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My aunt Ruth Brown was a jazz musician. I got hooked on it at a young age, understanding what John Coltrane was doing playing two notes on the saxophone at the same time, which is impossible.
Rakim
Time
Age
Impossible
Understanding
Young
Jazz
Saxophone
Hooked
Musician
John
John Coltrane
Brown
Ruth
Coltrane
Got
Doing
Aunt
Same
Same Time
Young Age
Which
Notes
Jazz Musician
Playing
Two
I grew up understanding cinema from early on and was soon cinema-literate.
Rana Daggubati
Cinema
Understanding
Soon
Up
Grew
Early
My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood.
Rani Mukerji
Writing
Girl
Three
Understanding
Young
Gone
Films
No Idea
About
Had
Idea
Dialogue
Shoots
Any
Childhood
Just
Just As Much
Screenplay
Young Girl
Process
Etc
Scripts
Much
Who
Whole
Bollywood
Film
Watches
Two
Filmmaking
Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it's the Word of an infallible God, the fallible words of men, or faith in what you personally believe. You've got to have faith in something. Believe me.
Ray Comfort
God
Faith
Me
You
Words
Word
Men
First
Understanding
Believe
Something
Step
First Step
Got
Fallible
Infallible
Either
Personally
I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.
Ray Kurzweil
Artificial Intelligence
Natural
Intelligence
Language
Understanding
Computers
Documents
Understand
Get
Artificial
Which
Meaning
Meaning Of
Working
Actually
My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.
Ray Lewis
Wisdom
Time
Mom
Me
Soul
Chasing
Understanding
Older
Spend
My Time
Stuff
Most
She
Calls
Because
Real
Up
Taught
Growing
Growing Up
Now
Early
I never had an understanding of Billy Martin. I did not accept the way he managed me. I did not accept the way he managed Ken Holtzman. I thought there was anti-Semitism there.
Reggie Jackson
Me
Thought
Understanding
Anti-Semitism
Way
Martin
Never
Had
He
Accept
Did
Billy
Ken
Whether it's the best player or the 12th man next to the Gatorade cooler, understanding the personalities on your team is key.
Reggie Miller
Best
Man
Key
Understanding
Whether
Personalities
Next
Your
Team
Cooler
Player
I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're achieving. I'm all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world, but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew.
Reggie Watts
You
Science
World
Key
Amazing
Understanding
Think
Our
Slightly
Our World
Be Careful
Immortality
About
Motivations
Discovering
Behind
Achieving
Fantastic
Things
Necessarily
Careful
Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.
Richard Eyre
Change
Eyes
Word
Understanding
Other
Minds
Ears
Ourselves
Oneself
Put
Empathy
Identifying
Another
Enable
Begins
Person
Hearts
Human
Arts
Human Beings
Us
Beings
If war illuminates love, love offers the possibility of allowing some light to be brought back out of the shadows. It's almost as if they buttress and make possible an understanding of each other.
Richard Flanagan
Love
War
Light
Understanding
Other
Back
Possibility
Out
Possible
Some
Brought
Shadows
Allowing
Almost
Make
Offers
Each
Illuminates
It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on.
Richard McCabe
You
Strange
Light
Understanding
Think
Changes
Performance
Like
How
Line
Normally
Going
After
Happens
Really
Means
Your
Suddenly
Play
I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way - by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!
Richard P. Feynman
Knowledge
People
Matter
Understanding
Other
Way
Some
Something
Know
Learn
Rote
Fragile
I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.
Rick Wakeman
First
Understanding
Secret
Way
Say
Rules
About
First Place
Always
The Secret Of
Place
Breaking
Works
I've played so many moms, best friends, sisters and understanding people.
Rita Wilson
Best
People
Understanding
Friends
Sisters
Many
Moms
Played
Videogames based on golf have often been viewed as, to mangle a phrase, a good walk through a virtual world spoiled. Connecting with your virtual golfers has often been as hard for gamers as understanding the sport itself.
Rob Manuel
Good
World
Walk
Understanding
Gamers
Virtual
Phrase
Through
Spoiled
Sport
Been
Itself
Often
Golf
Golfers
Videogames
Viewed
Your
Hard
Connecting
Based
Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.
Robert Andrews Millikan
Knowledge
Ignorance
Understanding
Humility
Our
Some
Always
Reverence
Conducive
Depths
Means
Fullness
Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth.
Robert B. Laughlin
Truth
Time
Respect
Conflict
Debate
Understanding
Own
Gave
Others
Our
Those
Both
Through
Powerful
Over
Ideas
Course
Revealing
Us
Means
Deep
I would call myself a Gnostic. Which means, I'm interested in pursuing and understanding the spiritual nature of things. A Gnostic is somebody seeking knowledge of that aspect of reality.
Robert Crumb
Myself
Nature
Spiritual
Knowledge
Reality
Somebody
Understanding
Would
Seeking
Pursuing
Call
Which
Interested
Means
Aspect
Things
I want to be remembered as a loving, understanding father.
Robert Gossett
Father
Understanding
Remembered
Want
Loving
We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.
Robert Hall
Life
Wisdom
Understanding
Seek
Only
Days
Length
In many museums, you see one of this and one of that. You gain an understanding of what Abstract Expressionism or Minimalism is, but you aren't given the chance to appreciate the mind of an artist.
Robert J. Fisher
You
Mind
Understanding
Minimalism
See
Given
Abstract
Artist
Gain
Many
Expressionism
Chance
Appreciate
Museums
I'm a fiction writer, and fiction is telling the lives of unreal people. But the only way you can learn to do that well is by really understanding the lives of real people.
Robert J. Sawyer
You
People
Understanding
Way
Telling
Unreal
Only
Writer
Well
Learn
Real
Real People
Fiction
Fiction Writer
Really
Lives
Our kind of research might be one of the first projects to go. Our work is not urgent; it's not the cure for cancer or Alzheimer's. But we have a way of understanding human life that you can't get anywhere else, and it lays the foundation for important, actionable things.
Robert J. Waldinger
Life
Work
You
Cancer
First
Important
Understanding
Research
Else
Our
Way
Projects
Kind
Lays
Alzheimer
Go
Cure
Get
Human
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Urgent
Might
Human Life
Actionable
Foundation
Things
Our instinctual understanding of reality is the same as most other animals.
Robert Lanza
Reality
Animals
Understanding
Other
Our
Instinctual
Most
Same
We can't any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics - actually things which influence the genome's function - are much more important than we realised.
Robert Winston
Important
Understanding
Everybody
Increasingly
More
Longer
Genetics
Obvious
Genome
Because
Than
Any
Influence
Conventional
Realised
Which
Much
Function
Actually
Things
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