Understanding Quotes - Page 20

• It's a neat experience to go from the blank page to an actor elevating it to the audience understanding it - the full life of that is why I became a writer.

  Bryan Fuller

  Actors, Pages, Blank

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I guess, in Boston through the time when I finally left to come to New York. One was understanding and coping with anti-Semitism. Boston, at the time, was the most anti-Semitic city in the country. And I found out when I was an adolescent that you have to be crazy to go out after dark all by yourself; you'd get your head bashed in.

  Nat Hentoff

  Country, New York, Crazy

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I like to say understanding is the power.

  Byron Katie

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I think that if Essien Udom had something he didn't take it back far enough in history to get at the proper understanding of it.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, Enough, Ifs

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• He who is anxious to attain a true understanding of holy Scripture, will discover the spiritual truths which are spoken by it to those who are called "spiritual," by comparing the meaning of what is addressed to those of weaker mind with what is announced to such as are of acuter understanding, both meanings being frequently found in the same passage by him who is capable of comprehending it.

  Origen

  Spiritual, Mind, Scripture

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• How you staff, particularly the chief of staff, the national security adviser, your White House counsel, how you set up a process in the system to surface information and generate options for a president, understanding that ultimately the president is going to be the final decision-maker. That's something that has to be attended to right away.

  Barack Obama

  White, House, Decision

  Source: time.com

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• You win by struggle, and that requires understanding and serious analysis of the options and the circumstances, and then you can do a lot.

  Noam Chomsky

  Struggle, Winning, Analysis

  Source: www.iww.org

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• I do believe that with more worldwide influences, the coming of the internet age and digital media, the flow of information is far greater, and people's understanding can expand more easily.

  Kabir Bedi

  Believe, Media, People

  Source: www.youthkiawaaz.com

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• When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a wide range of colors, but you find instances in a lot of black literature in which the blackness is used as a metaphor.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Color, People, Black

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Going out in the field, it's always enlightening to see what's working and what's not and to sit down and talk - I was with young girls in south Africa - understanding why our tools for prevention aren't being adopted, and what way may need to invent to help protect them.

  Bill Gates

  Girl, Needs, Going Out

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• One concern I had while I was working actively in the intelligence community - being someone who had broad access, who was exposed to more reports than average individuals, who had a better understanding of the bigger picture - was that the post - World War II, post - Cold War directions of societies were either broadly authoritarian or [broadly] liberal or libertarian.

  Edward Snowden

  War, Average, Community

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Too often we forget that social and political movements don't happen overnight. They don't bring change immediately - you have to build a critical mass of understanding of the issues.

  Edward Snowden

  Issues, Political, Movement

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• We Protestants ought to humbly confess that the theater and the sports have done more for race amity, for race understanding than, on the whole, the Protestant Church in certain type, in certain parts of the nation.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Sports, Race, Church

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I go into every meeting, into every room and for every speech understanding the standard deviation, the Bell Curve. I know there are about 10-15 percent of people in the room, who say, "I've been trying to say this for years. Finally. I agree. Yes, yes, yes." I know there are about 15 percent of the people in the room who think I'm an idiot, who think I don't know what I'm talking about, who think I'm naive or I have oversimplified everything. The majority who are open to the ideal.

  Simon Sinek

  Thinking, Curves, Talking

  Source: advisor.tv

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• Those who wish to change the world should have the best possible understanding of the world, including what is revealed by the sciences, some of which they might be able to use for their purposes. That's why workers education, including science and mathematics, has commonly been a concern of left intellectuals.

  Noam Chomsky

  Should Have, Wish, Purpose

  Source: libcom.org

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• One contribution scientists can and should make is to be clear and explicit about the limits of scientific understanding, a matter that is particularly important in societies where people are trained to defer to alleged experts.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Important, Experts

  Source: libcom.org

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• I really think we were charting a course to having a more sane response to mass incarceration, to drug use, and to understanding that the war on drugs has resulted only in the empowerment of vast criminal enterprises and the destruction of democracies around the world. And all that is coming to a miserable, horrific halt.

  Ayelet Waldman

  War, Thinking, Drug Use

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• We need a legal and political understanding of the right of the refugee, whereby no solution for one group produces a new class of refugees - you can't solve a refugee problem by producing a new, potentially greater refugee problem.

  Judith Butler

  Class, Political, Needs

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• Although the history of dispossession and exile for Jews is very different from the history of dispossession and exile for Palestinians, they both have recent and searing experiences which might allow them to come to a common understanding on the rights of refugees, or what it might mean to live together with resonant histories of that kind.

  Judith Butler

  Mean, Rights, Together

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• We have to find a way of understanding how one category of sex can be "assigned" from both and another sense of sex can lead us to resist and reject that sex assignment. How do we understand that second sense of sex? It is not the same as the first - it is not an assignment that others give us. But maybe it is an assignment we give ourselves? If so, do we not need a world of others, linguistic practices, social institutions, and political imaginaries in order to move forward to claim precisely those categories we require, and to reject those that work against us?

  Judith Butler

  Sex, Moving, Order

  Source: transadvocate.com

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• I used to read more when I was a kid than I do now. It was all sort of fuel for the fire to teach you how to think and how to make things and it informed the architecture that I was doing. It's better coming in with that history and that kind of knowledge and depth of understanding of humanity that is very important for building buildings - for understanding people and how they should live and how you could make your lives better and stuff like that.

  Frank Gehry

  Kids, Thinking, Fire

  Source: blog.americansforthearts.org

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• This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.

  Al Sharpton

  Agreement, Community, Police

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• In the end, I would love [the audience] to be more open to the understanding of different types of personalities, you know?

  Miguel Angel Silvestre

  Personality, Different, Ends

  Source: www.towleroad.com

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• I think there's a huge parallel that affects my musical taste, and connections that have to do with my ethnic diversity and my musical tastes and the diversity of that. And it's interesting that, growing up on the circuit, it posed such a challenge, not only to me deciding what my identity was amongst my peers, but then on the music side, it was like trying to explain or convince people especially in the music industry that there was a place for what I was trying to do. But at the same time, I think it has a lot to do with timing and even me, like, understanding it.

  Miguel

  Growing Up, Thinking, Diversity

  Source: us.napster.com

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• Anybody who takes Martin Luther King seriously has got to go beyond the standard understanding of who he was, has to connect those dots.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Dots, Luther

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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