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I loved problems on paper, and I was good at math, but I was a mechanical engineer, and I never understood - or cared to - how a car worked.
I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am.
When I was young, clothes were really just about what fit, because Ashley and I were so tiny. So I understood fit before I understood style.
My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.
If you look back at President Bush, nobody agreed with his policies, but you understood that he was doing things that he believed was right.
Force me to choose my best book, and I always come back to 'Gorilla.' It was the first time I felt I understood what picture books could do.
My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church.
Pastors have historically understood their primary battle to be not the battle to build a big church, but the battle against the power of sin.
I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me.
I think my wife understood from the day I met her how important she was to me and how important it was for me becoming a husband and a father.
As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.
Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.
Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.
I never understood when people go, 'Oh my gosh, it's so easy being pregnant.' No, it's hard. It's the most beautiful thing, yes, but it's hard.
Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
I can't claim to 'understand' 'Byzantium,' if any dance work can be 'understood,' but whenever I see it, I sense that it's charged with meaning.
The record business has always mystified me. Sometimes there are reasons why things sell or don't sell that can't be understood by mere mortals.
No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.
A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.
I never understood the point of juicing - I always thought I could get enough nutrients from eating fruit and vegetables - but now I'm a convert.
Nirvana is next level. The songs are really cool to connect with on a more mature level, and I don't think I really understood that when I was 15.
I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue - it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well.
Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.
The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite.
It's a weird thing to say, but it would appear to me axiomatic that if you understood fully what I was doing and appreciated it, you would like it.
In civilized society, women have the ultimate power. It's women who say "no," in civilized society. That's what you feminists never have understood.
I think race and racism is probably the most studied social, economic, and political phenomenon in this country, but it's also the least understood.
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
What has happened to us has happened to everyone or only to us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood.
Inflammation as understood in man and the higher animals is a phenomenon that almost always results from the intervention of some pathogenic microbe.
You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
I understand why people achieve a level of fame and disappear, I never understood it before, but it's an attractive prospect to walk away from it all.
You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.
I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.
I've never understood why the end of a relationship - especially one involving children - has to immediately signal a descent into hatred and toxicity.
I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.
Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.
I eat in a strange way, but I enjoy it. Everything became well when I finally understood that I enjoy being hungry. Normally, I only eat in the evening.
Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at the time.
I know some people who never have any difficulties to speak of. The moment I understood your premisses, I felt sure you had a real foundation to hold on.
I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.
In most polls there are always about 5 percent of the people who 'don't know.' What isn't generally understood is that it's the same people in every poll.
Roosevelt's strength was that he understood he would never get anything through the Republican old guard, his party, unless the public pressured Congress.
Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.
A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.
My formative years were all about 'Star Wars' - the first three, not the last crap, obviously. I understood 'Star Trek' but it was too caricatured for me.
It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims.
A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.
I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable.