Quotes About Understanding

Slang is really coded talk. I can say a few things, in front of somebody, that only people who know what I'm saying are going to pick up on.

People in real life don't get ballplayers' humor, the way we talk in the clubhouse.

It's difficult in the media to talk about a complex issue when you don't have a lot of time without being general.

In recruiting, you talk about anything and everything a recruit wants to talk about that seems relevant.

No, I didn't forget Samoan - I understand it when you talk to me but, you know, to put phrases together I sound like I do in English.

All of the coding and hacking stuff that we do and I talk about, I always have them explain what it means so I know what I'm saying.

There ain't a man livin' who hasn't talked to his dog.

I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.

My mother was a very quiet woman and people say that she didn't get much of a chance to talk because my grandmother and I talked so much.

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

I grew up in a household where we talked about race all the time, and that's sort of in me. So if I become the Anthony Bourdain of race and culture, then great!

Growing up, me and my mom never really talked about me being gay.

You need to see what the actor needs. This one wants to be talked to privately. That one doesn't mind if you block it for them. Just tell me the truth and I'll adapt to it.

Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her.

My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.

People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them.

We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.

I didn't really work with Vin on it except we talked about it a little bit. I think it was kind of cool because we didn't think it was going to be that emotional. I don't think Vin knew I was going to be that emotional.

When I was a kid, I hated being talked to as a kid. I don't know if all kids feel that way, but I seem to remember awful things in the crib, something like people doing baby talk in the crib and sticking their big, fat faces in there and scaring me. So I always talk to kids as if they were a person.

I know a little bit about deaf culture because a friend of mine has been in the deaf culture for awhile. Over the course of 25 years, she and I have talked about many of the issues and concerns for deaf people and deaf culture.

Acting has never been a thing that me and my dad have talked about. It's like footballers: when they get together, I bet the last thing they talk about is football.

With 'A Hijacking' I didn't talk to anyone who had been hijacked, but with 'A War,' I talked to as many soldiers as possible trying to understand how is it in Afghanistan.

People all want and need different emotional responses - some people like to be talked down when they're angry; some people want to be left alone.

I listen to music very intensely as well: When I listen to an artist I really love, I feel like I know them. I feel like I understand what they're thinking about, even though I've never met them or talked to them.