Understood Quotes - Page 32

• I'm fascinated with actors, and I've never quite understood the process.

  George Saunders

  Actors, Never Quit, Process

  "Susan Sarandon". Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• But if I did read, say, [Maurice] Merleau-Ponty, for instance, it always seemed to me that the parts that I understood in what he was talking about - and I read him because - well, he wrote a book, well, the Phenomenology of Perception [New York: Humanities Press, 1962]. And it seemed to me that perception had a lot do with how we take in art.

  Robert Barry

  Art, New York, Book

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• The more respect I had for myself, and the more I took care of myself, the more I understood what I needed out of a partner.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Care, Partners, Needed

  "Reese Witherspoon on How She's Shaking Up Hollywood, and Why She Feels Like Gloria Steinem Told Her to Do Legally Blonde". Interview With Jennifer Siebel Newsom, www.glamour.com. October 29, 2015.

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• I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that were safe to hold what I felt.

  Grace Cavalieri

  Writing, World, Safe

  "Four Energetic Women Behind America's Literary Arts". Interview with Daniela Gioseffi, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

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• I actually went on lectures at Harvard, Stanford, Oxford and all the business schools eight years ago, explaining what the implications were and how the platforms could be powerful in creating the narrative of your brand and mobilizing your life so that you become humanized as well. I understood that and thought that was really empowering, not only to artists, but to brands as well and in general.

  MC Hammer

  Powerful, School, Artist

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• The sudden death of a partner while expecting a child is so universally understood as awful that I don't think anyone with any other weight to carry is going to get to same kind of sympathy - except perhaps people who lose a child.

  Carolyn Hax

  Children, Thinking, People

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age.

  Daniel Clowes

  Real, Age, Fluidity

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 30, 2012.

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• To be truly seen and understood - in all our innocence and glory and yes, our brokenness, too - is to be delivered into the spiritual ethers where both seen and seer are healed.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Innocence, Glory

  "Enchanted Love". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• For decades, I thought that scientific truth, solid economic case studies, and common sense were enough to bring about change on the environmental front. After all, the data is so compelling! I thought that if people just understood the severity of today's environmental threats and knew about available solutions, those solutions would happen. Not so.

  Annie Leonard

  Data, Common Sense, People

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• I think it is now widely understood that the so-called "War on Drugs" has largely been a failure. Too many people have developed criminal records for smoking marijuana. Too many people have gone to jail for nonviolent crimes. So I think it's important for us to rethink the war on drugs.

  Bernie Sanders

  War, Thinking, Marijuana

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• [Nelson] Mandela was very keen not to be understood as an exceptional person.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Exceptional, Persons, Nelson

  Source: anniepaul.net

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• I have been a vegetarian for forty-two years. I did it because I didn't want animals to die so I could eat. Then, eight to ten years ago, when I found out the life of a dairy cow is way worse than the life of a beef cow, I understood I had to switch to complete veganism. Otherwise, I would be very inconsistent in my beliefs that animals shouldn't be abused for food.

  Sam Simon

  Animal, Years, Two

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• When yoga is understood in its totality, it is neither a form of exercise, nor is it an esoteric philosophy or religion; it is a practical and comprehensive science for realizing life's ultimate aims.

  Rod Stryker

  Philosophy, Yoga, Exercise

  "Yoga and Your Soul’s Four Desires" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.

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• My son is now fourteen, and from the moment he was born, I understood that forevermore my heart would be walking around outside my body.

  Dani Shapiro

  Heart, Son, Would Be

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I just couldn't believe that it [Into the Forest script] had fallen into my lap, because I felt so incredibly connected to my character, and I understood her, and I really...I haven't had that feeling about a script since I had read Thirteen or The Wrestler when I was just like, "No one else can do this." I just feel so passionate about it.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Believe, Character, Feelings

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• It's a tract against capital punishment in the genre of Swift's Modest Proposal. I was simply following a formula to its logical conclusion. Some people appear to have understood it. The publication of Naked Lunch in England practically coincided with their abolition of capital punishment. The book obviously had a certain effect.

  William S. Burroughs

  Book, Punishment, Lunch

  Source: www.stopsmilingonline.com

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• Know your audience. If I don't share in a way that will be understood, I lose my ability to connect.

  Jennifer Widerstrom

  Way, Share, Ability

  "Jennifer Widerstrom: Fears, Philanthropy, and Fitness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Fashion is also a form of art, and like every kind of art, it has its own way of expression. In other words, if a dress looks better on a thin girl, on a catwalk, during a very specific moment of time and space then it's represented as part of a "fashion Show". It is after all a "Show" and it has to be understood by people that it is a "show" and not real life.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Girl, Fashion, Art

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• You have to answer the question, like it or not. And the questions deserve a valid legal response, even if the response isn't one that will be easily understood. You have an obligation as a member of the court to do what you are bound to do under federal law, even if it isn't an attractive resolution from a public standpoint.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Law, Answers, Resolution

  "Sandra Day O'Connor Explores Supreme Court History, Inner Workings". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. April 3, 2013.

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• I don't know any other job that the off-the-field issues - especially something personal like that - affects your job. But as far as the parenting lesson, no [I understood that]. To me it was so simple, it was a situation where I disciplined my child and it didn't turn out the way I wanted.

  Adrian Peterson

  Jobs, Children, Simple

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• If I write about something that I've experienced and somebody goes, "Oh my God, I feel the exact same way," then both of us are connected, and when you feel connected to people, you feel understood. You feel a sense of purpose.

  Dan Mangan

  Writing, People, Purpose

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• Both [Donald] Trump and Bernie [Sanders] got to this idea of the vanishing middle class sooner and with more passion than more mainstream politicians, and benefited from it. The difference, of course, is that Bernie understood this in a more compassionate framework, and talked about it in conjunction with a revitalization of another part of the American project, which is the notion that we are all created equal, and that our laws and culture and action ought to reflect that.

  George Saunders

  Passion, Law, Class

  Source: sojo.net

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• Education must be understood as growth, or the facilitation of growth.

  John Dewey

  Growth

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• I definitely understood the feeling of moving to Los Angeles and having a dream to be an actor in films and to get to be a part of things that I loved and inspire people in some way.

  Emma Stone

  Dream, Moving, People

  Source: variety.com

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• There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and makes a man understood and valued in all countries, and by all nations; it is the philosopher's stone, that turns all metals, and even stones, into gold, and suffers not want to break into its dwelling; it is the northwest passage, that brings the merchant's ships as soon to him as he can desire: in a word, it conquers all enemies, and makes fortune itself pay contribution.

  Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

  Country, Art, Science

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