#understood

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me. ↗

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was. ↗

— Mary Cheney

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My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up. ↗

— Gene Tierney

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The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York, he lived at home. The hopes he had for his family and for me, he had for all Americans. I think Americans understood this. ↗

— Chelsea Clinton

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Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens. ↗

— Alan Cumming

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They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood. ↗

— Janet Frame

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But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood. ↗

— Ted Kotcheff

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The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language. ↗

— Roman Jakobson

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Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother. ↗

— Jeffrey Jones

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