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My family doesn't understand trying to chase your dreams because they were all about survival.
Cristela Alonzo
Dreams
Family
Survival
About
Chase
Because
Understand
Were
Trying
Your
Your Dreams
I was raised to understand and know the difference between right and wrong.
Curt Schilling
Wrong
Between
Know
Understand
Difference
Right
Right And Wrong
Raised
One thing that people don't really understand is that as celebrity you rarely get fair treatment. You either get love or hate. It's never really fair.
DMX
Love
You
Hate
People
One Thing
Rarely
Never
Fair
Understand
Celebrity
Get
Either
Really
Thing
Treatment
Friends are sometimes a big help when they share your feelings. In the context of decisions, the friends who will serve you best are those who understand your feelings but are not overly impressed by them.
Daniel Kahneman
Best
You
Sometimes
Will
Feelings
Big
Those
Share
Understand
Context
Overly
Impressed
Friends
Decisions
Them
Your
Help
Who
Serve
On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.
David Bowie
Music
Me
You
Other
Ghosts
Inside
Like
Understand
Demons
Hand
Awaken
I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.
David Eagleman
Life
Science
Try
Mysteries
Approach
Spent
Vast
Adult
Adult Life
Most
Around
Understand
Scientist
Essentially
Successful
I would argue that education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again.
Dean Kamen
Work
Education
Hard Work
Government
You
Learning
Parents
Pencil
Would
Argue
Read
Understand
Very
Personal
Anything
Break
Again
Teach
Your
Teachers
Hard
Actual
Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it!
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
You
Diversity
Unfair
Bench
Out
Critical
Willing
See
Feels
Like
Call
Judges
Inequality
Understand
Discrimination
Get
Subtleties
Who
Need
Treatment
When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.
Debra Winger
Life
Work
People
Life Is Short
Think
Distance
Kind
Bad
About
Something
Tact
Bad Thing
Arm
Know
Because
Understand
Short
Want
Younger
Thing
Basic
Kept
Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking.
Dennis Miller
Me
Game
People
Cause
Somebody
Own
Thinking
Say
Drift
Head
Understand
Always
Stagnant
Interesting
Who
Shows
Found
Why
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
You
Genius
Simple
Simplicity
System
Operating
Operating System
Understand
Basically
UNIX
I try to update my arsenal constantly. Learning different martial arts since childhood. To understand what's out there. To really be in tune.
Donnie Yen
Learning
Try
Out
Constantly
Martial
Martial Arts
Since
Understand
Arsenal
Update
Childhood
Arts
Different
Tune
Really
Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
E. L. Doctorow
Saying
Great
Man
Beginning
Books
Obama
Would
Great Man
He
Voted
Him
Because
Understand
Reads
Just
Anyway
Realities
I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.
Eben Alexander
Death
Good
People
Those
Had
Journeys
Scientific
Understand
Always
Narrowly
Were
Brain
Escaped
Heavenly
Happens
Explanations
Who
Believed
Near
I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.
Eddie Huang
You
Yourself
People
Way
Define
Like
Understand
Labels
Expectations
Them
Certain
Certain Way
Need
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
Edgar Allan Poe
Religion
Charity
Strong
Christ
Crime
Made
Men
Argument
About
Only
Feel
Understand
Which
Against
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Edward Appleton
Language
Mind
Long
Sung
Opera
Understand
We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.
Edward T. Hall
Relationship
You
Culture
People
Language
Lose
Own
Other
Rather
Never
Between
Another
Understand
Does
Denigrate
Dominant
Any
Mean
Should
Your
Help
Help People
Every few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.' So I pick it up and try it again. And by page 10, as always, I'm like, 'What the hell?'
Elizabeth Gilbert
Smart
Try
Few
Hell
Every
Think
Enough
Finally
Pick
Like
Sophisticated
Understand
Always
Years
Ulysses
Up
Maybe
Again
Page
Now
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Emil Cioran
Criticism
Others
Ourselves
Must
Misconception
Read
Understand
Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.
Eminem
Mother
Compassion
Addict
Definitely
Understand
Get
Now
I understand what it's like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, 'She's got her daughter; she's got her husband.' Yeah, but she hasn't got anyone else.
Emma Thompson
Family
You
Culture
Yourself
People
Husband
Daughter
Else
Say
People Say
Support
Come
Like
She
Another
Understand
Got
Yeah
Lot
Uproot
Anyone
Anyone Else
Your
Her
Need
People don't really understand, but having people stare, and point, and take pictures, even if it is in a positive framework, is quite isolating; there's no two ways about it. You feel a little bit, you know, freakish.
Emma Watson
Positive
You
People
Framework
Bit
Ways
About
Having
Point
Take
Feel
Pictures
Know
Understand
Quite
Little
Little Bit
Really
Even
Stare
Two
The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.
Emo Philips
Post
Evil
Incompetence
Way
Post Office
Russians
Combination
Like
Sort
Understand
Tanks
Office
America is the only nation in the world based on an idea - freedom and self-government - so if we don't understand that idea and what sacrifices were made to win that freedom and keep it for over two centuries, how can we possibly continue to keep it?
Eric Metaxas
Freedom
World
Win
Made
Nation
Possibly
Only
Sacrifices
Idea
Over
Self-Government
Understand
How
Were
Continue
America
Centuries
Keep
Based
Two
We need to understand that Christianity is about changing; it is not about a religion.
Erwin McManus
Religion
Christianity
Changing
About
Understand
Need
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