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“I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting.”

Feels Struggle Reader Interpreting Allegory

“I certainly felt I had an idea of World War II, and it's probably the idea that many people share: there was this insane aggressor, and there was really only one way to proceed in resisting him. What I didn't realize is that there were many voices belonging to reasonable, interesting, complicated people who had a different way of interpreting the possible responses to the Hitlerian menace.”

“Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.”

Law Clear Lawyer Uniforms Precise Interpreting

Author:Voltaire

“The world can only appear monochromatic to those who persist in interpreting what they experience through the lens of a single cultural paradigm, their own. For those with the eyes to see and the heart to feel, it remains a rich and complex topography of the spirit.”

World Feels Heart Eye Spirit Rich Remains Complexes Persist Lenses Paradigm Interpreting Topography Monochromatic

Book:The wayfinders: why ancient wisdom matters in the modern world

Source: The wayfinders: why ancient wisdom matters in the modern world

“It's a great tragedy when the Bible is interpreted by those who are not in love.”

Bible Tragedy Interpreting Great Tragedy

Author:Bill Johnson

“Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.”

Humans Language Computer Smarter Ambiguous Computer Language Interpreting Human Language

Author:Larry Wall

“I've always tried to insert consciousness and spirituality in my records, interpreting the writings of all cultures and religions and how they apply to life in modern times.”

Writing Culture Spirituality Consciousness Records Modern Interpreting Modern Times Insert Culture And Religion

Author:Rakim

“Our inner weighing of evidence is not a careful mathematical calculation resulting in a probabilistic estimate of truth, but more like a whirlpool blending of the objective and the personal. The result is a set of beliefs - both conscious and unconscious - that guide us in interpreting all the events of our lives.”

Belief Results Our Lives Events Conscious Evidence Careful Guides Objectives Mathematical Unconscious Calculations Interpreting Weighing Conscious And Unconscious Whirlpools

Book:War of the Worldviews: Where Science and Spirituality Meet -- and Do Not

Source: War of the Worldviews: Where Science and Spirituality Meet -- and Do Not

“It's important to stress what I didn't find. I did not prove that homosexuality is genetic, or find a genetic cause for being gay. I didn't show that gay men are born that way, the most common mistake people make in interpreting my work. Nor did I locate a gay center in the brain.”

People Men Way Important Shows Causes Born Common Mistake Brain Gay Prove Stress Homosexuality Gay Men Being Gay Interpreting

Author:Simon LeVay

“With regards to political enemies Plato had a kill-and-banish principle. ... In interpreting it , modern-day Platonists are clearly disturbed by it, even as they make elaborate attempts to defend Plato.”

Political Enemy Principles Modern Regard Plato Disturbed Interpreting Modern Day Political Enemies

Author:Karl Popper

“At first the analysing physician could do no more than discover the unconscious material that was concealed from the patient, put it together, and, at the right moment, communicate it to him. Psychoanalysis was then first and foremost an art of interpreting. Since this did not solve the therapeutic problem, a further aim quickly came in view: to oblige the patient to confirm the analyst's construction from his own memory.”

“Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.”

Decision Acting Listening Making Decisions Interpreting

Author:Pauline Oliveros

“What is crucial is the provision of opportunities for telling all the diverse stories, for interpreting membership as well as ethnicity, for making inescapable the braids of experience woven into the fabric of America's plurality.”

Wells Stories America Opportunity Crucial Diverse Fabric Provision Woven Ethnicity Membership Interpreting Braids

Book:Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change

Source: Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change

“We should let Scripture interpret us more than we interpret Scripture.”

Should Bible Scripture Interpreting

Author:Timothy Keller

“What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.”

Humans Human Beings Information Conclusion Interpreting New Information

Author:Warren Buffett

“Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what to do about the Act's limitation of tax credits to state Exchanges.”

Should States Law Left Taxes Should Have Court Congress Credit Limitation Pretense Interpreting Rewriting

Book:Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents

Source: Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents

“TV and film are very different media with different requirements. In a TV show, you have actors and fellow writers and directors, who are interpreting your work. With a novel, you only have ink, words and your reader.”

Different Shows Film Actors Novel Media Tvs Reader Directors Fellows Tv Shows Requirements Ink Interpreting

Author:Howard Gordon

“I heard that a lot and I just sort of thought, the world was an even more interesting place than the people who were making the decisions were perhaps interpreting it to be.”

People World Decision Interesting Heard Interpreting Interesting Places

Author:Gwendoline Christie

“With acting, I'm taking somebody else's work and interpreting it. Whereas with music, it's organic. It's completely myself. Nobody else is really involved with the beginning stages of it. Art is something that I haven't really put out to the public. There's a couple pictures on MySpace, but I haven't done a gallery opening or anything like that. Art is very personal to me. I haven't really shared it with too many people.”

People Art Done Acting Stage Havens Couple Involved Art Is Opening Gallery Interpreting

Author:Tinsel Korey

“To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to these pictures firsthand experience begins to retreat, to seem more and more trivial. While it once seemed that pictures had the function of interpreting reality, it now seems they have usurped it. It therefore becomes imperative to understand the picture itself, not in order to uncover a lost reality, but to determine how a picture becomes a signifying structure of its own accord.”

Reality Seems Order Next Lost Greater Television Function Structure Determine Newspapers Magazines Cinema Retreat Imperatives Accord Interpreting Signifying

Author:Douglas Crimp

“In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music.”

Writing Littles Important Country Form Complexes Singers Melody Marvelous Interpreting Popular Music

Author:Dinah Shore

“I feel we're on pretty solid ground in interpreting orbit around the sun as the primary driving force behind ice-age glaciation. The relationship is just too clear and consistent to allow reasonable doubt.”

Feels Age Force Behinds Sun Clear Doubt Driving Ice Primaries Reasonable Consistent Orbit Interpreting Driving Force Ice Age Reasonable Doubt

Author:George Kukla

“Enjoying the dream is more important than interpreting it. Therefore, don't work so hard that it stops being pleasant and exciting.”

Important Hard Dream Enjoy Exciting Pleasant Interpreting

Author:Eugene Gendlin

“I surrender it to God, knowing that the pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever it is that is causing me pain. Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever is making me sad.”

Giving Trying Humans Pain Moving Process Rooms Grief Existence Knowing Products Honor Normal Reflection Surrender God Knows Human Existence Kinder Interpreting

Author:Marianne Williamson

“What I like doing is writing and recording and much more on the, I guess, the - on that creative level. It's fun interpreting songs and all that, but I wouldn't like it as a living.”

Writing Song Fun Levels Creative Interpreting

Author:David Bowie

“The speaker tentatively reaches out with that feeling and realizes that it's kind of absurd, or at least a dangerous consolation, which is what I think is discovered as that longish sentence at the end of the poem comes to its conclusion. But here I am interpreting my own poem, which is kind of like making out with one's own high school yearbook photo.”

“The Time that Remains is a way of interpreting a certain ambience or emotion. These are the stories that my father told me over the course of fifteen or twenty years. I used to listen to him. From the cowardly part of my character, I'm always in fear of not telling the right story. I'm not interested in making epics.”

Way Years Character Stories Used Certain Courses Father Emotion Twenties Remains Not Interested Fifteen Epic Cowardly Interpreting Ambience

Author:Elia Suleiman

“Maybe we need more dialogue in terms of our faith, in terms of those who are believers, or even nonbelievers, about that aspect, and what that might mean if you were interpreting. You don't have to believe it; maybe you could draw a metaphor from it.”

Ifs Needs Believe Mean Might Term Draws Aspect Metaphor Believer Dialogue Interpreting

Author:Joseph Fiennes

“I always try to connect with what's happening in the world-reality, modernity, the 21st century, all that - and with Jil it started to feel very disconnected from the outside and how women were looking at fashion, experiencing fashion, interpreting fashion.”

World Feels Trying Reality Century Fashion Happenings 21st Century Modernity Disconnected Interpreting

Author:Raf Simons

“No matter your position, circumstances, or opportunities in life, you always have the freedom of mind to choose how you experience, interpret, and, ultimately, shape your world.”

World Mind Matter Opportunity Position Circumstances Shapes Interpreting Freedom To Choose

Book:The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive

Source: The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive

“Most Americans want judges who will stick to interpreting the law rather than making it.”

Want Law Judging Sticks Interpreting

Author:Sam Brownback

“The court's injected itself in the definition of marriage, deciding whether or not human life is worth protecting, permitting government to transfer private property from one person to another, even interpreting the Constitution on the basis of foreign and international laws.”

Humans Persons Government Law Life Is Bases Constitution Court Property International Definitions Human Life Transfers Private Property International Law Interpreting

Author:Sam Brownback

“The pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever it is that is causing me pain.”

Pain Products Reflection Interpreting

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Being around Lily Tomlin has been great, how she treats people, how she handles herself, how she goes about interpreting her character or deciding how the comedy should work.”

People Should Has Beens Character Comedy Treats Handle Lilies Interpreting

Author:Baron Vaughn

“People have different ways of interpreting history.”

People Way Different Different Ways Interpreting

Author:Nate Silver

“As a poet who has the tools for interpreting the poem differently, you can begin to deconstruct it. But the human being who's like, "I know about conversation, I know about language, I know about hard times," will approach the poem differently.”

Knows Humans Hard Language Human Beings Poet Conversation Approach Tools Hard Times Interpreting

Author:Jacqueline Woodson

“What makes you good looking is how you are expressing yourself and that comes from how you are interpreting life.”

Looking Good Express Yourself Interpreting

Author:Hrithik Roshan

“The government doesn't want us to know what they're doing, how they're interpreting the law, how they're interpreting and redefining their powers, and increasingly, how they're redefining the boundaries of our rights and our liberties, broadly, socially, and categorically without our involvement.”

Knows Want Government Law Liberty Rights Boundaries Want U Involvement Interpreting Redefining

Author:Edward Snowden

“The trouble with Christianity was that by about 150, there were hardly any Jews left in the Christian church, and so from that time until the last part of the twentieth century, the only people reading the gospels and interpreting the gospels and writing commentaries on the gospels were gentiles who were simply ignorant of the Jewish background, and I just thought they were prejudiced.”

People Writing Christian Lasts Reading Left Church Christianity Trouble Century Jew Backgrounds Ignorant Twentieth Century Commentary Interpreting Christian Church Gentiles

Author:John Shelby Spong

“If I was an actor, it would be like a part that was me. It has to be real to me. I have to make it mine. I really enjoy taking a song I feel that way about, and sometimes it can take a long time to come up with just the right touch. I think that's really my greatest talent, interpreting.”

Ifs Thinking Way Feels Long Real Sometimes Would Be Song Actors Enjoy Talent Mines Long Time Come Up Being Real Interpreting

Author:Steve Young

“There's not enough of those inclusive projects where I feel like I'm interpreting a human being and not just a statistic or a nationality.”

Feels Humans Enough Human Beings Projects Nationality Interpreting

Author:Karla Souza

“I happen to be a scientist. My background is in nuclear physics. I was a nuclear engineer. But I don't see any incompatibility at all with my religious faith and God the creator of everything and the incompatibility between when the earth was created as specified in the Bible. I don't see any incompatibility there because those that were interpreting God's overall message didn't know anything about modern-day science.”

Knows Happens Earth Religious Modern Messages Scientist Creator Nuclear Physics Backgrounds Engineers Religious Faith Interpreting Modern Day Incompatibility Nuclear Physics Faith And God

Author:Jimmy Carter

“Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.”

May Art Form Ability Practice Limits Visuals Cheat Habitual Interpreting Nonverbal

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“Unfortunately, people are re-interpreting the Constitution as a living document, and it's not. It's a solid-based document and it shouldn't be played with.”

People Constitution Documents Interpreting

Author:Chuck Norris

“We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.”

May Law Smart Constitution Come Up Lawyer Interpreting Technicalities

Author:Dan Quayle

“One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.”

Reason Father Names Known Cases Century West Philosopher Interpreting Admirer Rushdie

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I love interpreting other people's music.”

People Interpreting

Author:Katey Sagal

“The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.”

Whole Character Age Opportunity New Age Interpreting Great Character

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?”

Ifs Dream Awake Our Dreams Interpreting

Book:Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.”

World Art Artist Creativity Creative Add Contact Contribution Creative Process Spectators Qualifications Interpreting

Book:Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company

Source: Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company

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