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If you're going to sign a contract, there are things you have to understand you might have to do. If you don't, then you walk away.
Ato Essandoh
You
Walk
Sign
Understand
Contract
Going
Might
Then
Away
Things
I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that the most compelling aspect was not what happened, but what continues to happen and how it is denied.
Atom Egoyan
History
Details
Most
Felt
Understand
Always
How
Denied
Began
Happen
Happened
Story
Aspect
Compelling
Universal
I write because it's my way of finding cool ideas, thinking through hard problems and things I don't understand, and getting better at something.
Atul Gawande
Better
Problems
Thinking
Way
Finding
Something
Through
Write
Ideas
Because
Understand
Getting
Getting Better
Hard
Cool
Things
I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.
Audrey Tautou
Happy
People
Unhappy
Other
We Cannot
Make
Understand
Cannot
To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.
Auguste Comte
History
Science
Know
Understand
Necessary
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
Augustus Hare
Life
Half
Own
Babies
Our
Say
Would
Born
Could
Through
Conceit
Importance
Render
Well
Understand
Mothers
Intellect
Infants
Which
Us
Should
Filled
I totally understand I'm an eccentric person; I'm not going to claim to be a normal person.
Augustus Sol Invictus
Claim
Totally
Eccentric
Understand
Normal
Normal Person
Person
Going
I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Courage
People
Nervous
Say
People Say
Feel
Terribly
Understand
Am
Full
Why
I think guys that play basketball really understand how to go up and get a ball. Because in a rebound situation, you've got to go up and fight for a ball. Just boxing out. There are a lot of things that transfer.
Austin Seferian-Jenkins
You
Fight
Situation
Think
Out
Guys
Because
Boxing
Understand
Ball
Got
How
Go
Lot
Up
Get
Just
Transfer
Really
Rebound
Play
Play Basketball
Things
Basketball
I don't understand the iPhone. I just don't get it. Don't ya'll have to write serious emails throughout the day? How can you possibly manage detailed missives on a phone with no keys?
Ava DuVernay
Day
You
Phone
Keys
Emails
Possibly
Detailed
Throughout
Write
Understand
How
iPhone
Get
Manage
Just
Serious
Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories.
Avi
Music
You
Science
Sister
Everybody
Musician
Brother
Vital
Poems
Shape
Take
Takes
Sons
Ideas
Him
Understand
Rock
His
Question
Stories
Them
Turn
Help
Uses
Fashions
Her
The Swedish government needs to understand that relations in the Middle East are more complicated than a piece of furniture from IKEA that you assemble at home.
Avigdor Lieberman
Government
Home
Needs
You
Complicated
Relations
Furniture
East
More
Piece
Understand
Than
Middle
Middle East
Swedish
Assemble
I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid.
Ayad Akhtar
Work
Art
Me
Creative
World
Feeling
Expectation
Way
Respond
Kind
Inside
Some
About
Constraints
Excited
Longer
Industry
Self-Expression
Understand
Audience
Making
Should
Engagement
Avoid
Thing
Started
Sooner or later we've all got to confront the reality that we have got to come to understand who we are and what we're doing, and the extent to which we are guided or manipulated by forces that are beyond our control.
Ayad Akhtar
Reality
Control
Our
Later
Guided
Sooner
Sooner Or Later
Come
Beyond
Forces
Understand
Got
Doing
Which
Confront
Manipulated
Who
Extent
I understand and appreciate and respect that any time a barrier is broken or history is made, people want to celebrate it and mark it as progress.
Ayanna Pressley
Time
Broken
History
Respect
Celebrate
People
Progress
Made
Mark
Understand
Any
Want
Barrier
Appreciate
I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams.
Ayumi Hamasaki
Dreams
People
Understand
Role
Realize
I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.
Ayumi Hamasaki
Dreams
Me
People
Long
Own
My Own
Take
No-One
Songs
Understand
Role
Realize
Away
We understand how to build and manage businesses that involve technology, engineering, and people at a large scale on a global platform.
Azim Premji
Technology
People
Build
Engineering
Scale
Global
Involve
Understand
How
Manage
Businesses
Large
Platform
Large-Scale
Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I'm trying to do more. When I'm singing, I don't want you to just hear the melody. I want you to relive the story, because most of the songs have pretty good storytelling.
B. B. King
Good
You
Sometimes
Singing
Think
Melody
Pretty
Pretty Good
Relive
More
Songs
Most
Make
Because
Understand
Audience
Said
Hear
Trying
Just
Want
Story
Storytelling
Things
As a hip-hop artist who likes fashion, who can't help but notice people like Kanye West, Tiger, Big Sean and definitely T.I.P. These guys really understand how to be progressive and fashion forward.
B.o.B
Fashion
People
Big
Progressive
Definitely
Guys
Like
Likes
Tiger
Understand
How
Hip-Hop
West
Artist
Really
Notice
Kanye
Kanye West
Help
Who
Forward
Sean
My uncle is so funny - Don Vito. He was always fat with the craziest voice. Dude, he barely speaks English; it's just full-blown jibber-jabber. It's so funny to watch on TV because you really need subtitles because you can't understand him.
Bam Margera
Funny
You
Uncle
TV
Voice
He
Him
Because
Understand
Always
Dude
Just
Subtitles
Craziest
Really
Barely
Speaks
English
Watch
Fat
Need
I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
Barbara Corcoran
Words
School
Reading
Other
Other Kids
Back
Way
Bit
Kids
See
Some
Something
Classroom
Bothered
Knew
Wrong
Until
Read
Learned
Unusual
Because
Understand
Least
Did
Grade
After
After-School
Which
Sent
Help
Third
Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
Barbara Jordan
Political
Country
Guiding
About
Indigenous
Idea
Discarded
Principles
Understand
American
Represent
Cannot
Which
Short-Term
Gains
Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
Barbara Kruger
Work
You
Language
Way
Attention
Attention Spans
Do You Know
Know
Because
Understand
Does
Itself
Short
Spans
Why
Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down.
Barbara Mikulski
Class
Quality
Women
Opportunity
Care
Congress
Down
Top
Out
Jobs
More
Leading
Economy
Make
Because
Understand
Child
America
Affordable
Child Care
Middle
Middle Class
Create
Working
Means
Grows
Strengthen
People are so influenced by the media that they really believe a 38-24-45 plastic-surgery body is normal, and they can't understand why a body would possibly have cellulite or bumps.
Barbie Ferreira
People
Believe
Possibly
Would
Understand
Normal
Bumps
Influenced
Really
Body
Media
Why
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