Understanding Quotes - Page 37

• The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing it and exploiting it in terrible and ridiculous ways. Kobe beef should not be used in a hamburger. It's completely pointless.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Real, Annoyed, Beef

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• Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Interesting, Experience, Doe

  Death of the Heart (1938) pt. 1, ch. 1

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• I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.

  Richard Branson

  School, Years, Tests

  "Life at 30,000 feet". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. March, 2007.

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• Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Nature, Science, Technology

  Universities Quarterly (1956) vol. 10, no. 3, p. 252

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• People think that coaches are always right, but it's difficult to teach a runner how to run, because every runner is different. You have to have an understanding of how to assist what that runner has, so they know how to assist what you have without taking away your special ability, because you're not like anybody else.

  Jim Brown

  Running, Thinking, People

  "Sporting News Conversation: Jim Brown interviews Adrian Peterson". Interview with Steve Greenberg, www.sportingnews.com. August 3, 2009.

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• Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

  Brooke Burke

  Who I Am, Tick, Okay

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• We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?

  Ken Burns

  Hard Times, Jazz, Having A Hard Time

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• I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.

  Tim Burton

  Confused, Real, People

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• You know what 'DOUBT' stands for? It stands for 'Debate On Understanding Bewildersome Thoughts.'

  Gary Busey

  Doubt, Debate, Knows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think fans of the sport have a good understanding now of how fit Formula One drivers need to be.

  Jenson Button

  Sports, Thinking, Fans

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• Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene.

  Nicolas Cage

  Guy, Scene, Rhythm

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• There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

  Tony Campolo

  Religious, Doubt, Enlightenment

  "Religion After Freud" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2007.

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• Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Imagination, Matter, Poor

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.50, Cambridge University Press

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• If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'

  Benjamin Carson

  Real, Mean, Thinking

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• I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Culture, Attention

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• We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Believe, Practice, Way

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• The people I've respected most in the industry over the years - Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he handled growing old on-screen. It's understanding that you're now basically a character actor.

  George Clooney

  Character, Years, People

  "George Clooney: I'm Now a Character Actor". Interview with David Gergen, parade.com. September 22, 2011.

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• I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.

  Marion Cotillard

  Hate, Simple, Way

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• May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Joy, Humanity, Friendly

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• I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly rating out of pattern... I'm pretty good at understanding why things are becoming popular.

  Simon Cowell

  Song, Tv Shows, Broken

  "Simon Cowell is a Very Odd Boy" by Chris Heath, www.gq.com. August 23, 2011.

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• We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.

  Ted Cruz

  Men, Unlimited Potential, People

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• I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it’s really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it’s all art.

  Ice Cube

  Art, School, Perspective

  "Ice Cube Discusses His Collaboration With RareInk". Interview with Melinda Brocka, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2011.

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• The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched by it. In both cases, I've coped artistically by believing the criticisms weren't right. They upset me, but they didn't challenge my understanding of how to write, nor of how morality functions in literature.

  Rachel Cusk

  Believe, Writing, Upset

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• Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.

  Richard Dawkins

  Way, Sometimes, Metaphor

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• Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a great chef, there's nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn't.

  Gerard Depardieu

  Differences, Cooking, Taste

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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