"To understand and be understood is to be free."

-- Daniel Johnston

#Understood Quotes

“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”
“Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are?”
“Time is weird in your twenties. It's intense, and you feel like it's running out. But you'll get to thirty and see you are still here on the planet.”
“Over the years I've had more and more of an association with Nashville.”
“The biggest reason was that when I started deejaying, I'd said that the other DJs in Japan were like salaried employees who I really didn't want to emulate because they didn't even know the titles of the songs they were playing - just that they were playing a hot track or whatever - which I didn't appreciate at all. I realized that I had become just like the kind of DJ that I used to hate, with no knowledge, so I decided that I needed to be honest with myself and quit.”

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“Then the musical instruments appeared. Dadâ€™s snare drum from the house, Henryâ€™s guitar from his car, Adamâ€™s spare guitar from my room. Everyone was jamming together, singing songs: Dadâ€™s songs, Adamâ€™s songs, old Clash songs, old Wipers songs. Teddy was dancing around, the blond of his hair reflecting the golden flames. I remember watching it all and getting that tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.”
“You cannot build a superstructure on a cracked foundation.”
“observation of realities has never, to put it mildly, been one of the strengths of economic development theory.”

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