Larry King
Television Host
"I have never understood the Iowa caucus."
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Understood
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Kanye West
Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
"I don't expect to be understood at all."
Paramahansa Yogananda
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!"
Aristotle
Philosopher
"Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously."
Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher, Theologian
"Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards."
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"Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image."
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"I miss the movies. Still, I understood that my kind of movie has had its day. I thought it was over for me."
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"I've never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don't allow themselves any other activities."
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"..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask."
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"Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood."
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"Understand before you pass judgement. But how do you pass judgement once you have understood?"
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"I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust."
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"A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience."
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"Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood."
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"Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood."
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"He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood."
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"Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted."
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"Seek to understand before you seek to be understood."
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"What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed."
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"If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!"
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"You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before"
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"Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites."
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"My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it."
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"God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission."
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"If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you."
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