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In narrative cinema, a certain terminology has already been established: 'film noir,' 'Western,' even 'Spaghetti Western.' When we say 'film noir' we know what we are talking about. But in non-narrative cinema, we are a little bit lost. So sometimes, the only way to make us understand what we are talking about is to use the term 'avant-garde.'
Jonas Mekas
Cinema
Sometimes
Lost
Way
Say
Bit
About
Only
Term
Noir
Know
Terminology
Make
Talking
Understand
Narrative
Been
Western
Established
Spaghetti
Little
Avant-Garde
Little Bit
Us
Certain
Use
Even
Film
Film Noir
I always love to look at something that I couldn't make, because I feel it's enlightening. It means you are not invincible: you can respect something and look up to it and go, 'Wow!' It's a skill that I don't have, but I can understand the merit of it.
Jonathan Anderson
Love
You
Respect
Wow
Something
Invincible
Feel
Merit
Look
Make
Because
Understand
Always
Go
Up
Skill
Means
Enlightening
I think it's all about how much you love, understand and can relate to the material you are given.
Jonathan Brandis
Love
You
Think
Relate
About
Given
Understand
How
Material
How Much
Much
I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for.
Jonathan Dimbleby
You
Programmes
Significant
Entire
Proportion
Fail
Exclude
Understand
How
Poll
Tax
Justify
Paying
Population
What we need is a full field guide to the microbes that live in and on people, so that we can understand what they're doing to our lives. We are them; they are us.
Jonathan Eisen
People
Field
Live
Our
Guide
Our Lives
Understand
Doing
Them
Us
Full
Lives
Need
I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the U.S.A.
Jonathan Haidt
School
Judgment
Research
Late
Moral
India
Some
Morality
Varied
Understand
How
Goal
Cultures
Began
Did
Graduate
Graduate School
Nations
Across
Comparing
When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.
Jonathan Ive
Ability
Magical
Something
Sort
Understand
Becomes
How
Your
Works
Unless we understand a certain material - metal or resin and plastic - understanding the processes that turn it from ore, for example - we can never develop and define form that's appropriate.
Jonathan Ive
Example
Understanding
Unless
Appropriate
Define
Never
Develop
For Example
Understand
Metal
Material
Form
Processes
Ore
Turn
Certain
Plastic
I think it's important that we learn how to draw and to make something and to do it directly. To understand the properties you're working with by manipulating them and transforming them yourself.
Jonathan Ive
You
Yourself
Important
Think
Draw
Something
Properties
Directly
Make
Learn
Understand
How
Transforming
Manipulating
Them
Working
There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are.
Jonathan Kozol
Innovation
People
Progress
School
Few
Field
Our
Has-Been
Bad
Area
Outside
Most
Talk
Understand
How
Still
Materials
Been
Textbook
Revision
Few People
Curriculum
Much
Teaching
Elementary
Elementary School
Recent
I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.
Jonathan Krohn
Rights
People
Ideology
Conservatism
Protecting
Understand
American
Want
American People
Terrorism is resorted to for practical reasons because there is no other tool available. And those who use terrorism, and then subsequently become the targets of terrorism, understand its power and how difficult it is to counter it. Not just militarily. But especially in terms of international perception.
Jonathan Powell
Terrorism
Perception
Power
Become
Difficult
Other
Tool
Those
Counter
Terms
Practical
Because
Understand
How
Targets
Subsequently
Just
Available
Then
Use
Who
Reasons
International
I wouldn't date an actress. There's only room for one actor in my life and I'm it. Too difficult. On the one hand, they understand the job. But on the other hand, it's very competitive within the relationship. Two actors, say one becomes a mega-star and the other doesn't.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Life
Relationship
Job
My Life
Difficult
Too
Other
Say
Only
Date
Within
Understand
Becomes
Hand
Very
Room
Actor
Actress
Competitive
Two
I think that's one of the biggest things people don't understand: a clean house will sell faster.
Jonathan Scott
People
Will
Think
Faster
Clean
House
Understand
Sell
Biggest
Biggest Things
Things
People don't seem to understand that the separation of powers is not about the power of these branches; it's there to protect individual liberty - it's there to protect us from the concentration of power.
Jonathan Turley
People
Liberty
Power
Separation
About
Seem
Individual
Individual Liberty
Concentration
Protect
Powers
Understand
Branches
Us
I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you. I don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated.
Jonathan Winters
Hope
God
Day
You
Every Day
People
Comedy
Painting
Every
Out
Find
Minute
Slower
Some
Understand
Verbally
Motivated
Go
Than
Where
Process
Much
Mile
Paint
If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.
Joni Mitchell
Me
People
Parents
Moral
Well
Understand
Still
Very
Anyone
Old-Fashioned
People need to feel like their heroes are human, not on the mat but in the world. The more people can see that, the more they can understand that they're capable of doing great things as well.
Jordan Burroughs
Great
People
World
Great Things
Heroes
See
More
More People
Feel
Like
Well
Mat
Understand
Doing
Human
Capable
Things
Need
I think there's really no rhyme or reason as to what keeps a show on air. Surely it's a numbers game, but some of the best shows get canceled, and some shows where you don't totally understand why they're on the air stay on for 15 or 20 years.
Jordana Spiro
Best
You
Game
Think
Air
Stay
Some
Totally
Surely
Understand
Years
Get
Where
Rhyme
Really
Show
Reason
Shows
Why
Keeps
Numbers
We try to buy from living artists because we love to understand why they are painting or sculpting and get into their minds.
Jorge M. Perez
Love
Buy
Try
Painting
Living
Minds
Because
Understand
Get
Artists
Sculpting
Why
Immigration is the issue that tells us who is with us and who is against us; there's no question about it. And it's very simple to understand why - half of all Latinos over 18 years of age were born outside the United States. It really makes no sense to attack them and criticize them if you want their vote.
Jorge Ramos
You
Vote
Age
Immigration
Simple
Half
Sense
States
Latinos
Tells
Criticize
Born
About
No Question
Attack
No Sense
Outside
Over
Makes
Understand
Issue
Were
Years
Question
Very
Want
Against
Them
Us
Really
Who
United
Why
United States
There's the famous quote that if you want to understand how animals live, you don't go to the zoo, you go to the jungle. The Future Lab has really pioneered that within Lego, and it hasn't been a theoretical exercise. It's been a real design-thinking approach to innovation, which we've learned an awful lot from.
Jorgen Vig Knudstorp
Future
You
Innovation
Animals
Live
Approach
Learned
Exercise
Within
Understand
How
Real
Go
Been
Lot
Lab
Jungle
Famous
Want
Lego
Quote
Which
Really
Theoretical
Awful
Awful Lot
Zoo
There's this issue where I'm really doing well and got hate 'cause I'm too light-skinned. I understand why people say that - throughout history, the lighter you are, that's how it's been. But it's not my fault. My mom and dad had me! I look how I look.
Jorja Smith
Mom
Me
History
You
Hate
People
Fault
Cause
Too
Say
People Say
Throughout
Had
Lighter
Look
Well
Understand
Got
How
Doing
Issue
Been
Where
Really
Mom And Dad
Dad
Why
I don't understand how it's cheaper to buy a whole steak at the Price Club than spinach. How did that happen?
Jose Andres
Buy
Club
Spinach
Steak
Price
Cheaper
Understand
How
Than
Did
Happen
Whole
I carry on singing because I love it. The closer you are to the end, the more you understand how important it is.
Jose Carreras
Love
You
Important
Singing
Carry
More
Because
Understand
How
End
Closer
Because the task of a political leader is to do what he believes is better for his country. Sometimes the public opinion is in favor; sometimes the public opinion needs a little bit more time to understand things.
Jose Maria Aznar
Time
Needs
Better
Sometimes
Political
Leader
Country
Bit
Favor
More
He
Because
Opinion
Understand
His
Political Leader
Task
Public
Little
Little Bit
Public Opinion
Believes
Things
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