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When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And… — Katey Sagal
If you think about Shakespeare, you remember Richard III and Macbeth before you remember Ferdinand, whose role is just to fall in love and be… — Mark Strong
Human beings, when they encounter that which can't be understood, either run away from it, run towards it blindly, or just rationalize it out of… — Frederick Lenz
Happiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe. — Frederick Lenz
Those who say that climate change doesn't exist are being understood as the flat-earthers that they are, as the people who deny the link between… — Nicholas Stern
One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what… — Tom Skerritt
Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more… — Galina Vishnevskaya
Hubbard set up the Church of Scientology in Hollywood in 1954 for a reason. He understood that celebrity was increasingly a feature of American public… — Lawrence Wright
'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth' is linked in… — Michel Foucault
I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages - I am… — Kenneth Patchen
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him. — Criss Jami
In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood. — Anson Mount
I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that there is a… — Joe Mantello
I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men. — Allison Pearson
I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them. — Spalding Gray
I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally. — Arsenio Hall
No one can develop freely in this world and find a full life without feeling understood by at least one person. — Paul Tournier
We have this wonderful language and we don't appreciate it. That's old-fashioned me, but when I went to school, everyone had elocution lessons, not to… — Penelope Keith
Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence. — Lord Byron
The more clearly a principle is understood by the intellect, the more inexcusable is the neglect to put it into practice. — Allan Kardec

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