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“I never understood how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world, but now I understand.”

“I never understood jealousy, and I have no idea how some people find it attractive; denying freedom to the person you are supposed to love doesn’t really make sense, does it?”

Love Romance Freedom Love Quotes Lovers Jealousy Romance Novels Jealousy Quotes

Author:Elen Chase

Source: When we were sea and stars

“I never understood liberal Jews blaming Israel, you know, supporting Palestinians. I've never understood it, until I spoke once to a man named Norman Podhoretz, and he said to me, "Many of you refer to liberal Jews that way. They're not Jews. They are liberals. Liberalism is what is first and foremost in their identity. The fact that they are Jews is not paramount or prominent. It's secondary - and, in many cases, even tertiary - to their identity."”

Knows Men Way Firsts Said Facts Cases Identity Understood Blame Jew Israel Liberalism Spokes Palestinian Prominent Paramount

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.”

Information Amount Understood Noise Minimum Maximum Conveying

Author:Quentin Crisp

“I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.”

People Understood Bookshelves

Author:George Plimpton

“I never understood people who said their greatest fear was public speaking, or spiders, or any of the other minor terrors. How could you fear anything more than death? Everything else offered moments of escape: a paralyzed man could still read Dickens; a man in the grips of dementia might have flashes of the must absurd beauty.”

People Men Said Stills Moments Might Understood Terror Absurd Flash Minors Spiders Public Speaking Dickens Dementia Paralyzed Greatest Fear

Author:David Benioff

“I never understood redemption when I was young. Even before I was an atheist, I always thought with the prodigal son, "well, why's he getting the special treatment?"”

Wells Young Special Son Understood Atheist Redemption Treatment Prodigals Prodigal Son Special Treatment

Author:Ricky Gervais

“I never understood retirement. What is the attraction of retirement? I go down there to Florida and look around and I said, my God, who wants this? Not me.”

Want Looks Said Understood Attraction Retirement Florida

Author:Andy Rooney

“I never understood society. i undersand that it works somehow and that it functions as a reality and that its realities are necessary to keep us from worse realities. but all i sense are that are plenty of police and jails and judges and laws and that what is meant to protect me is breaking me down.”

Reality Law Judging Protect Understood Function Police Plenty Jail

Author:Charles Bukowski

“I never understood that everyone feels lost temporarily when they want to change their world and the state of their life”

Spiritual Self Discovery Self Exploration

Author:Priya Kumar

Source: The Perfect World: A Journey to Infinite Possibilities

“I never understood that if you sweat as much as I used to every night, you drain your body of salts. So I got very, very, seriously ill. I got to the stage where I was almost hospitalized with serious problems.”

Ifs Problem Body Used Night Stage Serious Understood Ill Your Body Sweat Salt Every Night Drains

Author:Roger Daltrey

“I never understood that line. The point was to inhale. That was the point.”

Lines Understood Marijuana Cannabis Inhale

Author:Barack Obama

“I never understood the concept of showing everything in the trailer. Why go to a movie if there's no surprise? I can't do it like that.”

Ifs I Can Understood Concepts Surprise Trailers

Author:Spike Lee

“I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.”

Ideas Goal Understood Relate Slow Down Good And Bad Mellow Slowing

Author:Diane Keaton

“I never understood the low art/high art distinction.”

Art Lows Understood Distinction High Art

Author:Matt Tong

“I never understood the low art/high art distinction. I think there's real currency in pop culture. We read trashy magazines as much as the next person. So I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. That low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm supposed to think.”

Thinking Art Real Culture Listening Currency Pop Culture

Author:Kele Okereke

“I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.”

Needs Would Be Audience Music Is Understood Extremes

Author:Igor Stravinsky

“I never understood the nudity thing. I’m so envious of people who can walk around naked.”

People Walks Understood Naked Envious Nudity

Author:Robert Pattinson

“I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy”

Understood Positivity Being Sad Choose To Be Happy

Author:Megan McCafferty

Source: Second Helpings: A Jessica Darling Novel

“I never understood the point of juicing - I always thought I could get enough nutrients from eating fruit and vegetables - but now I'm a convert.”

Enough Eating Understood Fruit Vegetables Nutrients Fruits And Vegetables

Author:Thandie Newton

“I never understood the term 'co-dependent'," she said. "Isn't that the nature of being human, to depend on each other?”

Relationship

Author:Sarah McColl

Source: Joy Enough: A Memoir

“I never understood the theory, once popular among doctors, that blamed mental disorders on too little or too much mother love. My own mother was my darling.”

Littles Mother My Own Too Much Theory Understood Doctors Disorder Darling Mother Love Mental Disorder

Author:Gene Tierney

Source: Self-portrait

“I never understood the whole point of opposing or hating someone else's happiness.”

Whole Hate Understood Opposing Hating Someone

Author:Seimone Augustus

“I never understood until I was age 9 when I found out why my parents fought every second seeing each other's faces. Age 9 is when I found out what depression is. It's not only a storm that passes by it's also those happy memories and you end up with the sad ones.”

Sadness Depression

Author:Zeina Infante

“I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break”

Break Understood

Author:Morton Feldman

“I never understood where the satisfaction is when you're missing the pleasure of conquest.”

Pleasure Missing Understood Satisfaction Conquest

Author:Silvio Berlusconi

“I never understood whether the word 'amnesty' is correct or not. Maybe I am not very intelligent but I checked the dictionary to find the meaning.”

Understood Intelligent Dictionary Amnesty

Author:Kapil Dev

“I never understood why anyone would do magazines. Like, why would someone put their face out there so much? It's because those people reading magazines will go see the movie, so you do it.”

People Faces Reading Understood Magazines Reading Magazines

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't realize you're on the floor.”

Sex Realizing Understood I Realized

Author:David Levithan

Source: The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel

“I never understood why, but the best of girls like gangsters. This was something that was always odd to me. Here, you have fine working girls who are involved with someone who isn’t working, just sitting on the blocks all day with a big gun in his waist. For some girls, they like that. I don’t know why. Scrooge, former leader of the Rebellion Raiders street gang that once boasted of having some ten thousand members”

Respect Sex Appeal Bad Boys Street Fame Out Laws Gang Attraction Gang Life Style Ladies And Gangsters

Author:Drexel Deal

Source: The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father

“I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.”

Dark Hell Understood Bent Lanes Kent Lois Lane

Author:Audrey Niffenegger

Source: The Time Traveler's Wife

“I never understood why people take drugs. They're habit forming and they can kill you. I didn't need anything to pep me up or make me feel more creative, and I didn't need them to help me with women.”

People Needs Feels Helping Creative Habit Drug Understood Help Me Pep

Author:Stan Lee

“I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks.”

School Understood Hated Metals Punk

Author:Trevor Dunn

“I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'”

Way Wells Artist Names My Own Understood Died Keep Going Blank Epitaph Tombstone Headstone Figments

Author:Andy Warhol

Source: Andy Warhol: a retrospective

“I never understood why you tried so hard to fit in, when you were obviously meant to stand out.”

Hard Fit Understood Standing Out

Author:Tonya Hurley

“I never understood why you would ever feel the need to shoot the fish in the barrel. I mean, they're in a barrel, you've already caught them. The hard work's done, they can't escape. So if you want them dead, just drain the water out. Why bring guns into it?”

Ifs Want Needs Feels Mean Hard Done Water Hard Work Understood Gun Caught Fishes Drains Barrels Redundancy

Author:Craig Silvey

Source: Jasper Jones

“I never use a computer.”

Use Computer Mathematics Mathematical

Author:Andrew Wiles

“I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?”

Doe Book Use Musical Score Lions Cages Orchestra Conducting Dimitri

Author:Dimitris Mitropoulos

“I never use a telephoto lens. I need to be close to people. I need their complicity; I need them to be aware that I am there taking their picture. I hate paparazzi.”

People Needs Use Hate I Hate Lenses Paparazzi Complicity

Author:Graciela Iturbide

“I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.”

Thinking Use Paint Starting Abstract Starting Point

Author:Adolph Gottlieb

Source: Adolph Gottlieb

“I never use notes, they interfere with me.”

Use Leadership Inspiring Notes Interfere Presentation Skills

Author:Ken Blanchard

“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading through my own books, and have been unable to find any paradox. In fact, that thing is quite tragic, and some day I shall hope to write an epic called 'Paradox Lost'.”

Paradox Chesterton

Author:G.K. Chesterton

“I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards the music that I do, and the subject that I'm speaking of at that time.”

People Kind Use Feelings Subjects Musician Great Music Great Musician

Author:Angelique Kidjo

“I never use soundtrack; it is always part of the story.”

Stories Use Soundtracks

Author:Michael Haneke

“I never use that word, retire.”

Use Retiring

Author:B. B. King

“I never use the concept, multipolar. I use multilateral. Because we have only one global power: whether you like it or not, this is the United States.”

States Use United United States Communication Concepts You Like It

Author:Joschka Fischer

“I never use the word "drug" without defining it. I define it exactly the way the DEA defines it, "a chemical compound capable of reproduction in standardized dosages." I explain that marijuana is a plant with many drugs in it, just like any other plant.”

Way War Use Drug Capable Plant Chemicals Marijuana Users Defining Compounds Reproduction Dosage Chemical Compounds

Author:Carl E. Olson

“I never use the word “cheap.” Instead, I say, “more affordable.” Never detract from what you can add to in measure!”

Class Being Classy

Author:C. JoyBell C.

“I never use the word nation in speaking of the United States. I always use the word Union or Confederacy. We are not a nation but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign States.”

States Use Nations United United States Equal Unions Unity Sovereign

Author:John C. Calhoun

“I never use the word 'sex' in my novels - that is not what romance is about. It's about love and emotion. All my stories were different but they all had a happy ending - the perfect finish to any romance.”

Writing

Author:Jean S. MacLeod

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