Understood Quotes

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Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they… — Val Kilmer
I have never understood the Iowa caucus. — Larry King
A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of… — Henry A. Kissinger
My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in… — Emeril Lagasse
I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I… — Shia LaBeouf
Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. — R. D. Laing
I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just… — Hedy Lamarr
The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images. — Christopher Lasch
You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal. — Avril Lavigne
I was signed by L.A. Reid on Arista Records when I was 16. He understood me and believed in me. Arista folded and I got… — Avril Lavigne
We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as… — Hugh Leonard
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. — Doris Lessing
Margaret Thatcher was a 20th century visionary who understood the power of individual freedom versus the tyranny of government collectivism. She was a loyal supporter… — Joe Lhota
We all put obstacles in our own path toward personal style, myself included. If we understood why we constructed these practical and emotional obstacles, we… — Stacy London
In Hollywood, more often than not, they're making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire story is understood.… — David Lynch
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so… — James Madison
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies… — Horace Mann
If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever… — Murray Gell-Mann
The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together. If we truly… — Wynton Marsalis
If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the essential reality we know, then what happens… — Jon Meacham

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