#stood

I was signed by L.A. Reid on Arista Records when I was 16. He understood me and believed in me. Arista folded and I got put on RCA or whatever, then there were new people there, and every six months it changes and more new people come in. ↗

— Avril Lavigne

#changes #come #every #folded #got

You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal. ↗

— Avril Lavigne

#always #because #complain #deal #i

We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us. ↗

— Henry Lawson

#asserting #become #carry #closer #consequence

I became interested in making books, starting about 1965, when I did the Serial Project #1, deciding that I needed a small book to show how the work could be understood and how the system worked. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

#became #book #books #could #deciding

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#like #misunderstood #who #writes

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#believe #delight #demonstrates #having #leads

There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir= and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#cartooning #cartoonist #definitely #disney #early

The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that. ↗

— Francis Lockier

#bible #book #chiefly #divine #necessary

If that for which the Spanish Empire has stood since the days of Charles V is right, then everything for which the United States stands and has always stood is wrong. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#charles #days #empire #everything #right

Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#gone #had #happening #liza #mother