Understood Quotes
2381 Understood quotes by 1698 unique authors
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I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God,…
— Deb Caletti
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As we mature through the years, we access more deeply information we had only abstractly understood before.
— Marianne Williamson
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Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence…
— Noam Chomsky
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As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions…
— Noam Chomsky
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Being a teen idol or being a heartthrob on all the magazines, with Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, and Scott Baio - it was embarrassing! I…
— Willie Aames
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What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.
— Stephen Covey
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If human language, with its logic, is the way God has given us to understand the world, then the Torah must be understood in that…
— David Novak
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Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterprise.
— Charles H. Townes
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You can find all types of men anywhere, but a smart man will always make you feel important and understood. And a woman can always…
— James Marsden
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I never understood the hit-single, quick-success, get-airplay mentality.
— Nikki Sixx
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TIVO was a big shift in how people watched TV, but everyone understood the concept of TV. No one really understands the concept of, well…
— Anne Wojcicki
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My mother is extraordinary. She understood me and never tried to hold me back.
— Robbie Robertson
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I was a lot more cultured than the other kids in my high school. Because I traveled, I understood different cultures and had a more…
— Tony Hawk
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Only if we accept the proposition that the state of Israel is the exclusive and legitimate representative of the Jewish people would a movement calling…
— Judith Butler
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In the fall of 1978, I left the religious, conservative, biracial, slow-paced culture of South Carolina for the secular, liberal, multi-ethnic, intense culture of Princeton…
— Virginia Postrel
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We do care about planets like the Earth because by now we understood that life as a chemical system really needs a smaller planet with…
— Dimitar Sasselov
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Most of our brain cells are glial cells, once thought to be mere support cells, but now understood as having a critical role in brain…
— Thomas R. Insel
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Richard Holbrooke is known for many things, but I will remember him as an impressive, sometimes even intimidating diplomat who understood the value of culture…
— Cynthia P. Schneider
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I know that many people kill off their real personality just to fit into this society, but why do we have to compromise? I never…
— Novala Takemoto
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I foresaw the financial crisis. I get messages in my sleep, in pictures and words. I understood that I have a mission and a role…
— Shari Arison
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I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote about butterfly collecting,…
— John le Carre
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Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at…
— Robert Dallek
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When I was young, clothes were really just about what fit, because Ashley and I were so tiny. So I understood fit before I understood…
— Mary-Kate Olsen
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I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, but not the soul.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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For me, take Tiger Woods. I always thought he was great, but I never truly understood how good he was until I had the chance…
— Larry Fitzgerald
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