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• The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.

  Hannah Arendt

  Knowledge, Men, Earth

  Hannah Arendt (1973). “The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Baron Vaughn

  Character, People, Lilies

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Reflection, Products

  "A Conversation with Marianne Williamson: Powerful pioneer in new thought and spirituality". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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.

  Sam Brownback

  Government, Law, Definitions

  Senate Confirmation Hearings - Day 1, www.nytimes.com. January 9, 2006.

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• 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.

  Matthew Zapruder

  School, Yearbook, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If confirmed, [Judge of the Supreme Court] will write the words that will either broaden or narrow our rights for the rest of your working life. You will be interpreting the Constitution in which we as a people place our faith and on which our freedoms as a nation rest. And on a daily basis, the words of your opinions will affect countless individuals as they seek protection behind the courthouse doors.

  Herb Kohl

  Writing, Rights, Doors

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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

  Eugene Gendlin

  Dream, Important, Enjoy

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• It all depends on the directors. Working closely with a director is the main job of a film composer. Interpreting what he perceives as a color, an emotion or mood is very abstract. A director tells you something he wants and then you have to run back...

  Danny Elfman

  Running, Jobs, Color

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  George Kukla

  Ice, Doubt, Age

  "Despite Global Warming, Scientists Say to Expect Another Ice Age—In 5,000 Years". George Kukla's remarks at the international symposium convened by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, www.columbia.edu. February 25, 2000.

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• It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.

  Antonin Scalia

  Melting, Constitution, Illusion

  Antonin Scalia (2016). “Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents”, p.58, Regnery Publishing

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• The proper role of the judiciary is one of interpreting and applying the law, not making it.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Law, Roles, Judiciary

  New York Times, February 23, 1984.

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• Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping her. And we must hazard them to win our prize. Those among us who are unwilling to expose their ideas to the hazard of refutation do not take part in the scientific game.

  Karl Popper

  Mean, Winning, Games

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.280, Routledge

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• I had long since insisted upon interpreting the things that Fate forced me to do as victories of my own will and intelligence, and now this bad habit had grown into a sort of frenzied arrogance. In the nature of what I was calling my intelligence there was a touch of something illegitimate, a touch of the sham pretender who has been placed on the throne by some freak chance. This dolt of a usurper could not foresee the revenge that would inevitably be wreaked upon his stupid despotism.

  Yukio Mishima

  Revenge, Stupid, Fate

  "Confessions of a Mask". Book by Yukio Mishima, 1949.

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• I moved on to the University of California, Berkley, coordinating interpreters for Deaf students at the university. The first year I was at Berkley, we brought in artists, performers, actors, and poets to create a Deaf arts festival. I did a lot of the interpreting for the stage performers. By the second year, I realized that I really liked producing arts festivals that had to do something with signing.

  Jack Jason

  Art, Years, California

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Painting is like romance, since it is all about seeing, feeling, and interpreting.

  Andrew McDermott

  Romance, Feelings, Painting

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• Interpreting at its core is taking in one language and putting out the other.

  Jennifer Abbott

  Language, Core

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it moves toward the imagination: it becomes a mental construct, a model of a possible way of interpreting experience. The further it goes in this direction, the more it tends to speak the language of mathematics, which is really one of the languages of the imagination, along with literature and music. Art, on the other hand, begins with the world we construct, not with the world we see. It starts with the imagination, and then works toward ordinary experience.

  Northrop Frye

  Art, Moving, Science

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• To me, the work I do is a means of interpreting unsettling truths, of bearing witness, and of sounding an alarm. The beauty of formal representation both carries an affirmation of life and subversively brings us face to face with news from our besieged world.

  Richard Misrach

  Photography, Mean, Alarms

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• The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.

  Anton Seidl

  Responsibility, Spirit, Composer

  Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.100, Parrot Press

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• Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult.

  Jodi Kantor

  President, Neighbor, Difficult

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• Mind can come. All this world is minds. But something is not concerned with the calculating, interpreting tendency of the mind.

  Mooji

  Mind, World, Spirituality

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• Humanly speaking, it is possible to understand the Sermon on the Mount in a thousand different ways. But Jesus knows only one possibility: simple surrender and obedience - not interpreting or applying it, but doing and obeying it. That is the only way to hear his words. He does not mean for us to discuss it as an ideal. He really means for us to get on with it.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Mean, Simple

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• In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, Men, Light

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished”, p.161

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• We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we collect. We should recognize that nonhuman organisms need not meet every new definition of human language, tool use, mind, or consciousness in order to have versions of their own that are worthy of serious study. We have set ourselves too much apart, grasping for definitions that will distinguish man from all other life on the planet. We must rejoin the great stream of life from whence we arose and strive to see within it the seeds of all we are and all we may become.

  Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

  Men, Order, Data

  Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Roger Lewin (1996). “Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind”, Wiley

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• The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Greatness, Men, Discipline

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.344, Modern Library

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