Understanding Quotes - Page 39

• If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Funny, Play, Comedy

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• The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

  David Hume

  Three, Fancy, Kind

  David Hume (1826). “And the human understanding. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. Appendix. The natural history of religion”, p.530

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• In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Religious, Unconditional Love, Discipline

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• It's weird because when you initially write a song, you write it with no understanding that the world is maybe going to hear it one day. So when you go into the studio, you don't see the hundreds of people at a gig or the viewers on TV, you just write a song without any inhibitions or boundaries.

  Jessie J

  Song, Writing, People

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

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• I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Drinking, Beer, Years

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• I've learned a lot about doing accessories and making shoes and handbags. I don't think my perspective has really changed. The subtlety of understanding yarns, what makes a fabric what it is - I've learned technical skills and more about the craft.

  Marc Jacobs

  Thinking, Skills, Shoes

  Interview with Robert Duffy, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 17, 2010.

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• Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.

  Ashley Judd

  Reality, Imagination, Important

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• The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.

  Harvey Keitel

  Struggle, Rewards, Way

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• My family has had to become quite understanding about me not returning phone calls when I'm filming.

  Anna Kendrick

  Phones, Phone Calls, My Family

  "Toronto Q&A: Anna Kendrick on The Company You Keep, Civic Virtue, Weed, and Hip-Hop". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. September 12, 2012.

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• Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless place if you don't really understand: Who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing? To feel fulfillment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, that is the most important thing.

  Alicia Keys

  Mean, Important, World

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

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• Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.

  Nicole Kidman

  Married, Compromise, Being Married

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Dec 16, 2016

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• I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mother, Character, Kids

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• I'm in favour of politicians having extra-marital relationships. Oh yeah. It makes them more understanding of the flaws that the rest of us have.

  Joe Klein

  Favour, Flaws, Politician

  "Man with no name". Interview with Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2000.

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• We are all born with an innate understanding of interpersonal equity - the idea that if you lend me your rake today, I'll respond in kind when you come to borrow my shovel tomorrow. Or nearly all of us are born with that. Psychopaths aren't.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Ideas, Rakes, Today

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• And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

  Hans Kung

  People, Community, Church

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• Most female CEOs have been more understanding than their male counterparts, of the stress that new mothers experience to 'do it all,' which often means, 'all by themselves.' Why? They've been there. They understand the policies needed to keep women in the workforce.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Mother, Stress, Mean

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• I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.

  Anne Lamott

  Opinion, Theological, Word Of God

  "'Like a puppy in a Christmas stocking'". Interview With Susan Olasky, world.wng.org. September 20, 2003.

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• Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge closer ties based on mutual understanding and respect, leading to permanent peace in the Taiwan Strait.

  Nick Lampson

  Ties, Taiwan, May

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• We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  50th Birthday, Age, Opinion

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 4, 1799.

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• Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

  Walter Lippmann

  Imaginative, Ideals, Desirable

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.392, Harvard University Press

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• Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low.

  Eric Liu

  Past, Government, Today

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• My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Education, Morning, Teaching

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• I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.

  Gustav Mahler

  Delicacy

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• Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

  Maimonides

  Opinion, Philosopher, Imagine

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.283, Moses Maimonides

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• With the never-ending stream of new social technologies, apps and platforms rolling out every day, its easy to get lost in the minutiae of social media. Yet for there to be effective change, especially within large, top-down, hierarchical institutions, a company must have an over-arching understanding of the new role it has to play.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Technology, Media, Play

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