Understood Quotes

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Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it. — Jules Verne
Dad never understood why Ridley wanted to go to art school, and then I came along six years later and wanted to do the same… — Tony Scott
I make movies in order to make things understood, not to be shocking. — Bernardo Bertolucci
I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood what you could do… — Shane Carruth
I never really understood who the Magi were as a child. What is a Magi? Not a word I would use, but a magpie I… — Michael Leunig
The defense of the West Bank by Arab forces would be a truly suicidal enterprise. The late King Hussein understood these facts well. Until 1967,… — Martin Van Creveld
Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood. — Tom Chatfield
I wanted to make a film about my dad, a sort of love letter, and explain what I understood of his cinema, which was so… — Isabella Rossellini
I think of my father and how confused he was by me. He understood my love for theater, and he understood that New York City… — Spalding Gray
I never understood actors who could just wait around. — Scott Eastwood
When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent. — John Ortberg
Pastors have historically understood their primary battle to be not the battle to build a big church, but the battle against the power of sin. — John Ortberg
I hope to be remembered as someone who promoted positive change in Mexican business and society - even if this is not currently understood. — Ricardo Salinas Pliego
Increasing extremism - across Africa and the world - must be understood in the context of the failure of our leaders properly to manage diversity… — Mo Ibrahim
Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought. — Leonard Mlodinow
I felt such a deep connection with dolphins. I felt like they were the only ones who understood me. — Lykke Li
Growing up in Beirut, I used to go to the souks with my mother to buy fabrics... I understood fashion at an early age, and… — Reem Acra
All right-wing antigovernment rage in America bears a racial component, because liberalism is understood, consciously or unconsciously, as the ideology that steals from hard-working, taxpaying… — Rick Perlstein
What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language… — Carl Maria von Weber
Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its own… — Harold E. Varmus
Whatever one wants to say about the conduct of the Iraq War, going to war to remove Saddam Hussein in 2003 was a necessary act.… — Arthur L. Herman
Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon. — Mitch Kapor
Information is crucial to our biological substance - our genetic code is information. But before 1950, it was not obvious that inheritance had anything to… — James Gleick
The bubble, as investing phenomenon, has been well studied ever since the 17th-century tulip bulb frenzy. Its counterpart in bear markets is not well understood. — Kenneth Fisher
Before I really even understood what the term meant, I wanted to be wealthy. I wanted to be able to drive the beautiful old Rolls-Royces… — John Caudwell

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