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If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about.
Paul Graham
You
Words
Say
About
Something
Instead
Understand
Fewest
Really
When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on Earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand the data.
Paul Hawken
Future
You
Science
Earth
About
Data
Look
Understand
Answer
Always
Am
Optimistic
Same
Happening
Asked
Pessimistic
After I started to understand the spiritual dimension of life, I understood the responsibilities you have as a husband, a father, a friend and a hockey player.
Paul Henderson
Life
Spiritual
You
Father
Husband
Dimension
Responsibilities
Spiritual Dimension
Understand
Understood
Friend
Hockey
Hockey Player
After
Player
Started
We need students to understand how the world has changed and be prepared to make contributions in a new way.
Paul Jacobs
World
Changed
Way
Be Prepared
Students
New
Make
Understand
How
Contributions
New Way
Prepared
Need
Before operating on a patient's brain... I must first understand his mind: his identity, his values, what makes his life worth living, and what devastation makes it reasonable to let that life end.
Paul Kalanithi
Life
Worth
Mind
Values
First
Before
Patient
Living
Worth Living
Must
Devastation
Identity
Operating
Makes
Understand
His
Brain
End
Reasonable
We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them.
Paul Kantner
Words
Otherwise
Out
Would
Would-Be
Able
Nobody
Printed
Because
Understand
Them
You see, psychologically, Australia must understand it has to live in the region around it. Australia must find its security in Asia; it cannot find its security from Asia.
Paul Keating
You
Live
Security
Must
Find
See
Around
Understand
Australia
Psychologically
Cannot
Region
Asia
I don't understand why people don't remember my name.
Paul Lynde
People
Remember
Name
Understand
Why
When they were making black films in the '60s and the '70s, everyone knew their place, if you get my drift. You understand? Everyone knew the rules, and everyone knew their place. Everyone knew what to say. They had the written rules in Hollywood film, and the unwritten rules.
Paul Mooney
You
Black
Films
Everyone
Say
Rules
Drift
Had
Written
Knew
Understand
Making
Unwritten
Were
Get
Place
Hollywood
Film
What people don't understand is the summertime is motivation - how willing you're willing to work for the upcoming season - and I think, as older players, once you see that drive fall off in the summer, then I think it's time to hang it up.
Paul Pierce
Work
Time
You
People
Drive
Fall
Older
Think
Summer
Once
Summertime
Willing
See
Understand
How
Motivation
Off
Up
Hang
Then
Season
Players
I understand when you have great players on losing teams who are tired of losing, struggling in the playoffs every year. You're the lone star. I've been in that position.
Paul Pierce
Great
Tired
You
Losing
Year
Every
Lone
Struggling
Understand
Been
Who
Teams
Star
Players
Playoffs
Position
I think that I identify with my role in pretty much everything I have tried to do. I try to find something that I can understand about each character's behavior.
Paul Rudd
Character
Try
Behavior
Think
Everything
Tried
Find
Pretty
About
Something
Identify
Understand
Role
Much
Each
Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you.
Paul Ryan
Hope
You
Focus
Feeling
Too
Everyone
Out
Obama
Obama Economy
Stuck
Leaders
Failed
Feels
Economy
Understand
Passed
Left
Your
Who
Now
Right
Here
I don't look down on tourism. I live in Hawaii where we have 7 million visitors a year. If they weren't there, there would be no economy. So I understand why a tourist economy is necessary.
Paul Theroux
Year
Down
Live
Visitors
Would
Would-Be
Hawaii
Tourism
Tourist
Economy
Look
Understand
Were
Where
Why
Million
Necessary
I think I understand passion. Love is something else.
Paul Theroux
Love
Love Is
Passion
Think
Else
Something
Something Else
Understand
My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones.
Paul Theroux
Love
Me
Worlds
Seems
Small
Self-Contained
Obsession
Known
Because
Understand
Islands
Condition
Pathological
Us
Help
Reasonable
Traveling
Larger
Amount
Women, you need to understand something. Men are not as dumb as you think they are.
Paul Washer
You
Women
Men
Think
Something
Understand
Dumb
Need
The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understand that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.
Paul Watson
System
Would
Would-Be
Taboo
Given
Area
Recover
Had
Understand
Caught
Fish
Fisherman
Fishing
Any
Where
Proclaimed
Used
Chance
Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.
Paul Westerberg
Music
Listening
Reading
Like
Concept
Understand
Flowers
Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments.
Paul Weyrich
Conservative
Increasingly
President
Voters
Understand
Judicial
Leave
His
Legacy
Appointments
Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.
Paul Wolfowitz
Better
Consequences
Tyrants
Brutal
Poles
Perhaps
Understand
Terrorist
Making
Than
Anyone
Regimes
Warnings
You know, I understand that a lot of people, especially up north, put fruits and nuts in their stuffing, which is good, but for myself personally, I love an old-timey savory dressing.
Paula Deen
Love
Myself
Good
You
People
Nuts
Dressing
Put
Stuffing
Know
Understand
Lot
Up
North
Fruits
Which
Personally
My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.
Paulo Coelho
Day
Me
You
Emails
Say
Also
Well
Readers
Understand
Answer
Normally
Get
Same
Same Level
They Say
Level
The best comedy to me - and again, I grew up with comedy since I was a baby, so I've seen it all - is when you exaggerate the truth, like Richard Pryor did, you understand?
Pauly Shore
Truth
Best
Me
You
Comedy
Seen
Baby
Exaggerate
Since
Like
Understand
Up
Did
Pryor
Grew
Again
Richard
Richard Pryor
We want people to continue learning new things about what space does to the human body. It's important for us to understand that and make sure when we get ready to fly to Mars that we are ready for what we're going to be exposed to.
Peggy Whitson
Learning
People
Space
Fly
Important
New Things
Mars
About
New
Make
Sure
Understand
Does
Ready
Continue
Get
Going
Human
Want
Human Body
Us
Body
Exposed
Things
In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can't actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and all that, but actually we've all got voices, and it is awfully nice to hear them and if you can understand what people are saying.
Penelope Keith
Saying
Great
You
Age
Communication
People
Nice
Everyone
Voices
Know
Understand
Got
Hear
Lot
Texts
Them
Tweets
Actually
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