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I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.
Peter Jennings
God
Strong
Gone
Seeking
Through
Period
Understand
How
Connections
You've got to do the research. You've got to understand the market place, know your competitors.
Peter Jones
You
Research
Market
Know
Understand
Got
Place
Your
Competitors
One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism.
Peter L. Berger
Secular
Christian
Unless
Similar
Sees
Reacting
Call
Reactive
Understand
Movements
Them
Humanism
Right
Christian Right
Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.
Peter L. Berger
Better
Own
Society
Others
Only
Understand
Which
Interested
Much
Even
Comparing
Prerogative
Modern art, in particular, seems especially vulnerable to fraud. Its abstractions are sometimes difficult to understand or grasp, and a modern painting is often loved less because of its intrinsic quality - its beauty, as conventionally understood - than because of the identity of the painter, its mark of social status.
Peter Landesman
Art
Quality
Sometimes
Beauty
Painting
Difficult
Mark
Intrinsic
Fraud
Status
Seems
Abstraction
Particular
Identity
Because
Vulnerable
Understand
Understood
Than
Modern
Modern Art
Often
Loved
Social
Less
Painter
Grasp
To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.
Peter M. Brant
Art
Freedom
You
Society
Through
Freedom Of Expression
Message
Understand
Occupy
Occupy Wall Street
Wall
Wall Street
Artists
Centuries
Expression
Street
I understand why the Tories will be gunning for Alastair Campbell because they fear his campaigning skills.
Peter Mandelson
Fear
Will
Tories
Because
Understand
His
Campaigning
Campbell
Skills
Why
If something's a high-margin product, I understand its importance to the store.
Peter Marino
Something
Importance
Understand
Store
Product
We need to understand that the Geneva Conventions are not just some historical documents born of another time, created for another purpose.
Peter Maurer
Time
Some
Born
Purpose
Geneva
Documents
Another
Another Time
Understand
Historical
Just
Conventions
Created
Need
I don't understand and don't enjoy sci-fi, and it's just that if people aren't real, and they don't live in a real and recognizable society, I don't understand what to do.
Peter Morgan
People
Live
Enjoy
Society
Recognizable
Sci-Fi
Understand
Real
Just
Sometimes it's okay for an audience not to understand everything that's going on.
Peter Morgan
Sometimes
Everything
Okay
Understand
Audience
Going
There are movies I've seen or books I've read that attach themselves in a way that's greater than the ability to understand why. How do you explain that kind of connectedness?
Peter Riegert
You
Seen
Books
Way
Kind
Ability
Attach
Read
Greater
Understand
How
Than
Explain
Movies
Themselves
Why
At Manchester United, you can have a bad day, and the supporters understand. Even in a crunch game, you can have a bad result, and they still back the team.
Peter Schmeichel
Day
You
Game
Result
Bad Day
Back
Bad
Crunch
Supporters
Understand
Still
Manchester
Manchester United
Team
Even
United
I understand in the context of acting, it allows me to manifest character, but I am no wiser then the next person that is living up a life, that is acting and reacting to the built-up circumstances around them.
Peter Scolari
Life
Character
Me
Living
Circumstances
Wiser
Reacting
Around
Understand
Am
Context
Up
Person
Manifest
Them
Then
Next
Acting
The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.
Peter Senge
Nature
Society
Further
Understand
Human
Interdependence
Less
Human Society
Away
I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.
Peter Singer
Nature
Pretty
Understand
Modern
Anything
Interference
Notion
Gross
Farming
Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.
Peter Straub
Women
Better
Men
Doubt
Everybody
Characters
No Doubt
Writers
Nobody
Over
Knows
Because
Understand
Surprised
Male
Women Writers
Than
Accurately
Represent
Again
Much
Investors are always biased to invest in things they themselves understand. So venture capitalists like Uber because they like driving in black town cars. They don't like Airbnb because they like staying in five-star hotels, not sleeping on people's couches.
Peter Thiel
People
Car
Black
Sleeping
Airbnb
Staying
Invest
Driving
Investors
Hotels
Town
Like
Biased
Venture
Because
Understand
Always
Themselves
Capitalists
Things
I think once you understand a language, you understand the culture surrounding it as well.
Petr Cech
You
Culture
Language
Think
Once
Well
Understand
Surrounding
I speak five languages, which actually makes it easier when you join a new team. You can settle much quicker because you can help team-mates much faster and better. People need to be careful around me, though - I can understand everything.
Petr Cech
Me
You
People
Speak
Better
Faster
Settle
Everything
Easier
Though
Be Careful
Join
New
Because
Around
Makes
Understand
Quicker
Five
Which
Much
Languages
Team
Help
Actually
Need
Careful
I'd like people to understand that I do have some personality.
Peyton Manning
People
Personality
Some
Like
Understand
I understand the seriousness of concussions.
Peyton Manning
Understand
Seriousness
I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.
Phil Donahue
War
World
Remember
About
Could
Never
Put
Bewildered
Understand
How
Fence
Behind
Being
Japanese
World War
World War II
As an OB-GYN physician, I understand the importance of protecting Americans from sexually transmitted diseases, and I applaud the development of an HPV vaccine. But for states to mandate vaccination for young women is both unprecedented and unacceptable.
Phil Gingrey
Women
Physician
Young
States
Unacceptable
Sexually
Unprecedented
Both
Development
Importance
Protecting
Understand
American
Diseases
Mandate
Young Women
Transmitted
Applaud
Vaccination
Vaccine
For the life of me, I can't understand why BP couldn't go in at the ocean floor, maybe 10 feet lateral to the - around the periphery, drill a few holes, and put a little ammonium nitrate, some dynamite, in those holes and detonate that dynamite and seal that - seal that leak. And seal it permanently.
Phil Gingrey
Life
Me
Ocean
Few
Those
Some
Drill
Put
Feet
Leak
Periphery
Around
Understand
Permanently
Go
Maybe
Dynamite
Holes
Little
Seal
Why
Floor
I think the time has come when the American people understand that federal employees need to work an 8-hour day just like everybody else.
Phil Gingrey
Work
Time
Day
People
Employees
Think
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Federal
Come
Like
Understand
American
Just
American People
Need
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