Understood Quotes
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Understand Quotes
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T.S. Eliot
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Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...
Lawrence Clark Powell
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Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood
Laurence Sterne
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Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve
Karl Popper
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Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward.
Soren Kierkegaard
Subject: Experience QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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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 often bound up in them.
Horace Mann
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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie
Subject: Science QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war
Confucius
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Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood
Henry Miller
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For several years I worried a lot about protecting an image, but today I have understood that the image cannot be preconceived.
Shakira
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If you understood what Communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that one day we would become Communist. (speaking to students at the University of Michigan in 1970)
Jane Fonda
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From an early age I understood that cooking was never going to be a job, it`s a passion. Poor old Antony Worrall Thompson, poor old Delia Smith, I don`t think the penny`s dropped yet!
Gordon Ramsay
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(on Star Wars) - "I understood the impact of those movies because I had young children who watched them religiously. I saw the Star Wars films so often in my house that I ended up knowing all of the other actors lines."
Harrison Ford
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There are a lot of sacrifices a mother makes when she`s raising a child by herself. I saw it when I was growing up, watching all my mother did for me. But it wasn`t until recently that I fully understood the price she paid because of how we had to struggl...
Christina Applegate
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I`m so naive about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn`t understand, she had to explain: `That`s like three Mercedes.` Then I understood. (1981)
Brooke Shields
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On writing his first Star Trek book: "People were worried that somehow, by writing this book I was going to give up that mystery of Garak, and Garak now was going to be completely understood, but I think just the opposite happened."
Andrew Robinson
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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
Akira Kurosawa
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[on turning down the role of Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)] Yeah, well, I never understood it. I read the book. I read the script. I saw the movie. I still don`t understand it.
Sean Connery
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I grew up with Johnny and Tim`s films -- like Edward Scissorhands and Sleepy Hollow -- when I was first realizing that I really liked films and understood what a good film was.
Jamie Campbell Bower
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If you don`t have a father, you don`t miss it, because you don`t know what it is. It was really only when I married Wyatt Cooper that I understood what it was like to have a father, because he was just an extraordinary father.
Gloria Vanderbilt
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For me, doing Wonderland (2003) wasn`t about strategy. The story was compelling, it was written really well, I thought I understood the characters, and I just wanted to be in it. I`ve never gone wrong whenever I`ve done that, and I haven`t done that a lot...
Lisa Kudrow
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I`ve never understood that aspect of DVDs, where you suddenly put back the things you took out that could go. Why ruin your movie? With material that you`ve taken out? I never get that. I don`t have that impulse... To put them back seems very unpleasant t...
Mike Nichols
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I`m a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother`s group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I`m a woman`s woman. I never understood women who don`t have woman friends.
Naomi Watts
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I consider Peter Finch and James Mason the two best English actors of the 1960s. But I never understood Finch. How could he do something as beautiful as "Sunday, Bloody Sunday," but also make all that other shit? I mean he could read, couldn`t he?
Alan Bates
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Regarding the different reactions of Europeans and Americans to his film, "Jarhead" (2005): "I feel they`ve understood in Europe. In America, it`s like talking about a different movie. Fundamentally, Jarhead disobeys all the laws of American movies, and n...
Sam Mendes
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I allow myself to be understood as a colorful fragment in a drab world.
Errol Flynn
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I flew to England, and a week later I had the role. Then the next day, I didn`t. But I understood; like James Bond, Harry has to be British. On not getting Harry Potter
Liam Aiken
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When I did "Sesame Street" (1969), Elmo was not the worldwide phenomenon he is now. I understood Elmo was special, and I said that the only way I would do Sesame Street was with Elmo. Kevin Clash, the young man who did the voice for him, was a very sweet ...
Jamie Curtis
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(On seeing the Marlon Brando movie "Last Tango in Paris") "It was the first time that I understood that acting was an art form. It was not Clint Eastwood on a horse, Bob Hope in a road movie. It was not Don Knotts in The Incredible Mr. Limpet. These are f...
William Petersen
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After we did All the Real Girls, some guy asked me how I was going to go to Hollywood and hang on to my indie values. `Indie values`? There`s like 18 things wrong with that phrase, but I understood what he meant. If your value system is external to you, t...
Paul Schneider
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