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In 'Gran Torino,' I play a guy who's racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you're never too old to learn and embrace people that you don't understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess.
Clint Eastwood
You
People
Old
Too
Else
Guess
Embrace
Seems
Guy
Never
He
Nobody
Nobody Else
Like
Message
Learn
Learned
Understand
Got
Begin
Offensive
Shows
Play
I'll never understand how destroying families through deportation benefits our society. How we treat the undocumented says a great deal about us as a people and whether or not we'll continue to fulfill the fundamental American promise of equality and opportunity for all.
Conor Oberst
Great
People
Equality
Treat
Benefits
Opportunity
Great Deal
Society
Our
Says
Destroying
Promise
About
Through
Never
Deal
Understand
How
Continue
Undocumented
Families
American
Whether
Deportation
Us
Fulfill
Fundamental
You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.
Dale Archer
Happiness
Life
You
Yourself
Key
Run
Accept
Understand
Lot
Who
Away
Things
What I am unable to understand with the people who associate themselves with Trump is their willingness to overlook the dishonesty, the indecency, the lack of empathy, to be asked to go out every single day and why.
Daniel Pfeiffer
Day
People
Single
Every
Unable
Out
Willingness
Empathy
Single Day
Understand
Am
Overlook
Go
Trump
Lack
Dishonesty
Themselves
Asked
Who
Why
Associate
Every Single Day
Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy - freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don't just get out there and do anything you want.
Dave Brubeck
Freedom
Democracy
You
Constitution
People
Discipline
Jazz
Out
Idea
Within
Disciplined
Understand
How
Get
Just
Want
Anything
Really
Many
Play
To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible - that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins.
David Whyte
Regret
Lose
Past
Control
Difficult
Our
Tell
Abide
Admit
About
Only
Unspoken
Sincere
Beyond
Contemporary
Powers
Understand
Greatest
Fallible
Sins
Very
Story
Us
Present
Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
Dick Gregory
You
Situation
Medicine
Sick
More
Qualify
Makes
Understand
Than
Any
Just
Being
Expert
Race
I think a lot of people think I'm either unintelligent because I'm a very happy person and I have a lot of energy or that it's a fake happiness, like fake energy. I completely understand that because it's a lot to handle, and I am a very emotional human being.
Dove Cameron
Happiness
Happy
People
Human Being
Energy
Think
Emotional
Like
Because
Understand
Fake
Am
Lot
Very
Handle
Person
Human
Being
Either
Happy Person
Unintelligent
The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.
Drew Barrymore
Life
Good
Day
You
Director
Happy
Reality
Good Day
Ending
Tomorrow
Older
Tell
More
Perfect
Because
Understand
Versus
Get
Want
Stories
Happens
Happy Ending
Next
Things
Necessarily
Appreciate
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
Edmond de Goncourt
Love
Today
Book
First
Half
Lost
Incomplete
Other
Ourselves
Has-Been
Must
Absence
Volumes
Parted
Feel
Like
Understand
Been
Exists
Begin
Lack
Romantic
Which
Each
Two
Imagine
One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
Edward Albee
Mind
Will
Sense
Immediately
Respond
Must
Rather
Know
Loose
Understand
Impressions
Than
Happen
Play
Receive
Gather
Children must be impressed with the fact that the greatest heroes are those who fight to help others, not those who fight for power or glory. They must be made to understand that victory does not prove that the thing fought for is right, nor that defeat proves that a cause is wrong.
Ellen Key
Fight
Cause
Victory
Heroes
Made
Power
Help Others
Defeat
Others
Those
Must
Fact
Wrong
Glory
Understand
Greatest
Does
Prove
Proves
Nor
Impressed
Children
Help
Who
Fought
Right
Thing
Communities of color don't understand what it means to be a police officer, the fear that police officers have in just being on the streets.
Eric Holder
Fear
Police
Color
Police Officer
Police Officers
Understand
Officer
Officers
Just
Being
Means
Communities
Streets
I will make up a crush, you hear me?! I will look at a guy and say, for two months at least, 'I think you're cute.' And then I can be psycho. I will go in my head and make a whole life with him, he don't even understand why I'm mad at him. I'm like... 'cause you came in late last night!' And he's like, 'I don't even know you.'
Ester Dean
Life
Me
You
Cause
Will
Cute
Think
Late
Months
Say
Mad
Guy
He
Head
Crush
Like
Know
Look
Make
Him
Make Up
Understand
Least
Came
Go
Hear
Up
Psycho
Then
Whole
Even
Why
Last
Night
Two
Last Night
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Ezra Pound
Life
Man
Book
Men
Seen
Books
Rate
He
Part
Until
Contents
Understand
Understands
Least
Any
Certain
Deep
Lived
Amount
That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.
Francis Ford Coppola
Life
Me
You
Others
Share
Part
Understand
Existence
Trying
Personal
Modern
Artist
Modern Life
Requirement
Your
Illuminate
We're not a racist organization, because we understand that racism is an excuse used for capitalism, and we know that racism is just - it's a byproduct of capitalism.
Fred Hampton
Capitalism
Racism
Organization
Excuse
Know
Because
Understand
Just
Used
People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better.
Geoffrey Canada
Hope
Faith
History
You
People
Better
Will
Lose
Community
Believe
Circumstances
Hopelessness
Folks
Over
Because
Understand
Proven
Years
Norm
Get
Where
Whole
Things
I'm always telling my students that if they can't explain what they are doing, to their grandmothers, then they probably don't understand it themselves.
Gunter Blobel
Telling
Students
Understand
Always
Doing
Explain
Themselves
Then
Grandmothers
Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
Ian Mckellen
Life
You
World
Try
Live
Out
More
Part
Know
Understand
Go
Go For It
Discover
Than
Happening
Which
Then
Play
Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
J. C. Watts
Survival
Strong
Compassion
Guilt
Action
Out
Weakest
Mutual
Only
Football
League
Like
Understand
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Done
Little
Choices
Team
Professional
Professional Football
Awards
Draft
The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.
James D. Watson
Success
Science
Will
Made
Schizophrenia
Bipolar
Appropriate
Project
Out
Possible
See
Seek
Mental
Only
Rationally
Advances
Soon
Genetic
Also
Genome
Understand
Quickening
Disease
Human
After
Them
Us
Illnesses
Let Us
Ever
Level
When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional thinking.
James Howard Kunstler
You
Society
Thinking
Delusional
Understand
Lot
Up
Get
Against
Hard
Things
Stressed
I know that the purpose of life is to understand and be in the present moment with the people you love. It's just that simple.
Jane Seymour
Life
Love
You
People
Simple
Purpose
Know
Understand
Just
Moment
Present
Present Moment
We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.
Jared Diamond
History
Genocide
Evil
Minds
Those
Rapists
About
Study
Understand
How
Came
Same
Psychologists
Reason
Injustices
Things
Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That's when you know the most, you've seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.
Jerry Seinfeld
You
Seen
Energy
Say
Would
Physical
Some
Prime
Know
Most
Understand
Still
Your
Forty
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