Understood Quotes - Page 35

• Donald Trump was underrated, but he understood social media and he understood reality television.

  Van Jones

  Reality, Media, Television

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• Donald Trump understood the dynamics of the new media system better than the people who ran the old media system.

  Van Jones

  Media, People, Dynamics

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• Steven [Sebring] just fell in with my family life. He helped me wash the dishes and play with the kids. I could tell that he was a person who understood families.

  Patti Smith

  Kids, Play, My Family

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There are a lot of layers in the film [Dream of Life]. And during editing we would try to tame all the layers, try to make things a little bit more understood. We would move scenes around. We'd try all these things.

  Steven Sebring

  Dream, Moving, Editing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What's important is that people give the kinds of reasons that can be understood and appraised apart from their particular comprehensive doctrines: for example, that they argue against physician-assisted suicide not just by speculating about God's wrath or the afterlife, but by talking about what they see as assisted suicide's potential injustices.

  John Rawls

  Suicide, Talking, Afterlife

  Interview with Bernard G. Prusak, www.commonwealmagazine.org. September 25, 1998.

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• I understood because of his personality. [Donald Trump] is different. And for years the presidency has been like a smooth ride and nothing really dramatic has happened. But with him every day is full of energy. Things are going the happen. And today when I met him, it was like meeting a different person.

  Jim Brown

  Years, Personality, Today

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I played sports, so I understood quickly I shouldn't be eating fast food because it was slowing me down, making me feel lousy and lazy, and my instincts were not working as they should.

  Wilmer Valderrama

  Sports, Lazy, Eating

  Source: www.thehollywoodgossip.com

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• I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read fiction to understand the human condition.

  Richard Dawkins

  Doubt, Never Quit, Fiction

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• I don't know how people act. I've never understood that.

  Quentin Crisp

  People, Know How, Knows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• [Trust Me] was TNT, and they were really supportive of the show, but in the end they just didn't feel it was their audience. I never really understood why we didn't get a longer run at it, because it was Griffin Dunne and Monica Potter. Just a really strong cast.

  Eric McCormack

  Running, Strong, Supportive

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We're well aware, and we have been for a long time, that there is a real threat from adversaries, state actors, non-state actors, to hack us, influence us, destroy stuff through cyber means. Because cyber threat has been understood for a while, it's longstanding, it's a concern.

  Susan Rice

  Real, Mean, Long

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I've known him since 1954 and I've never taken Mujib Rahiman seriously - I understood from the very first moment that there was no depth to him, no preparation, that he was an agitator breathing a lot of fire and with an absolute lack of ideas.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Taken, Fire, Breathing

  Source: dhakadigest.net

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• I think I say things nicely and my whole goal is to be understood and that includes by people who don't understand me.

  Jen Kirkman

  Thinking, People, Goal

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I could go on and on about how the statements and concepts that used to depress me now bring me joy, but that is not easily understood for people who think the way I used to think and believe what I used to believe.

  Byron Katie

  Depressing, Believe, Thinking

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• It felt like an oversight to me, something that needed to be corrected. They [women who hid Jewish children] deserved to be understood and remembered.

  Megan Chance

  Children, Oversight, Needed

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• For me, I understood the gift of being able to empower others and to not do everything yourself.

  Wilmer Valderrama

  Empowering, Able

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Donald Trump understood America. He animated America, and now he'll be the president of all Americans.

  Kellyanne Conway

  America, President, Trump

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Those who actually do have a valid claim to such special competence have a particular obligation to make very clear to the general public the limits of what is understood at any serious level; these limits are typically very narrow in matters of significance in human affairs.

  Noam Chomsky

  Special, Levels, Matter

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• I'm not just going to go on these fishing expeditions. I didn't do that with President Obama. We didn't go through this with President [Barack] Obama. I think the world and certainly the American voters understand that Donald Trump has mass holdings. He's worth billions of dollars. He's been very successful in business. And I think the American voters understood that when they voted him in.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Successful, Thinking, Fishing

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The big tech companies understood that the government had not only damaged American principles, it had hurt their businesses.

  Edward Snowden

  Hurt, Government, Principles

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• The idea that speaking at all on the topic, demanding public space in which to have that debate, is itself an act of complicity with violence, and violence against Israelis, understood as synonymous with Jews, and so violence against Jews, clearly stops the speech with an unspeakable allegation.

  Judith Butler

  Ideas, Space, Speech

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• I certainly don't mean to suggest that all investigative journalism prior to 9/11 in the US was praiseworthy. But there were more examples to which one could point, and there were at last some activist photographers who understood that getting information into the public sphere in spite of military censorship was a right and obligation within democracy. That strain in war journalism did nearly vanish during that time.

  Judith Butler

  Military, War, Mean

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• I never did like the assertion of the "innate" inferiority or women or Blacks, and I understood that when people tried to talk that way, they were trying to "fix" a social reality into a natural necessity. And yet, sometimes we do need a language that refers to a basic, fundamental, enduring, and necessary dimension of who we are, and the sense of sexed embodiment can be precisely that.

  Judith Butler

  Reality, People, Trying

  Source: transadvocate.com

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• It has to be understood that the world doesn't exist with people who are exactly like us.

  T.I.

  People, World

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.

  Al Sharpton

  Thinking, Sides, Decree

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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