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• There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Dope, Data

  "The Illuminatus! Trilogy". Book by Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Shea, Part I : The Eye in the Pyramid (p. 176 of 1988 edition), 1975.

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• The constitution of the United States is to receive a reasonable interpretation of its language, and its powers, keeping in view the objects and purposes, for which those powers were conferred. By a reasonable interpretation, we mean, that in case the words are susceptible of two different senses, the one strict, the other more enlarged, that should be adopted, which is most consonant with the apparent objects and intent of the Constitution.

  Joseph Story

  Mean, Views, Two

  Joseph Story (1851). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.298

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• We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.

  Kenneth Burke

  Character, Events, May

  Kenneth Burke (1984). “Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose”, p.6, Univ of California Press

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• I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.

  Wayne Coyne

  Hard Work, Sound, Records

  "The Flaming Lips Interview From Noise11.com Archives". Interview with Paul Cashmere, www.noise11.com. April 23, 2016.

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• Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay.

  Crispin Glover

  Meaning Something, Lines, Eccentric

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Doubt, Resurrection, Crosses

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• The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's mind, and I guess in reading the things that were given to me, I reacted as you guys saw me, you know.

  Gene Barry

  Attitude, Reading, Guy

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• I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Thinking, Challenges, Insulting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.

  Diane Wakoski

  Power, Feminist, Political

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• I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and in Brooklyn, and we - really, it's more southern. It's Naples and Sicily. It's heavier. It's over-spiced. And like most Americans, I thought spaghetti and meatballs was genius.

  Debi Mazar

  Queens, Husband, Italian

  "Cooking Under The Tuscan Gun". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 16, 2009.

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• There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.

  Bridget Riley

  Reality, Belief, Uncertain

  Bridget Riley (2009). “The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009”

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• I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Believe, Looks, My Own

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• Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Kentucky, Texas, Constitution

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• I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

  Andy Warhol

  War, Sleep, Thinking

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Jesus, Commitment, Order

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• I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.

  Eberhard Weber

  Music, People, Sound

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• I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.

  Oliver Stone

  Trying, Doe, Dramatic

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• There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying.

  John Philip Sousa

  Wind, Balance, Orchestra

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• Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.

  Ian Hacking

  Future, Cutting, Done

  The Emergence of Probability Am Absent Family of Ideas (p. 3)

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• Sometimes you search so hard for words. You look for a way to interpret the language of this heart and the unspoken bond you feel. But in the end you are left with nothing but silence. And deep down you hope it’s understood.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Inspirational, Hope, Islamic

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• So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Historical, Virtue

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Edmond Malone, Charles Symmons, John Thompson (1826). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida”, p.242

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• I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

  David Gilmour

  Spoil, Listeners, Limitation

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• A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

  Stephen King

  Children, Growing Up, Eye

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• The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Airplane, Science, Discovery

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• The gospel must be preached afresh and told in new ways to each generation, since every generation has its own unique questions. The gospel must constantly be forwarded to a new address, because the recipient is repeatedly changing his place of address.

  Helmut Thielicke

  Change, Christian, Unique

  Helmut Thielicke (1970). “How modern should theology be?”

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