#understood

My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

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I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act. ↗

— Willie Mays

#always #ball #black #comfortable #enjoyed

I thought I understood the story very well, because I've lived with it for so long. But movies change and take on a life of their own once they start to be made, and you have to keep your eye on the real ball, not the ball that's in your head. ↗

— Andrew McCarthy

#because #change #eye #head #i

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

— Tristan Tzara

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Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children. ↗

— Ho Chi Minh

#children #even #men #old #readily

We were great mates. We didn't really go out together because we never really had the time to go out. But we were with each other all the time anyway because we were working all the time. We could sit down and talk for hours, and we still can. We just understood each other. ↗

— Dannii Minogue

#because #could #down #each #go

I think that Scottish people, like Canadians, are often misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends and relatives is how quickly it can go from love to anger. It's a great dynamic. ↗

— Mike Myers

#anger #canadians #dynamic #friends #go

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. ↗

— Thandie Newton

#convert #could #eating #enough #fruit

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#first #first time #going #i #love

At least I had that, one guy understood me. ↗

— Yoko Ono

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