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Frank Gehry not only understood my sense of fun and adventure but also reciprocated it and translated that feeling into his work.
Dad never understood why Ridley wanted to go to art school, and then I came along six years later and wanted to do the same thing.
I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.
I was lucky that I could work with directors like Kamal, Lal Jose and Sibi Malayil. They understood music and gave me a free hand.
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so.
Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't deserve my own pity.
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
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.
My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.
Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.
You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal.
I'm not someone who is going to give in to a lot of pressure. I've always understood that everything is not always going to be good.
Books and theater were the way I understood the world and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how to live a good life.
From an early age, I understood the concept that, if you're not the star, then your job is to not pull attention away from the star.
Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.
Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.
I've never quite understood that feeling: that you arrive in a strange place, yet you want to have nothing but familiar experiences.
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.
I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.
I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.
For Mantle, the Yankees' locker room was a sanctuary, a safe haven where he was understood, accepted and, when necessary, exonerated.
As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
I have never understood models. I find it really hard to find beauty in that or to discover beauty because the beauty was so obvious.
I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship.
When I was 13, I saw him [Elvis] perform live and I suddenly understood what sex is all about. I was screaming at the top of my lungs.
I never understood the concept of showing everything in the trailer. Why go to a movie if there's no surprise? I can't do it like that.
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.
I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone's life.
When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent.
Nero may have understood how to tune his cithern, but he disgraced his imperial office both by slackening and by tightening the strings.
I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.
You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through.
The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.
Obama better understood community organisation and peer-to-peer communication than any recent candidate, and we are applying that lesson.
Being on the cover of 'Vogue' at 15 meant nothing to me. I never really understood what it was they were looking at, what they saw in me.
I definitely got into a lot of fights when I was a kid. I never understood it. I was one of those quiet kids. I never picked with no one.
Any time one seeks to produce for a larger public one inevitably has to drop material that would only be understood by a particular group.
The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.
The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
The Moon may not be quite as appealing as Mars, but it's still a complex and poorly understood world, with many questions still unanswered.
I hope to be remembered as someone who promoted positive change in Mexican business and society - even if this is not currently understood.
Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.
I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.
I've never understood people who treat their loved ones worse and with less respect than they would a total stranger or minor acquaintance.