voice that can be incredibly effective.

  Tim Wu

  Voice, People, Giving

  Source: www.npr.org

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• People with long memories and a vivid sense of the past have an immediate understanding of politicians like Donald Trump. They are not surprised by the behavior of Google, a corporation that notionally (until recently anyway) espoused the slogan "don't be evil" and then runs over individual people and even entire nations in the pursuit of profit.

  Dale Jamieson

  Running, Memories, Past

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• As I've got older, I've got more understanding of relationships and how they work - but every single relationship has different dynamics, so you can't paint everyone with the same colour.

  Phil Collins

  Different, Dynamics, Single Relationship

  "Phil Collins webchat - your questions answered on prog rock, self-doubt and Miami Vice". www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2016.

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• I think Donald Trump is simply incapable of sticking to a single message. Or of understanding that he doesn't know better than everyone else in every circumstance.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Thinking, Messages, Trump

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• The national conversation around white entitlement, around institutionalized racism, the Black Lives Matter movement, I think, came about in large part because of the widening and broadening of our understanding of inequality. That conversation was begun by Occupy.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Thinking, White, Racism

  Source: www.salon.com

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• The cheerleaders for neoliberalism work hard to normalize dominant institutions and relations of power through a vocabulary and public pedagogy that create market-driven subjects, modes of consciousness, and ways of understanding the world that promote accommodation, quietism and passivity.

  Henry Giroux

  Hard Work, Vocabulary, Neoliberalism

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In Quebec, in spite of police violence and threats, thousands of students demonstrated for months against a former right-wing government that wanted to raise tuition and cut social protections. These demonstrations are continuing in a variety of countries throughout the globe and embrace an investment in a new understanding of the commons as a shared space of knowledge, debate, exchange and participation.

  Henry Giroux

  Country, Cutting, Police Violence

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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