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I claim that all those who think they can cherry-pick science simply don't understand how science works. That's what I claim. And if they did, they'd be less prone to just assert that somehow scientists are clueless.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science
Think
Those
Claim
Prone
Somehow
Simply
Understand
How
Scientists
Did
Just
Clueless
Less
Who
Works
Assert
I wish that people could understand that people need to laugh. They need to sing. They need to create their own joie de vivre.
Nell Carter
People
Wish
Own
Laugh
Could
Sing
Understand
Create
Need
After getting recognized in public from my picture on our pretzel bag, I can understand not wanting to be in the public eye. It has given me a public persona I had always avoided as a child. I do it because it's for a good cause.
Nell Newman
Good
Me
Cause
Picture
Our
Recognized
Eye
Given
Had
Bag
Because
Understand
Always
Child
Persona
Getting
Wanting
After
Public
Public Eye
Good Cause
Avoided
Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.
Nelson Goodman
Work
Achievement
Learning
School
Style
Painting
Add
Symphony
Ways
Recognize
See
Write
New
Read
Understand
Coming
Hear
Artist
New Ways
Unfamiliar
Cognitive
You go for an audition, and you meet a director, and you find that they don't want you. You have to have a pull with them: that they understand what you want to bring to it. That you don't want to be the pretty little thing.
Neve McIntosh
You
Director
Meet
Find
Pretty
Understand
Audition
Go
Want
Little
Them
Little Thing
Thing
Bring
Pull
The genius of guys like Lincoln and Reagan and FDR - the great communicator leaders - is that they're actually educators, so they understand when they use a phrase that they have to explain it, because, by definition, you won't understand it or they wouldn't need to be using it.
Newt Gingrich
Great
You
Genius
Definition
Phrase
Guys
Leaders
Like
Because
Understand
Reagan
Lincoln
Educators
Explain
Communicator
Use
Using
Actually
Need
When you come to America, you get to become an American, and Trump, who has grandparents who came to the U.S., should understand this as much as anybody.
Newt Gingrich
You
Become
Come
Understand
Came
Trump
America
Get
American
Anybody
Much
Should
Grandparents
Who
I have a sense of being at peace. I understand when you give the sign of peace, and when the priest says, 'Peace be with you,' in a way I never did 10 or 15 years ago. I have a deep personal sense of what that means.
Newt Gingrich
You
Peace
Sense
Way
Says
Sign
Give
Never
Priest
Understand
Years
Years Ago
Did
Personal
Being
Means
Deep
I was worried if you adopted a foster child, someone from the birth family could still come and take her back. I was afraid that any child in foster care might have suffered such trauma or neglect that she would be impossible to reach. I'm not proud of these fears. But I understand now when others ask me the same questions.
Nia Vardalos
Family
Me
You
Impossible
Care
Fears
Birth
Others
Back
Neglect
Worried
Would
Would-Be
Someone
Adopted
Could
Take
Come
Reach
She
Understand
Proud
Still
Questions
Child
Same
Any
Afraid
Might
Ask
Trauma
Foster
Now
Suffered
Her
We historians are increasingly using experimental psychology to understand the way we act. It is becoming very clear that our ability to evaluate risk is hedged by all sorts of cognitive biases. It's a miracle that we get anything right.
Niall Ferguson
Increasingly
Our
Way
Ability
Miracle
Risk
Clear
Biases
Sort
Understand
Becoming
Historians
Very
Get
Anything
Experimental
Psychology
Act
Evaluate
Using
Right
Cognitive
We cannot understand our humanity just by studying individuals.
Nicholas A. Christakis
Humanity
Our
We Cannot
Individuals
Studying
Understand
Just
Cannot
Often it's a lack of time, not taste, that leads someone to hire a decorator. A good decorator/client relationship should be like a marriage. The time one puts in needs to be extensive. One needs to listen to them and understand what they like and how they live.
Nicholas Haslam
Time
Good
Needs
Relationship
Marriage
Live
Someone
Puts
Leads
Like
Understand
How
Hire
Taste
Listen
Lack
Often
Them
Should
Decorator
Extensive
My dad used to sell a type of commodity contract. It was so complicated, he was certain his sales people didn't understand what they were selling.
Nicholas Jarecki
People
Complicated
Type
He
Understand
Were
His
Sales
Contract
Sell
Selling
Commodity
Certain
Used
Dad
I think that once people understand the great risks that climate change poses, they will naturally want to choose products and services that cause little or no emissions of greenhouse gases, which means 'low-carbon consumption.' This will apply across the board, including electricity, heating, transport and food.
Nicholas Stern
Food
Great
Change
Risks
People
Cause
Will
Think
Once
Emissions
Consumption
Understand
Climate
Climate Change
Greenhouse
Greenhouse Gases
Heating
Want
Which
Board
Little
Across
Means
Choose
Naturally
Transport
Products
Electricity
Including
Services
Apply
Gases
Poses
The frustrations and joys of parenthood are just hard to understand until you have a kid... the constant fight you're having with yourself, like loving being with your kid but also being kind of bored and wanting to look at your iPhone - it's kind of an interesting thing that's hard to write about before you've experienced it.
Nicholas Stoller
You
Fight
Yourself
Before
Kid
Kind
Constant
Bored
About
Parenthood
Having
Write
Like
Look
Until
Joys
Also
Understand
iPhone
Just
Being
Experienced
Wanting
Interesting
Loving
Frustrations
Interesting Thing
Your
Hard
Thing
People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on.
Nick Cave
Funny
People
Anxiety
Think
Funny Stuff
Way
Scaring
Stuff
Underneath
Understand
Lot
Off
Going
Often
Them
Separate
Deep
Serious
Pulling
Most people in this country are very fair-minded; they understand we're in the middle of a very difficult journey of repairing, rescuing, restoring our British economy, and they want us, and they want particularly Liberal Democrats in government, to fight for the fairest possible way of doing that.
Nick Clegg
Government
Journey
Fight
People
Country
Difficult
Liberal
Liberal Democrats
Our
Way
Possible
Restoring
Economy
Most
Particularly
Fairest
Democrats
Understand
Repairing
Doing
Very
Middle
Want
Us
Rescuing
British
My dad was a longshoreman in the Port of Miami. Tough job. I worked down there in the summer once. One day. Never again. My dad was a no-nonsense guy. As a kid, I hated his rules, but as a man, I understand what he was teaching. He taught me you have to work hard for everything you get.
Nick Ferguson
Work
Day
Me
You
Man
Work Hard
Job
Tough
Down
Summer
Everything
Once
Kid
Rules
One Day
Hated
Guy
Tough Job
Never
He
Understand
His
Miami
Get
Taught
Again
Worked
Hard
Teaching
Dad
Port
We became enthralled with the view that wealth trickled down from the top and that if you poured money into rich people, sort of like an ingredient, prosperity and jobs would squirt out of them like donuts. And if you understand economies in the 19th-century way, that view is plausible, and I think a lot of people accepted it.
Nick Hanauer
You
People
Money
Wealth
Prosperity
Rich
Down
Think
Top
Way
Out
Jobs
Would
Poured
Economies
Like
Sort
Became
Accepted
Understand
Lot
Donuts
Them
Rich People
Ingredient
View
Plausible
We are bodies which think, and we're at home with steampunk because it is an ethos of design and creativity which acknowledges the humanly physical: that which we can understand with our fingers.
Nick Harkaway
Home
Creativity
Design
Think
Our
Physical
Fingers
Because
Understand
Acknowledge
Which
Bodies
Ethos
I hated teaching Shakespeare. In order for the students to understand what was going on, you had to tell them the story of 'Macbeth' or whatever. Shakespeare is about character and language, and they didn't get any of that.
Nick Hornby
Character
You
Language
Whatever
Macbeth
Tell
Hated
About
Shakespeare
Students
Had
Understand
Get
Any
Going
Order
Story
Them
Teaching
I always thought 'Of Mice and Men' was such a perfect book because there's nothing not to understand, but it's still really clever and moving and complicated, but everybody understands the complication.
Nick Hornby
Book
Complicated
Thought
Men
Clever
Nothing
Everybody
Complication
Perfect
Because
Understand
Always
Understands
Still
Mice
Moving
Really
There's just a feeling, when you're just an actor - I have great admiration for people who are just actors. I don't understand it, the idea of waiting to get cast, being at the whim of others. I find it incredibly powerless and frightening, so that's why I've been constantly trying to create my own content.
Nick Kroll
Great
You
Waiting
People
Feeling
Own
Others
Incredibly
Find
Admiration
Constantly
My Own
Cast
Idea
Powerless
Content
Understand
Been
Frightening
Get
Trying
Just
Being
Whim
Create
Who
Actor
Why
My dream was to draw for 'The Beano.' When I was 10 years old, I started drawing cartoon strips with 'The Beano' in mind. I lived in that world. You own a comic, it's yours and adults don't understand it. You could pile them up under the bed, and if you were off school ill, you'd go through them all.
Nick Park
You
World
School
Old
Mind
Own
Draw
Drawing
Strips
Dream
Cartoon
Could
Through
Adult
Pile
Understand
Comic
Bed
Go
Were
Years
Off
Up
Them
Ill
Yours
Lived
Started
Men shop for problem solving. They want something familiar. So if it's a new version of something they understand, they are right there with it and, hopefully, loving it.
Nick Wooster
Problem
Men
Hopefully
Solving
Something
New
Understand
Version
Familiar
Shop
Problem-Solving
Want
Loving
Right
I cannot hold a grudge against Mariah Carey. What people don't understand is that I've looked up to her for so many years.
Nicki Minaj
People
Looked
Understand
Years
Up
So Many Years
Hold
Cannot
Against
Many
Her
Grudge
Mariah Carey
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