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I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable.
Javier Bardem

Feeling, Person, Trying

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.
Carol P. Christ

Life, Religion, Death

The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.
Ben Affleck

Enough, Old, Failed

There are a lot of sacrifices a mother makes when she's raising a child by herself. I saw it when I was growing up, watching all my mother did for me. But it wasn't until recently that I fully understood the price she paid because of how we had to struggle.
Christina Applegate

Mother, Struggle, Child

When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.
Gary Vaynerchuk

Different, Here, Market

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
Alexis Carrel

Knowledge, Science, Reality

You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.
Nick Rhodes

Music, Sad, Happy

For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why. It's cheaper to work on film, it's far better looking, it's the technology that's been known and understood for a hundred years, and it's extremely reliable.
Christopher Nolan

Work, Technology, Why

I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.
Samuel L. Jackson

Through, Whole, Means

I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology.
Whitfield Diffie

Technology, Public, Expect

I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable.
Joel Coen

Funny, Sometimes, Characters

For me, I wanted somebody that got me musically, that understood that I'm an artist and this is who I am. I'm not going to be like another artist on your label, probably - hopefully. I found all those things with the Broken Bow group.
Joe Nichols

Broken, Another, Wanted

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
Nina Simone

Life, Music, Teacher

When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.
Katey Sagal

Work, Father, Hard

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.
Murray Kempton

Beauty, Men, Best

I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks.
Trevor Dunn

School, Why, Metal

I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.
Jane Campion

Friendship, Put, Big

Sometimes I haven't understood why he has done things and why things happened, but I know that God has a plan.
Jan Brewer

I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.
Andre Rieu

Family, Mother, Black

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.
Noam Chomsky

Waiting, Happen, Financial

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.
George Gurdjieff

Knowledge, Help, Him

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.
George William Russell

Joy, Forgive, Read

I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family.
Ethel Waters

Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.
Ethel Waters

Best, Problems, Able

I was always into music. And none of my friends were really into music the same way I was. So it was just different. It was really not very well understood by most of my friends. They didn't tease me about it - they just didn't really relate.
Martina McBride

Music, Different, Friends

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
Beverly Sills

Reality, Person, Everything

She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.
Thomas B. Macaulay

She, Church, Deal

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.
John Hawkes

Understand, Before, Why

Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother.
Lorna Luft

Mother, Through, Gone

No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.
Ellsworth Huntington

Nature, Knowledge, Human

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