#stood

I'm so misunderstood! ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#misunderstood

One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#anywhere #blaming #circumstances #day #even

This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them. ↗

— William Bligh

#beginning #collecting #day #first #had

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#acquiring #anything #been #evils #greed

I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#clarinet #double #i #instrument #main

I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that. ↗

— Fan Binbing

#being #being misunderstood #explain #grown #i

Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#important #represents #tool #understood #very

I don't think that early hip hop stood out to be a social critique. A lot of fans of mine think that hip hop's ultimate responsibility is to critique social structures. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#early #fans #hip #hip hop #hop

President Kennedy understood the importance of equal pay for equal work and signed historic legislation that gave women around the country hope that one day their wages would be on par with that of their male counterparts. ↗

— Rosa DeLauro

#counterparts #country #day #equal #equal pay

Talking back and being quite aggressive about stuff and not giving a care in the world about anyone. So it was more, I think, that way and I think that's what happened in that party when I stood in between two people. ↗

— Caroline Dhavernas

#aggressive #anyone #back #being #between