I Understood Quotes
249 quotes by 219 authors
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My dad would throw me in the picture if they needed an extra. From an early age, I understood the concept that, if you're not…
— Ansel Elgort
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A sense of community has always been important to me. I understood very early that I could not grow as an artist or as a…
— Jerry Pinkney
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I thought I understood what was best. I knew too little and believed too soon.
— Gloria Whelan
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I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.
— Sonia Sotomayor
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I understood when I was just a child that without water, everything dies. I didn't understand until much later that no one "owns" water. It…
— Marq de Villiers
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The infinitesimal seedlings became a forest of trees that grew courteously, correcting the distances between themselves as they shaped themselves to the promptings of available…
— William Wilson
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As an engineer, I understood that the natural world operated according to fixed laws. Through my studies, I came to realize that there were, likewise,…
— Charles Koch
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Because I grew up in Chicago, I didn't have an emotional relationship to segregation. I understood the facts and stories, but there was not an…
— Diane Nash
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Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was…
— Anne Michaels
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When I understood the rudiments of what nanotech was all about, I knew I wanted to participate.
— Bernard Marcus
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I understood early that beauty was power.
— Kevyn Aucoin
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I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.
— Mary Cheney
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We always had dogs,so I understood all the joy and the love animals are capable of giving. It's crazy to me that some people have…
— Alicia Silverstone
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I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn't let it happen because I changed my compass along the way.
— Adam Braun
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Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother.
— Jeffrey Jones
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My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church.
— Lee Greenwood
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I understood from an early age what being competitive means.
— Tamara Ecclestone
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I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one.
— Jean Gabin
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I saw with so many of the gay couples, they were so devoted to another. I saw so much love. When this hearing was over,…
— Wade Kach
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I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to…
— Whitfield Diffie
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