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There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.
What people don't understand is that calling someone too skinny is the same as calling someone too fat; it's not a nice feeling.
I feel like I'm good with girls. I understand them and am good at loving them. I've always felt like that's been natural for me.
I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
I understand I'm not everyone's cup of tea, and I certainly don't want everyone to look like me. I really only dress for myself.
God never does anything wrong. He knows what is best for me. No man can understand God, or know why He deals with us as He does.
Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
I believe if we only are talking to people who agree with us, we are failing in some way to understand our world and our country.
It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
I've never been interested in philosophy, but some of Jung's ideas seem useful in helping people understand pictures and so forth.
It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
We understand bringing girls into the tech space is about giving them skills to create social impact and change in their community.
You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.
Courage is not always about action. It takes courage to do nothing rather than do something that you do not believe in or understand.
No one can understand how close a marriage actually is. You just don't know: with a husband and wife, they have a special connection.
If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates', then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.
On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.
People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.
You have to understand that teaching online is different, just like movies are different from the stage and TV is different from radio.
I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
It's very important to me that people accept me as a transgendered female. But it's ridiculous to a lot of people and I understand that.
I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head nor tail out of it.
I'm not the only one that people try to put in a box. I think it's easier for people to understand things when they can categorize them.
If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.
The challenge in a startup is you hit a lot of turbulence, and you want people who understand that it's just turbulence and not a crisis.
Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.
Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
New highways, ports, and runways appear economically foolish if we don't understand the economic growth that flows from such investments.
Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and concrete.
Top athletes understand that to play at their best, they must alternate periods of intense performance with periods of strategic renewal.
What most did not understand then was that I was not only married to the man I loved, but I was also married to the movement that I loved.
Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
I want to stay humble, but I have to talk because the other guys talk too much, and... I understand the crazy power the UFC PR machine has.
Communities of color don't understand what it means to be a police officer, the fear that police officers have in just being on the streets.
Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.
I understand I'm a sinner. I'm not perfect, and I need a Savior, and that I'm not going to make it to Heaven on merits and doing good things.
In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.
For me, at least, much of the German I see and hear sounds stranger than Swedish, a language of which I unfortunately understand very little.
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.