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“My audience is made up of two groups of people. The first group includes people whose roots are deep in the Christian faith, but for whom the traditional symbols, as traditionally understood, no longer make sense. The other audience is the audience that has left. I call them the Church Alumni Association, citizens of the secular city. They are a bit nostalgic about this faith of their childhood, but they aren't really interested in trotting it out or becoming involved with it again as it is presently organized.”

“A half-century before Madonna, Gypsy [Rose Lee] understood how to make performance out of desire, how to exploit the very human and eternal instinct to always want most what we'll never have.”

Want Humans Desire Half Century Eternal Understood Performances Rose Instinct Exploits Gypsy

Author:Karen Abbott

“I'm fascinated with actors, and I've never quite understood the process.”

Actors Process Understood Fascinated Never Quit

Author:George Saunders

“But if I did read, say, [Maurice] Merleau-Ponty, for instance, it always seemed to me that the parts that I understood in what he was talking about - and I read him because - well, he wrote a book, well, the Phenomenology of Perception [New York: Humanities Press, 1962]. And it seemed to me that perception had a lot do with how we take in art.”

Ifs Wells Art Book Humanity Talking New York Perception Understood Presses Instance Phenomenology

Author:Robert Barry

“The more respect I had for myself, and the more I took care of myself, the more I understood what I needed out of a partner.”

Care Needed Understood Partners

Author:Reese Witherspoon

“I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that were safe to hold what I felt.”

World Writing Made Matter Form Language Felt Safe Understood Poetry Is Paradigm Writing Poetry

Author:Grace Cavalieri

“I actually went on lectures at Harvard, Stanford, Oxford and all the business schools eight years ago, explaining what the implications were and how the platforms could be powerful in creating the narrative of your brand and mobilizing your life so that you become humanized as well. I understood that and thought that was really empowering, not only to artists, but to brands as well and in general.”

Years Wells School Artist Powerful Creating Understood Years Ago Eight Brands Narrative Empowering Platforms Explaining Lectures Implications Harvard Oxford Stanford Business School

Author:MC Hammer

“The sudden death of a partner while expecting a child is so universally understood as awful that I don't think anyone with any other weight to carry is going to get to same kind of sympathy - except perhaps people who lose a child.”

People Thinking Kind Children Loses Understood Weight Partners Awful Expecting Sudden Death

Author:Carolyn Hax

“I feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age.”

Feels Real Age Language Understood Mediums Fluidity

Author:Daniel Clowes

“To be truly seen and understood - in all our innocence and glory and yes, our brokenness, too - is to be delivered into the spiritual ethers where both seen and seer are healed.”

Spiritual Glory Understood Innocence Healed Brokenness Seers

Author:Marianne Williamson

“For decades, I thought that scientific truth, solid economic case studies, and common sense were enough to bring about change on the environmental front. After all, the data is so compelling! I thought that if people just understood the severity of today's environmental threats and knew about available solutions, those solutions would happen. Not so.”

“I think it is now widely understood that the so-called "War on Drugs" has largely been a failure. Too many people have developed criminal records for smoking marijuana. Too many people have gone to jail for nonviolent crimes. So I think it's important for us to rethink the war on drugs.”

People Thinking Important War Gone Records Crime Drug Understood Criminals Smoking Jail Marijuana War On Drugs

Author:Bernie Sanders

“[Nelson] Mandela was very keen not to be understood as an exceptional person.”

Persons Understood Exceptional Nelson

Author:Kumi Naidoo

“When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.”

People Understood Appreciation Treated Embarrassing Retired

Author:Michael Jordan

“I have been a vegetarian for forty-two years. I did it because I didn't want animals to die so I could eat. Then, eight to ten years ago, when I found out the life of a dairy cow is way worse than the life of a beef cow, I understood I had to switch to complete veganism. Otherwise, I would be very inconsistent in my beliefs that animals shouldn't be abused for food.”

Way Want Years Has Beens Two Would Be Dies Found Belief Animal Ten Understood Years Ago Eight Forty Two Years Vegetarian Cows Veganism Beef Inconsistent Dairy Dairy Cows

Author:Sam Simon

“When yoga is understood in its totality, it is neither a form of exercise, nor is it an esoteric philosophy or religion; it is a practical and comprehensive science for realizing life's ultimate aims.”

Philosophy Form Realizing Exercise Understood Yoga Ultimate Aim Practicals Comprehensive Totality Esoteric

Author:Rod Stryker

“My son is now fourteen, and from the moment he was born, I understood that forevermore my heart would be walking around outside my body.”

Heart Moments Body Would Be Born Son My Heart Walking Understood My Son Fourteen

Author:Dani Shapiro

“I just couldn't believe that it [Into the Forest script] had fallen into my lap, because I felt so incredibly connected to my character, and I understood her, and I really...I haven't had that feeling about a script since I had read Thirteen or The Wrestler when I was just like, "No one else can do this." I just feel so passionate about it.”

Feels Believe Character Feelings Felt Can Do Havens Understood Scripts Passionate Connected Forests Fallen Lap Thirteen Wrestler

Author:Evan Rachel Wood

“It's a tract against capital punishment in the genre of Swift's Modest Proposal. I was simply following a formula to its logical conclusion. Some people appear to have understood it. The publication of Naked Lunch in England practically coincided with their abolition of capital punishment. The book obviously had a certain effect.”

People Book Certain Effects Understood England Following Punishment Naked Conclusion Genre Logical Formulas Lunch Modest Proposal Publication Abolition Capital Punishment

Author:William S. Burroughs

“Know your audience. If I don't share in a way that will be understood, I lose my ability to connect.”

Ifs Knows Way Loses Ability Audience Share Understood

Author:Jennifer Widerstrom

“Fashion is also a form of art, and like every kind of art, it has its own way of expression. In other words, if a dress looks better on a thin girl, on a catwalk, during a very specific moment of time and space then it's represented as part of a "fashion Show". It is after all a "Show" and it has to be understood by people that it is a "show" and not real life.”

People Ifs Way Looks Kind Art Real Moments Shows Form Girl Space Fashion Expression Understood Dresses Real Life Time And Space Fashion Show Catwalk

Author:Sonia Rykiel

“You have to answer the question, like it or not. And the questions deserve a valid legal response, even if the response isn't one that will be easily understood. You have an obligation as a member of the court to do what you are bound to do under federal law, even if it isn't an attractive resolution from a public standpoint.”

Ifs Law Answers Members Understood Deserve Court Response Bounds Obligation Attractive Resolution Standpoint

Author:Sandra Day O'Connor

“I don't know any other job that the off-the-field issues - especially something personal like that - affects your job. But as far as the parenting lesson, no [I understood that]. To me it was so simple, it was a situation where I disciplined my child and it didn't turn out the way I wanted.”

Knows Way Children Wanted Jobs Turns Simple Situation Issues Fields Lessons Understood My Children

Author:Adrian Peterson

“If I write about something that I've experienced and somebody goes, "Oh my God, I feel the exact same way," then both of us are connected, and when you feel connected to people, you feel understood. You feel a sense of purpose.”

People Ifs Way Feels Writing Purpose Understood Connected

Author:Dan Mangan

“Both [Donald] Trump and Bernie [Sanders] got to this idea of the vanishing middle class sooner and with more passion than more mainstream politicians, and benefited from it. The difference, of course, is that Bernie understood this in a more compassionate framework, and talked about it in conjunction with a revitalization of another part of the American project, which is the notion that we are all created equal, and that our laws and culture and action ought to reflect that.”

“Education must be understood as growth, or the facilitation of growth.”

Growth Understood

Author:John Dewey

“I definitely understood the feeling of moving to Los Angeles and having a dream to be an actor in films and to get to be a part of things that I loved and inspire people in some way.”

People Way Feelings Dream Film Moving Actors Inspire Understood Los Angeles

Author:Emma Stone

“There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and makes a man understood and valued in all countries, and by all nations; it is the philosopher's stone, that turns all metals, and even stones, into gold, and suffers not want to break into its dwelling; it is the northwest passage, that brings the merchant's ships as soon to him as he can desire: in a word, it conquers all enemies, and makes fortune itself pay contribution.”

“We nearly always make ourselves masters of those whom we know well, because he who is thoroughly understood is in some sense subject to those who understand him.”

Knows Wells Understanding Subjects Masters Understood

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“I do not oppose violence simply because it is counterproductive. I oppose it because it betrays animal rights philosophy. Those who resort to such tactics really have not understood that animal rights is about the extension of moral concern to all sentient beings--humans obviously included.”

Humans Philosophy Animal Moral Rights Violence Understood Concern Animal Rights Betray Extensions Tactics Resorts Sentient Beings Counterproductive

Author:Andrew Linzey

“I would like people to feel that they've understood something more about Siena than the usual Palio as seen by tourists. It is full of beauty, romance and tradition, but also power, schemes and bribery. It's Italy in a nutshell, with all its incredible mixture of beauty and betrayal.”

People Feels Romance Understood Tradition Incredibles Betrayal Usual Schemes Mixtures Tourists Bribery

Author:Cosima Spender

“I needed to find out what my goals were and what my mission was. After some quiet time and just seeking the Lord, He brought some people to the table that understood where I was trying to go.”

People Trying Goal Lord Needed Quiet Understood Tables Seeking Missions Quiet Time

Author:Shonlock

“Creating a portrait of a female point of view in an environment that we've pretty much exclusively understood through a male perspective - "Wall Street," "Wolf of Wall Street," "Arbitrage" - etc. was beyond exciting for me. It felt downright necessary. And I felt really inspired by Alysia Reiner and Sarah Megan Thomas' agenda in telling these types of unique, feminist stories. [Both of them produced and acted in "Equity."]”

Stories Felt Views Environment Streets Perspective Wall Type Creating Unique Understood Female Exciting Inspired Males Feminist Point Of View Etc Agendas Portraits Equity Arbitrage

Author:Meera Menon

“I knew no one in this business, and the only acting I'd ever done was in a first-grade play. I understood some of my talents - growing up playing piano, and my operatic voice led me to All-State in my first, and only, year of singing - but I didn't yet know all of my capacities. My parents felt helpless, as they knew nothing about this world and couldn't help me in any way except through pure love.”

“I was risking a very promising and lucrative future in the business world that I was all set up to receive. I stepped out completely on faith. But when I engaged with an audience for the first time, I was right at home. I felt safe, and all of my senses worked together with a certain elegance. I understood flow in the most profound way. I knew then that I had to follow my heart.”

World Way Firsts Heart Home Together Certain Felt Audience My Heart Safe Understood First Time Flow Profound Senses Engaged Elegance Business World

Author:Idara Victor

“I was aware of it but I think I was aware of it abstractly, theoretically. You know I understood who Edward Snowden was and what he did but I didn't really see the relevance that it bore in my life and doing film changed that tune pretty quick.”

Thinking Knows Film Changed Understood Tunes Bores Relevance Snowden

Author:Zachary Quinto

“Signs of a poorly understood but treatable house fire requires action, not inaction.”

Action House Fire Understood Inaction House Fires

Author:Graciela Chichilnisky

“Political parties often take advantage of denial and fear in a moment of change. This is a well understood phenomenon that often leads to scapegoat-ism: blaming outsiders, such as immigrants, or racial and religious minorities. The phenomenon is behind Brexit and the violence in the political cycles in the US and EU.”

Wells Moments Political Religious Party Behinds Violence Understood Advantage Blame Denial Minorities Immigrants Cycles Phenomenon Outsiders Political Parties Isms Scapegoat

Author:Graciela Chichilnisky

“If you can make any religion look idiotic, chances are you haven't understood that religion.”

Ifs Looks Chance Havens Understood Chances Are Idiotic

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“I had left graduate school, determined that I wasn't going to do anything else to "save the world" until I understood how I could get at the underlying causes of deepening suffering. To do that, I had to start by admitting that I didn't know.”

Knows World School Suffering Left Causes Understood Determined Graduates Save The World Admitting Graduate School

Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“When Marx, in the Theses on Feuerbach, says that only idealism up to now has understood the active side of material Praxis, what he says is more true of Fichte than of any other philosopher in the classical German tradition.”

Sides Materials Understood Tradition Philosopher Active Idealism Thesis Praxis

Author:Allen W. Wood

“It never really understood its own situational luxury. And I think that by and large the privilege of being Kehinde Wiley in the 21st century, making these high-priced luxury goods, traveling the world, pointing at these people, behooves me to have a point of view and to say something about it.”

People Thinking World Views Century Understood Privilege Point Of View Luxury Goods 21st Century Pointing Luxury Goods

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“There are many things that we still don't understand about the universe, right? Einstein struggled to bring quantum mechanics and gravity together and never succeeded, and that's a problem that to this day is not well understood. Well, maybe to comprehend some of these things, we need to augment our intelligence. If we do, who knows?”

Ifs Knows Needs Wells Stills Problem Together Universe Understood This Day Gravity Quantum Mechanic Quantum Mechanics

Author:Edward Boyden

“The whole idea of what is evidence for causation in epidemiology cannot be separated from tTindustry understood that if they could raise doubt about how you could conclude something caused cancer, that they put so much effort into getting so many receptive public health authorities to say, "Well, causation requires that these five things be met." So that is, in fact, nonsense.”

Ifs Wells Ideas Whole Facts Effort Doubt Five Mets Authority Understood Evidence Raises Cancer Nonsense Public Health Receptive Causation Epidemiology

Author:Devra Davis

“There's Hobbes, who understood in the 1640s that the sovereign is not an appointee of God, or even a figure of superior virtue and wisdom, but just a functional device whose role is to keep people from hurting and killing each other.”

People Hurt Roles Virtue Figures Understood Killing Superiors Devices Sovereign Hobbes Killing Each Other

Author:Catherine Wilson

“I actually think if the American people understood what was going on instead of just being told tidbits by this administration, they would actually be a lot more supportive of the boots on the ground.”

People Ifs Thinking Understood Administration Boots Just Being Supportive

Author:John McCain

“The best outcomes that are seen for therapy intervention and for other psychological interventions is where the therapist really connects and the person really feels understood. That matters often even more than the technique.”

Feels Persons Matter Understood Technique Psychological Therapy Outcomes Intervention Therapists

Author:Maia Szalavitz

“Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality.”

Reality Fiction Understood Concepts Science Fiction Speculation

Author:Michael Helm

“Remember, Donald [Trump] started his career back in 1973 being sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination because he would not rent apartments in one of his developments to African-Americans, and he made sure that the people who worked for him understood that was the policy. He actually was sued twice by the Justice Department.”

People Made Remember Justice Careers Policy Development Trump Understood Discrimination African American Department Apartment Racial Discrimination

Author:Hillary Clinton

“We need to really use the full force of diplomacy. And we need to be seen and understood to be on the side of diplomacy and international law.”

Needs Use Law Force Sides Understood International Diplomacy International Law

Author:Jill Stein

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