Understood Quotes
2381 quotes by 1743 authors
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When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact,…
— Antonin Artaud
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My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So,…
— Lee Atwater
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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
— Margaret Atwood
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I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and…
— Kevin Bacon
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I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of…
— Javier Bardem
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth…
— Roland Barthes
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While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four…
— John Adams
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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.
— Martha Beck
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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support…
— Theodore Bikel
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I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.
— Jacqueline Bisset
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Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood.
— Jacqueline Bisset
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I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
— Bjork
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One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has…
— Mary J. Blige
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The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.
— Ben Affleck
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If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
— Niels Bohr
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If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
— Niels Bohr
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
— Niels Bohr
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I wasn't funny as a kid. I remember enjoying comedians, but I never understood it was a job choice or a profession.
— Elayne Boosler
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People never understood that there was Brian and The Boz. They were two completely different people.
— Brian Bosworth
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