Different Interpretations Quotes

• Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Different, Gains, Easier

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• If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Way, Equal, Ifs

  Paul Ricoeur (1976). “Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning”, p.79, TCU Press

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• To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.

  Andre Gide

  Wise, Past, Degrees

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• It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Agreement, Umpires, Arguing

  Paul Ricoeur (2016). “Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences”, p.175, Cambridge University Press

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• Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.

  Manuel Puig

  Book, Literature, Waste

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• I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.

  Oliver Stone

  Movie, Believe, Subjects

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• The human race is facing all kinds of problems, and all we are doing is pointing fingers and saying, 'Your interpretation of the problem is different from my interpretations of the problem.

  Shane Smith

  Race, Different, Kind

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• The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West. The two worlds, Muslim and non-Muslim, Eastern and Western, must, as a matter of urgency, make a real effort to get to know one another, for I fear that what we have is not a clash of civilisations, but a clash of ignorance on both sides.

  Aga Khan IV

  Real, Ignorance, Two

  Speech at the "Musée-Musées" Round Table Louvre Museum, www.akdn.org. October 17, 2007.

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• I want to show people how there are variations and different interpretations of good and evil.

  Hideo Kojima

  People, Evil, Different

  IGN Interview, www.ign.com. December 12, 2000.

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• It's hard to believe the life that 'Someone Like You' has taken on. It's proof that people hunger for great songs - and they are open to different interpretations of songs they love.

  David Nail

  Song, Believe, Taken

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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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• The reason I often say, for me, photography is analogous to poetry, for my kind of work more so than journalism, is because it's so open to interpretation. And I'm very happy having different interpretations of it.

  Alec Soth

  Photography, Different, Journalism

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People have different interpretations of "urgent".

  Marco Arment

  Business, People, Different

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• Love wasn't a piece of music you could play over and over again with different interpretations. It actually needed to be improvised as you went along.

  Tobsha Learner

  Play, Different, Pieces

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• The (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) stories were great, for one. The thing that makes him a remarkable character is how he can withstand all of these different interpretations and different styles and, that's what makes a classic character a classic character; they keep coming back and you see them in a new way every time.

  Laura Linney

  Character, Style, Way

  "Mr. Holmes: Laura Linney Talks Sherlock, and Compares Working on TMNT 2 With Congo". Interview with Brian Formo, collider.com. July 14, 2015.

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• Science fiction that's just about people wandering around in space ships shooting each other with ray guns is very dull. I like it when it enables you to do fairly radical reinterpretations of human experience, just to show all the different interpretations that can be put on apparently fairly simple and commonplace events. That I find fun.

  Douglas Adams

  Fun, Gun, Simple

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• Even though the outside world has not changed, your brain dynamically presents different interpretations.

  David Eagleman

  Brain, World, Different

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• There are lots of different interpretations of the word 'prodigy.' My own is of someone who is talented and tries to help other children. So in that respect I could be called one, although I don't think I'll go off the rails.

  Adora Svitak

  Children, Helping Others, Thinking

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• ... the ecological problem of our times demands a radical reevaluation of how we see the entire world; it demands a different interpretation of matter and the world, a new attitude of humankind toward nature, and a new understanding of how we acquire and make use of our material goods.

  Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople

  Attitude, Understanding, World

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• There are stories of Maui everywhere in the South Pacific. They're different. Different areas have different interpretations. But and so we [with John Musker] fashioned, that was kind of the inspiration and we came up with a very simple basic storyline, focusing on Maui.

  Ron Clements

  Inspiration, Simple, Different

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• You can compare Holmes and Watson to great Shakespearean characters, in a way. They've been played by hundreds of actors over the years, and each one is a different interpretation - the source material can take that form of interpretation.

  Jude Law

  Character, Years, Different

  "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - Jude Law interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Being a Christian does not mean that there is one way of living a Christian life, people do it differently in different cultures because they have different interpretations, that's how it should be. The disciples had arguments with Jesus! It is about listening to one another, and respecting one another with those differences.

  Alan Green

  Christian, Jesus, Mean

  "An Ecumenical Chatter: When Rev Robert Hood Met Fr Alan Green". Interview with Luke Turner, thequietus.com. June 6, 2016.

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• There are different interpretations of the problem of universals. I understand it as the problem of giving the truthmakers of propositions to the effect that a certain particular is such and such, e.g. propositions like 'this rose is red'. Others have interpreted it as a problem about the ontological commitments of such propositions or a problem about what those propositions mean.

  Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

  Mean, Commitment, Giving

  "Truthmaking". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com.

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• The good thing is in my case I'm all about love and communications, so there was no hard feelings, it was like ok we reached the end of this season and I wish you well and it's time to move on. As a pop song it's definitely open to many different interpretations, I received a call from a cousin saying that it helped her heal after an abusive relationship and another friend said it represented her of a summer fling. We tried to write carefully so that it can be relatable to cover a wide audience.

  Alyson Stoner

  Summer, Song, Cousin

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• I think there are fundamentalists all over the world. I think all religions have fundamentalists who have different interpretations of scriptures that are very vague.

  Ishmael Reed

  Thinking, Having Fun, Different

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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