#understood

I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately. ↗

— Peter Falk

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Bertelsmann understood our vision when they first invested in us... They still believe in that vision. ↗

— Shawn Fanning

#first #invested #our #still #understood

I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me. ↗

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was. ↗

— Mary Cheney

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My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#departure #described #hollywood #i #understood

I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

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The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#appreciated #battle #described #easily #great

As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in. ↗

— Benny Goodman

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