Understood Quotes - Page 36

• South Africa has faced many problems in the past. You would understand those problems if you understood the history of the struggle to get rid of Apartheid and the struggle to establish democracy.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Struggle, Past, Democracy

  "Tregernomics Interview with President Thabo Mbeki". Interview with Adam Treger, www.mbeki.org. October 31, 2016.

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• Any time one seeks to produce for a larger public one inevitably has to drop material that would only be understood by a particular group.

  Tim Parks

  Groups, Produce, Materials

  Source: theuntranslated.wordpress.com

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• The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.

  Junot Diaz

  Art, Writing, Mysterious

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• And at the time, for one of the few times in my life I didn't have a band, I just had myself and the guitar, so I was going to have to do something with just my voice, just the guitar and just my songs that was going to move someone enough to give me a shot. So I wrote songs that were very lyrically alive and lyrically dense. And they were unique, but it really came out of the motivation to - or I understood it was - I was going to have to make my mark that way.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Song, Motivation, Moving

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When we were kids, you picked up a little paper and put it on a stick; and when you waved it back and forth, you understood the power of air underneath the wings. In that way, a child begins to understand abstraction, poetry, metaphor, symbolism. You play with the materials you have and use your imagination to make them into something else. That what's so sad about having everything on a little screen - it's not physical and dimensional, and that seems backward.

  Julie Taymor

  Children, Kids, Air

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• Donald Trump proved that he understood America in the way that those who say they're informing America simply did not.

  Kellyanne Conway

  America, Way, Trump

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Let's start with the black glove. We felt it necessary being the fact that the Olympic Games, for the first time ever [in 1968], had been televised worldwide. The second thing is the fact that it was in Technicolor. Never had the games been shown in color before.We wanted it to be understood that we were representing America, but we were representing Black America in particular, so that's why we put the black glove on.

  John Carlos

  Color, Games, America

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Thrown into the atmosphere of action [in 1954], I suddenly understood the kind of neurosis that dominated all my previous work. I had not been able to recognize it before: I was inside. Simone de Beauvoir had guessed these reasons before I did.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Atmosphere, Neurosis, Able

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• [Lost of the absolute] is in this sense that ''I no longer know what to do with my life" must be understood. Critics have been mistaken about the meaning of this phrase, seeing in it a cry of despair as in Simone de Beauvoir's "I have been cheated." When she uses this word it is to indicate that she claims from life an absolute which she cannot find there.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Despair, Phrases, Use

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• I wrote in Les Mots that "I have often thought against myself." That sentence has not been
  understood either. Critics have seen in it a confession of masochism. But that is how one
  should think: revolting against everything "inculcated'' that one may have within oneself.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Thinking, May, Confession

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• My mother and I definitely got to a point where we had to have a real conversation and talk woman to woman, or daughter to mother, friend to friend - just off the record, clear the air and communicate. I didn't want to drive my mama crazy, but at the same time, I had to do, I had to learn, I had to grow and she understood that. She knows me better than anyone else on the planet so I tried to think about that.

  Queen Latifah

  Mother, Daughter, Crazy

  Source: globalgrind.com

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• From the time I first understood economic principles, I was always concerned also that any system be operated on an efficient basis, which meant decentralization because knowledge is not concentrated anywhere. It's based on motivation, and so these are the advantages of, say, the cautious case for capitalism, that the market system is efficient.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Motivation, Firsts, Principles

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• I know there were periods of times where I didn't feel understood, and there were very few people around me that I felt like they really got me. There was one person who was sort of the one in my life that really got me.In general, I felt a little bit on the outside and not totally included. There was a period of time when we were moving around a lot. So I couldn't really hold on to a certain set of friends. And so that was a little bit difficult.

  Mahershala Ali

  Moving, People, Littles

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I believe what Martin Luther King Jr. believed. You remember what the title of the March on Washington was? "Jobs and Freedom." What King understood is that you have to deal with the economic issues as well as the political issues and the civil rights issues.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Kings, Believe

  Source: billmoyers.com

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• It was when Boston invited us to do a parade one November, and I was the only [Star Wars] cast member skeptical of the willingness of people to come out to see us five actors drive by in antique cars in the Boston rain. Well, it was the first time I really understood the show's popularity.

  John Ratzenberger

  Stars, War, Rain

  Source: www.starwars.com

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• Even the written history [of Abraham Lincoln's times] is poorly understood by most people.

  George Saunders

  People, Abraham, Written

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• In civilized society, women have the ultimate power. It's women who say "no," in civilized society. That's what you feminists never have understood.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Feminist, Civilized Society, Ultimate

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Even just reading "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore,"I got a sense of the world and the story [Macon Blair] wanted to tell. And then I had a meeting with him and understood how he likes to work. I really trusted him from the beginning.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Reading, Home, Stories

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• Vaccines are extremely well tested; their safety is well understood. The false allegations about vaccines causing autism have been disproven. But there are still echoes out there confusing people.

  Bill Gates

  Vaccines, Echoes, Autism

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• What [Margaret Thatcher] made a play for was the acquisitive: our greedy nature. She set aside other things like an identification with community, altruism. The only collective that she understood was: Rally around and slay the enemy.

  Hilary Mantel

  Play, Community, Enemy

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• A problem not so well understood is the growing presence of plastics in the marine food chain. If we don't make big changes fast, the fish we do save may no longer be safe to eat.

  Tim Winton

  Marine, Growing, May

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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• We are all part of that global traffic and I think that the effort to make yourself understood and to be not a problem for anyone or to hide your own particuarly is a mistake. I think people will and do value individuality.

  Tim Winton

  Mistake, Thinking, People

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• The more I invested in myself, the kinder I was to myself and the more I understood myself.

  Marco Pierre White

  Kinder

  Source: tart.org

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• Many people, including myself, thought of Jobs as an inventor, an Edison-like figure, but he wasn't. I did a documentary on James Brown recently; and, oddly, I found a lot in common between Jobs and Brown. Jobs was also a fantastic performer, put on an extraordinary live show at his product launches, but he could also be ruthless, cruel and totally self-aggrandizing. And just as Brown surrounded himself with the very best musicians, Jobs understood the importance of hiring the absolutely most talented people and knew how crucial they were to the success of what he was trying to do.

  Alex Gibney

  Jobs, Self, People

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I teach art at a famous art school, and yet I don't have really the least notion what post-modernism means, but we have people in the letters and science department that understand it quite well and the students go there if they want to understand what this term that is being bandied about is all about, but I've never understood it.

  Lawrence Jordan

  Art, School, Mean

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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