Understanding Quotes - Page 40

• When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds.

  Camryn Manheim

  Confidence, Odds, Overcoming

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• I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my kind and my generation. I thought it was just old people talking.

  Wynton Marsalis

  New York, Philosophical, Talking

  "Third Screen". Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• I feel that for years of teaching in the country and reading criticism in books, I feel like the things most needed in our culture are the understanding of the meanings of our music. We haven't done that good of job teaching our kids what our music means or how we developed our taste in music that reminds us and teaches us who we are.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Country, Jobs, Book

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• Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.

  Mary Matalin

  Self, Numbers, People

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• Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Humility, Men, Self

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• I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Curiosity, Entertainment

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• Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Knowing, Passionate, World

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• Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.

  Danica McKellar

  Math, Height, Faces

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• Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Influence, Behavior

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• One thing that I feel very, very strongly is that we talk about Islamic countries, Islamic people, Islamic leaders, as either moderates or extremists. It's almost like there are only two categories of Muslims. And actually, that doesn't show respect. It shows lack of understanding of the diversity of Muslim thought.

  David Miliband

  Country, Islamic, Two

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

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• I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations.

  Sienna Miller

  Thinking, People, Sometimes

  "Britney wants to promote manager to husband " by Ree Hines, www.today.com. August 6, 2009.

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• Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

  C. Wright Mills

  Anger, Society, Individual

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.3, Oxford University Press

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• We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Education, Memories, Stuff

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.333, Delphi Classics

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• It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Children, Technology, Today

  "Michael Morpurgo: How Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories became music to my ears" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2013.

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• The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

  Craig T. Nelson

  Thinking, Compassion, Giving

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• Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Mean, Cat

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• I simply do not think that yelling, swearing, threatening or belittling will get you to the place you want to be faster than kindness, understanding, patience and a little willingness to compromise.

  Rachel Nichols

  Kindness, Thinking, Yelling

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• Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Family, Nature, Women

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• For students, understanding the separate and unique functions of each branch of government can help them understand how different kinds of government officials can help solve different kinds of problems.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Unique, Government, Different

  "My Exclusive Interview with Justice Sandra Day O’Connor". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2009.

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• I look at how my kids view exercise. They have a complete understanding that nutrition and exercise go hand in hand. I didn't think like that when I was a kid. But they have a real consciousness about it that I'd like to think comes from the years of attention we've put into this.

  Michelle Obama

  Real, Kids, Exercise

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• Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California.

  Rick Perry

  Moving, Gay, Marijuana

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• Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to other human concerns. Semantics is about the relation of words to reality - the way that speakers commit themselves to a shared understanding of the truth, and the way their thoughts are anchored to things and situations in the world.

  Steven Pinker

  Reality, World, Way

  Steven Pinker (2007). “The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature”, p.18, Penguin

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• Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre.

  John Podhoretz

  Movie, Dark, Keys

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• I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I'd lay my cards down on that, and say that it's that that I'm trying to do.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Voice, Humanity

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• I didn't play football in school, but I've been a fan of football all my life. I have a fair understanding of it. Doing movies about it really helps because you know what makes them work and what doesn't.

  Dennis Quaid

  Football, School, Play

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 6, 2008.

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