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• For me, it is about using everything that is there and using the gaps in the record, figuring out why the gaps might be there. And then when you move on to the level of what historians said, laying the interpretations side by side. You also have to look back at the documents and make your own judgments. What the record says and what people say about it. A novelist can fill the gaps in a way that a biographer cannot.

  Hilary Mantel

  Moving, People, Novelists

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• There are no styles of karate-do, just varying interpretations of its principles.

  Kenwa Mabuni

  Style, Principles, Karate

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• Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.

  Itay Talgam

  Art, Two, Special

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• That kind of unease, that melancholy, is of course partly my interpretation, but partly, I think, it's something that's really there [in America] as well. It resonates with this moment and the sort of alienation from the power structure a lot of people feel, as well as a certain amount of desperation, in the hope of disrupting the power structure so they can live better lives. I think in those ways, it's intimately connected to today.

  Peter van Agtmael

  Thinking, America, People

  "Donald Trump May Be on Your Television, But Here’s What America Really Looks Like". Interview with Mark Murrmann, www.motherjones.com. February 25, 2017.

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• The values that you bring to Sharia are whatever values you yourself have, if you are a bigot, misogynist and a violent person, your interpretation of Sharia will be bigoted, violent and misogynistic, if you are a democrat and a pluralist and someone who is peace loving, that's how you'll see the Sharia.

  Mark Durie

  Violent, Democrat, Sharia

  "Sharia Deceptions" by Robert Spencer, www.frontpagemag.com. November 3, 2010.

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• Sharia law is a Malignant law, it's totally based on the interpretation of the Koran and the Hajid, and the way Islam and the profit lived.

  Mark Durie

  Law, Islam, Way

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Without doubt, the foremost band for decades has been the One O'Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas. Through its many incarnations and under various leaders, they have demonstrated the highest qualities of musicianship imaginable, plus a willingness to balance their big band tradition with creative exploration. Astounding ensemble work, insightful interpretations of the arrangements, imaginative writing, and above all, a loving attention to musicality . . . these people play beautifully.

  Gary Burton

  Writing, Play, Texas

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• The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Enemy, Doctrine, Has Beens

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1972). “Selected Essays on Atheism”, Ayer Company Pub

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• It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

  Talcott Parsons

  Body, Facts, Structure

  Talcott Parsons (1968). “The structure of social action: a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers”

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• There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Moral

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.275, Modern Library

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• Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher.

  Eleanora Duse

  Teacher, Growth, Sorrow

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• Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Ideas, Facts, Theory

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.465, VM eBooks

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• All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble music, not soloism--we share. No altruism this, for we receive tenfold what we give.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Music, Lonely, Art

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1939). “Friends and fiddlers”

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• I do think that the imagination you create yourself when you're reading, to create the tone and the accent of the world, is an individual accomplishment that someone is imposing upon you by listening to them read it. Because you're listening to their interpretation, and their emphasis would probably be different from the one that your brain makes while you're reading it.

  John Larroquette

  Reading, Thinking, Accomplishment

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Of course there's conscious manipulation! Everything about a movie is manipulation ... If you like it, it's an interpretation. If you don't like it, it's a lie - but everything about these movies is a distortion."

  Frederick Wiseman

  Lying, Manipulation, You Like It

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• In documentary we deal with the actual, and in one sense with the real. But the really real, if I may use that phrase, is something deeper than that. The only reality which counts in the end is the interpretation which is profound

  John Grierson

  Real, Profound, Phrases

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• Often the Jesus-focused churches are leaning towards a 'social gospel' interpretation of the kingdom, and the 'Paul' churches are talking about being saved from sin and going to heaven. But when we understand both Jesus and Paul in their historical contexts within the first-century Jewish world, the issues become both more complex and ultimately (I believe) more clear.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Believe, Talking

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• As such the meaning of hegemony is subject to varying interpretations depending on how the historical role of the United States is interpreted.

  Richard A. Falk

  Historical, United States, Hegemony

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Salafi is a very broad concept in Islam. What we have now is, like, for example, the Nour Party in Egypt or the Salafi in Tunisia are people who, in fact, we call very often Wahhabi, following the Saudi school of thought and law. And they are literalists in the way where it's black and white, there's a very narrow interpretation of the scriptural sources. For decades, we knew that they were there, but they were not involved in politics. What is completely new for all of us over the last years is that they are now within the political arena and playing the democratic game.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Party, School, Black And White

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• Your actions are not in a vacuum. They impact other people. It may be in a way that's less obvious than in mainstream movies, but it comes to an understanding of who those people are. It also leaves it open to interpretation. And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

  Wendell Pierce

  Art, Journey, Impact

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The whole idea of jazz came about was the interpretation of the human dialogue, trading fours. When someone's soloing and someone picks up the solo and plays it back at 'em, it was the imitation of the human dialogue. It was how people spoke, through music.

  Wendell Pierce

  Play, Ideas, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and this reproduction bores me. What interests me is the interpretation of life by an artist. The personality of the film maker interests me more than the copy of an object.

  Jean Renoir

  Photography, Artist, Perfect

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• I came to Freud for facts. I read 'The Interpretation of Dreams' and I thought- 'Oh, here is a man who is not just theorizing away, here is a man who has got facts.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Men, Facts

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• The combination of the growth of these digital technologies, the ability of the government to conjure up these secret interpretations, plus a very unusual and novel court make for this ever-expanding surveillance state. We so treasure our freedoms; we will regret it if our generation doesn't use this unique time to reform the surveillance laws and make it clear that security and liberty are not mutually exclusive. We can do both.

  Ron Wyden

  Regret, Unique, Technology

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Have you not noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than your harsh ones?

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Kindness, Past, Harsh

  "The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time".

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