#stand

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#convincing #going #had #hard #hard time

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city. ↗

— Frank Gehry

#city #each #happen #i #i think

It is very important for people to understand that the United States of America and no country around the world can devalue its way to prosperity, to be competitive. It is not a viable, feasible strategy, and we will not engage in it. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#around #competitive #country #devalue #engage

On the unofficial level it was a glorious moment in our national life because young people decided that this had to stop, that they could no longer stand the shedding of blood in this tragic adventure in Southeast Asia. ↗

— William Kunstler

#asia #because #blood #could #decided

The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable. ↗

— Lillian Gish

#even #explain #get #i #i believe

Now we understand much more clearly. why people from all over the world want to come to New York and to America. It's called freedom. ↗

— Rudy Giuliani

#called #clearly #come #freedom #more

You're talking to someone who really understands rock music. ↗

— Tipper Gore

#really #rock #rock music #someone #talking

The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#funny #funny thing #heart #i #jock

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light. ↗

— Chris Cornell

#believe #coming #greet #last #light

A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone. ↗

— Graham Coxon

#like #me #microphone #more #over