Interpretation Quotes - Page 18

• Yet there are some critics in the nonfiction world who still look at some of today's stranger interpretations of the essay and say "You don't belong here. That's not how we do things." I think that's problematic.

  John D'Agata

  Thinking, World, Today

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• To say anything about women and men without marking oneself as either feminist or anti-feminist, male-basher or apologist for men seems as impossible for a woman as trying to get dressed in the morning without inviting interpretations of her character. Sitting at the conference table musing on these matters, I felt sad to think that we women didn't have the freedom to be unmarked that the men sitting next to us had. Some days you just want to get dressed and go about your business. But if you're a woman, you can't, because there is no unmarked woman.

  Deborah Tannen

  Morning, Character, Men

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• There is no such thing as an objective interpretation.

  Devdutt Pattanaik

  Objectives

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• If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations of mind is an equally nervous preoccupation with the self as machine.

  Sherry Turkle

  Self, Mind, Fascination

  Sherry Turkle (2005). “The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit”, p.29, MIT Press

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• Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.

  William Whewell

  Men, Interpreter

  William Whewell (1847). “The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded Upon Their History: In Two Volumes”, p.443

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• There's a difference between the way I see it and the character's interpretation of the events, so the rules within the film are the rules within the film.

  David Robert Mitchell

  Character, Differences, Events

  Source: collider.com

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• I must choose my words carefully in order to avoid any negative interpretation. Among politicians, this is a tactic known as lying.

  Pat Paulsen

  Lying, Order, Negative

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• God either rules as sovereign in interpretation over *all* areas of life or none.

  Greg L. Bahnsen

  Sovereign, Areas

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• Maybe da Vinci didn’t serve lamb in his painting of the Last Supper, but there was room for interpretation. Jesus himself was the lamb led to the slaughter.

  Monica Drake

  Jesus, Lambs, Lasts

  Monica Drake (2013). “Clown Girl: A Novel”, p.192, Hawthorne Books

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• To choose to live with a dog is to agree to participate in a long process of interpretation, a mutual agreement though the human being holds most of the cards.

  Mark Doty

  Dog, Agreement, Long

  Mark Doty (2009). “Dog Years: A Memoir”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• And it has been the paleontologist- my own breed-who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: ...We paleontologist have said that the history of life supports that interpretation [gradual adaptive change], all the while knowing that it does not.

  Niles Eldredge

  Reality, Ideas, Knowing

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• I wouldn't claim to know what another person is thinking. I can imagine it, but it's my interpretation, and I try to make that clear. It's my vision of what I think their life is. I don't think there are empirical truths in that regard.

  Cass McCombs

  Thinking, Vision, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that it is creating as a revolt against silence, creating when both the creation and the reception, the writing and the reading, are dangerous undertakings, disobedience to a directive.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Reading, Writing, Mean

  Edwidge Danticat (2011). “Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work”, p.11, Vintage

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• I asked myself, 'How are you going to change all these people, they have different values, different customs, different language, different interpretations?' So that’s the time I joined the Ku Klux Klan in Miami. The reason I joined is to see if I could change them. So I dissolved that organization in a month-and-a-half, alone. [Applause] Then I joined the White Citizen Council. The WCC hates foreigners – all foreigners. So I joined that organization; I dissolved it in one month.

  Jacque Fresco

  Hate, Organization, Ku Klux Klan

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• Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world

  Charles Ives

  Expression, Soul, World

  Charles Ives (2004). “Essays Before a Sonata”, p.19, 1st World Publishing

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• This is the problem with language, and this is what makes silent movies fun, because the connection with them, me or the audience is not with the language. There's no question of interpretation of what we are saying it's just about feeling. You create your own story

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Fun, Feelings, Connections

  "Cannes Interview: ‘The Artist’ Director Michel Hazanavicius and Star Berenice Bejo". Interview with Raffi Asdourian, thefilmstage.com. May 18, 2011.

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• Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers.

  Che Guevara

  Powerful, Justice, Tools

  "On Development". Speech delivered at the plenary session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, www.marxists.org. March 25, 1964.

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• It is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct — if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.

  W. I. Thomas

  Real, Men, Important

  The Child in America ch. 13 (1928). Coauthored with Dorothy Swaine Thomas.

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• Art, to me is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. The word 'Impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted. [...] The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe. They take the ready-made axioms laid down by others, and walk blindly in a rut without trying to see for themselves.

  Childe Hassam

  Art, Eye, Acceptance

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• A generic vampire tale in the Underworld vein that comes closer to the infamous Van Helsing than a memorable re-interpretation of a legendary monster.

  James Berardinelli

  Memorable, Vampire, Monsters

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• Becaise I love God, I want to handle his truth with accuracy, clarity, and specificity. I want to build bridges of understanding from the wisdom of the Word to the details of people's lives. And because I love people, I will not be satisfied with lobbing grenades of general truth at them. Rather, through good questions, committed listening, and careful interpretation, I will enter their world with the understanding necessary to bring Christ's help to where it is really needed.

  Paul David Tripp

  Bridges, People, Understanding

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• Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.

  Vernon Howard

  Block, Acceptance, Simple

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• Unfortunately, philosophers of science usually regard scientific realism and scientific anti-realism as monistic doctrines. The assumption is that there is one goal of all scientific inference - finding propositions that are true, or finding propositions that are predictively accurate. In fact, there are multiple goals. Sometimes realism is the right interpretation of a scientific problem, while at other times instrumentalism is.

  Elliott Sober

  Goal, Doctrine, Facts

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I suggest that Black feminist thought consists of specialised knowledge created by African-American women which clarifies a standpoint of and for Black women. In other words, Black feminist thought encompasses theoretical interpretations of Black women's reality by those who live it.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Reality, Feminist, African American

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• Edward Conard provides a provocative interpretation of the causes of the global financial crisis and the policies needed to return to rapid growth. Whether you agree or not, this analysis is well worth reading.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Reading, Growth, Analysis

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