Quotes About Understanding

I've been on my fair share of quiz shows so I'm very empathetic with the contestants and I know exactly how they feel.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

In general, between an actor and a character, there needs to be a falling in love, if you will - which I'm saying in quotes.

I didn't quite understand for a little while just how loyal and rabid that fan base is for 'Gilmore Girls' until I started to get out there and see people all over the country.

Race is more like a language than it is like the way in which we are biologically constituted.

While it is desirable to build up the colored race, we must not sacrifice our best and purest white friends.

I never though much about race.

No single race has a monopoly on racism.

Race, to me, is a very blurry thing.

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

When I won Miss World, I wasn't even 18, and I only remember, like, I thought of it as a day in the races or something. It didn't feel like it was Miss World of the Millennium Year, the change of the century. I didn't understand the magnitude of it for at least a couple of years.

If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.

I have to give my family credit for putting up with the racket, because as some of you may know, its not the easiest thing in the world to live with a kid who's trying to become a rock and roll drummer.

Being mean about other people isn't on my radar.

I am a very radical person - as radical now as I was when I was younger. So my books all have in common my search for understanding of the terrible world we are living in and ways to change it.

Fiction, at its best, is a radical act of intimacy. It seeks to join, to merge, to know deeply; and, as with intimacy, there is a way in which it cannot be faked.

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

I met the Radicals and we liked each other reciprocally.

I don't do radio or TV. I do people.

I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.

People seem to take as much offence as they possibly can these days - it's almost a new type of greed, a new kind of road rage.

As in all matters involving love, which has so many different meanings, you find that the feeling that we label 'love' is not a simple feeling, it's a very complex one. Under the heading 'love' can come all sorts of rage and desperation.

All human beings are inherently good, so when someone goes off the rails, there must be some mitigating factor - he was bullied, was a loner, had an abusive father, or a domineering mother, etc.

Well you know, I think a lot of us in marriage know that you play different roles at different times. And Mitt can get very intense, and I can have the ability to kind of talk him off the rails sometimes and say, 'Hey let's look at what is really important and let's do that now.'