I want to make an album my grandma and my fans are going to like. I want to make my grandma understand a drop and make club fans understand a song.

I’m certainly not a perfect mother, but I’m trying to be what my mother wasn’t for me. My mother’s battled depression, so I understand it now as a parent, some of the things that she...

We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that...

Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin...

When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can’t. I find it distracting. Even when the music is just instrumental or has lyrics in...

It’s got to do with putting yourself in other people’s shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves...

I suppose because I have a good ear, I could pick out harmonies and learn by ear. I still think that you have to have an ear for music to really be able to feel...

Just an hour with you, and I understand why we had to meet.

It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish.

Science tells me time is an illusion.My heart tells me time must exist.My mind tells me I’ll never understand time.

Man’s constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter. No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when...

I understand the worries of many – not only here in this auditorium -, and some have already written to me to say that technical progress has lowered the threshold that stops people from helping...

I honestly don’t understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It’s silly.

A lot of the music, and especially rap, I don’t understand.

He’s computerized, but I won’t let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car.

I am in the habit, like most British people, of holding the door open for people. But in the U.S., people don’t understand it. You get odd looks or doors slammed in your face.

No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic and we believe that this nominee is...

At the end of the day, you sign a record deal and you understand where it could go if you had the right song.

I understand that it’s hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions… we’ll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we’ll have to work on overcoming it.

I understand it’s my role to realize people’s dreams.

Until I went to rehab, I didn’t understand what it did.

People understand we’re on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the American people and strengthen our country for the long run.

If you want to understand what is going on in the White House today, you have to begin with Barack Obama.

A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.

I am an ardent supporter of capitalism – but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.

We’re open people. I don’t understand these Hollywood people who don’t want to put their real life on TV, yet they want people to watch them and be fans with them.

You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don’t do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.

Honestly, every person, every individual has a process, and my philosophy, whether it’s an actor or an animator, is you try to understand the process that person has so you can get the most out...

Some feel the love; some understand it, and some sense it; but no matter what you do, love is always there if you search for it, and deep inside everyone’s heart you will find your...

Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don’t understand the language that you’re singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.

We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is not for sale.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: ‘I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I’ve never quite sorted them out.’

To understand the universe, you must know the language of time.

I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.

And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the character, man, it’s an easy jump for me, because I understand what it’s...

We’ve got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed.

I don’t know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven’t read a lot of books. I just don’t think you’re equipped to deal with the demands and decisions of life, particularly...

I hadn’t actually watched ‘Entourage.’ But I do understand that if you know and love that show, Jeremy Piven is about as good as it gets.

If you look at where the tried and true of Silicon Valley VC’s are investing, it’s in people who understand what it takes, who’ve been through it and have a network of people they can...

Loving oneself isn’t hard, when you understand who and what ‘yourself’ is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair or the...

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.

Remain open-minded, even when you believe yourself to be a king among peasants. You never know what blessings can be gained or crises averted just by listening.

Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it’s Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard...

I recognize that virtually every company that comes in here has a perspective. It’s often not difficult to understand why they have the perspective that they have.

CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there’s a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn’t work for the police, and that people that speak to...

I need the money. People don’t understand how little money you make in a band.

Most of today’s black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.

Hearts In MeIf I look to the world with hearts in my eyesThen surely I’ll be intrigued and inspired.If I touch the world with hearts in my handsThen surely I’ll learn how to understand.If I...