#stood

When I was a young prosecutor, I got called to testify against my boss. I could have backed down, but I didn't. I stood up to him. And he fired me for it. ↗

— Susana Martinez

#backed #boss #called #could #down

I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices. ↗

— Mary Stuart Masterson

#dictate #disadvantaged #field #helen #her

And to understand this, I think this is a most important point where I would like always to be understood what we do with the New York Philharmonic. That the meaning of the music is number one. ↗

— Kurt Masur

#i #i think #important #important point #like

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

#always #different #friends #i #into

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. ↗

— Tristan Tzara

#art #journalism #product #understood #work

I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.' ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#acting #been #different #drama #drama school

If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the essential reality we know, then what happens on earth matters even more than we think, for the Christian life becomes a continuation of the unfolding work of Jesus, who will one day return to set the world to rights. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#becomes #christian #christian life #continuation #day

My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical in the air. There's always this cloudy, moody sky and it's challenging. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#always #because #came #challenging #cloudy

King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#born #georgia #having #king #reared

I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood. ↗

— Max Muller

#books #happiest #hours #i #light