Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
To fully understand the black immigrant experience in the U.S., we must understand it not in contrast to the African-American experience, but central to it.
I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.
I don't like controversies. I try to understand where a person comes from and where he is.
Controversies are a package deal in this industry. You just have to understand that and accept it.
People don't understand that where I come from, everyone is either a convict, been in jail, been in a gang, is a hooligan of some sorts, but those are my brothers, my family and the people that I travel with. Those are the people that I roll with.
Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.
Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really don't need a cookbook anymore.
There are a lot of things you learn from playing wide. You also understand the way that you can coordinate with the front three or front two.
There does seem to be a sense in which physics has gone beyond what human intuition can understand. We shouldn't be too surprised about that because we're evolved to understand things that move at a medium pace at a medium scale. We can't cope with the very tiny scale of quantum physics or the very large scale of relativity.
I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
From what I understand about Shakespeare - which isn't a lot - there was no copyright law when he was writing. He sampled at will, and it wasn't seen as a bad thing.
Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
There's plenty about God that I don't understand and can't explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He's for us.
Hollywood does not understand Middle America, and it certainly does not understand and, in fact, despises, the core values of the country.
Conservatives are time-biders. And they understand, as Corey Robin explains in his indispensable book 'The Reactionary Mind,' that the direction of human history is not on their side - that is why they are reactionaries - because, other things equal, civilization does tend towards more inclusion, more emancipation, more liberalism.
I have written about cultural dislocation, and I understand the corrosive effect of diminished expectations.
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
That would be getting up at 5 am... I don't understand why film's shoot such brutal hours. I think it'd be worth it to not be so strictly cost-effective and have an 8 hour day. The film's would benefit in the end.
I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.
