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Especially in the West, people want to understand Asia on a deeper level because it's become the engine of the world economy, like it or not.
I think it's becoming cool to have mental toughness or to meditate. It's a thing, but I don't think people really understand the value of it.
I understand blackness from the inside out. What my goal is, is to allow the world to see the humanity that I know personally to be the truth.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
Until white people understand that racism is embedded in everything, including our consciousness and socialisation, then we cannot go forward.
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.
Reconstruction is the great black hole that remains to be filled. Even experts on the Civil War don't really understand its full significance.
It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.
They're never gonna not put you in a box. It's something that they have to do, because nine times out of 10 people don't understand creativity.
Some people look at big things, and other people look at very small things, but in a sense, we're all trying to understand the world around us.
If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than through hip-hop.
I'm religious about salted butter. I don't understand how it happened that everyone thought we should all have sweet butter. I blame the French.
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.
I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently love each other.
Molde fits me very well; Man United fits me very well because it's in me. It's in your personality. It's ingrained in you. I understand the club.
Once you accept and understand yourself, you do things for the right reasons, not the wrong ones, rather than being fuelled by your insecurities.
It's very important for us all to understand that we are interconnected and we need to hold hands together, especially when the going gets tough.
The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
Our kids have to understand that drinking underage is a poor decision that could drastically affect their chances to achieve the goals they've set.
I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.
People need to understand that I came this far being chubby and all that. Imagine how far I could go actually being in good shape and looking good.
Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me.
The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.
People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.
But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.
We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
I didn't understand why people cared about my hair or my makeup or my clothing. It was like, 'I'm a prosecutor. I'm not a model. I'm not an actress.'
It's not just for its influence on us, but to know that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence.
Britain is just a melting pot for every culture. Like a pot for every culture around the world mixed into one. Artists over here understand that more.
The better we understand how identities and power work together from one context to another, the less likely our movements for change are to fracture.
I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed.
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
I see no point in exchanging something that I understand, know, love and think will have a great future for something else that I know much less about.
People who don't understand fighting think you need to hate somebody to beat them. But I keep hate and anger out of boxing, because it causes mistakes.
It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.
For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.
I think time and time again, in reality, psychological notions and economic notions interplay, and the man who doesn't understand both is a damned fool.
Whether we're Democrats, Republicans, or independents - it does not matter. We all understand that an attack on any one of us is an attack on all of us.
You cannot just exercise your rights and get away without performing your responsibilities. Understand that it should not be about 'me' but rather 'us.'
It's important to understand you can't remove the historical context of racially charged stereotypes or slurs as much as we like to pretend that we can.
All those haters, they don't understand my music. It's very unique. And I don't blame them. Hate my music. But my real cult fanbase, they like the music.
Few people understand the magnitude of the catastrophe that happened late in the 1980s when the Communist Party had failed to modernize the Soviet Union.
You must make the product interesting, not just make the ad different. And that's what too many of the copywriters in the U.S. today don't yet understand.
No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.
You don't have to know anything about art to appreciate it or to look at it. There aren't any hidden secrets or things that you're supposed to understand.