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It's not the journalists; it's the critics that I can't understand. I've never understood what kind of a person would want to criticize someone else's work.
I've thought of the independents as a stable industry for a little over two decades, and that's because I stably worked in it, so I've understood it that way.
How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?
In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was your own culture, that of the West.
You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through.
Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.
Hitler understood the demagogues' essential principle to teach or persuade is far more difficult than to stir emotion.
The concept of loyalty is distorted when it is understood to mean blind acceptance. It is correctly interpreted when it is assumed to cover honest criticism.
In the presence of their love I sensed my lonliness, and I understood for a moment, clearly, that deep and basic human desire for companionship at depth.
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.
I've never really understood the term 'Post-Impressionism' as more than a label for Cezanne, Gauguin and van Gogh.
There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.
Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.
The rules are simple and easily understood by anyone who has once seen the game, but to the totally uninitiated they appear to be hopelessly unintelligible.
I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.
I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.
In the family, writing wasn't anything anyone understood - being a writer in the real world? How could it be? We didn't have those mirrors.
[At age 92:] There are places I'd like to return to. But not as I was then but as I am now. 'Cause I'm trying to understand. And I've understood nothing.
There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.
One aspect of fast London life I have never understood, for example, is the custom of the gym. Why do people go to gyms?
..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask.
When people can't use you, they ridicule what you represent. I was lucky that I understood that, because when one does not understand that, it is very easy to be broken and to be subdued.
No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
To say it very honestly, removed from ego, standup is just a thing that I understood, a God-given ability.
Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterprise.
Frank Gehry not only understood my sense of fun and adventure but also reciprocated it and translated that feeling into his work.
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.
It's quite extraordinary that a recourse (branding/identity) which is generally regarded as so significant, and is now so ubiquitous, is so little understood.
If you look back at President Bush, nobody agreed with his policies, but you understood that he was doing things that he believed was right.
More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.
Digital payments have already made it easier to move and manage money. While there's more work to do, the potential is real and understood.
The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.
The risk of insult is the price of clarity. To be clearly understood one must speak the simple, essential truth as plainly as he is able.
I loved problems on paper, and I was good at math, but I was a mechanical engineer, and I never understood - or cared to - how a car worked.
The time has come to recover the valiant courage of our forefathers, who understood that faith and freedom are inseparable, and that they are worth fighting for.
I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.
Subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.
Hymns should have unity, graduation and mutual dependence in the thoughts, a conscious progress, a sense of completeness and be easily understood.
The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and their solution.
And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean.
At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting
The blue collar milieu was something that I really understood and resonated with me and I thought was underrepresented in American cinema.
All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.
Gratefulness is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us.
It has to be said that one of the most impressive aspects of the parliament are the brilliant unsung translators, who ensure that whatever language you speak, you are understood.
Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.
I used to wonder how anyone could treat a fellow human as God. I never understood why they would do this.
in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.
A team is not a bunch of people with job titles, but a congregation of individuals, each of whom has a role that is understood by other members.
Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
If you can't get yourself understood, you may have trouble, so you need some interpretation every now and again wherever you might be.
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.
I've never understood why some people think it's virtuous and essential to finish every book they start.
What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.
Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought.
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.
