#understand

I think people like to think I'm in some way financially dependent on my family - on my dad - but the fact of the matter is I've been emancipated from my father since I was 14 years old. That's something people don't know or understand. ↗

— Devon Aoki

#dad #dependent #fact #family #father

The Masters is a very important tournament. You don't want to jeopardize your chances. The sponsors understand that. ↗

— Stuart Appleby

#important #jeopardize #masters #sponsors #tournament

We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#been #changed #democracy #freedom #got

Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#condition #human #human mind #mind #necessary

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats. ↗

— Richard Bach

#bodies #characters #fictional #heartbeats #more

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so. ↗

— Howard Baker

#any #challenge #considerable #cult thing #deal

We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is. ↗

— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#been #development #give #given #here

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story. ↗

— James Baldwin

#admire #america #because #been #his

I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#beneath #creature #dedicated #go #going

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#avarice #beauty #bid #both #disinterested