Interpretation Quotes - Page 30

• The ambiguity of poetic language answers to the ambiguity of human life as a whole, and therein lies its unique value. All interpretations of poetic language only interpret what the poetry has already interpreted.

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Lying, Unique, Answers

  Hans-Georg Gadamer, Robert Bernasconi (1986). “The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays”, p.71, Cambridge University Press

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• My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.

  Thomas Steinbeck

  Father, Social, Function

  "John Steinbeck, Michael Moore, and the Burgeoning Role of Planetary Patriotism" by Thomas Steinbeck, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2010.

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• I'd say 80% of my activity is engaged in the interpretation of social mood.

  Hugh Hendry

  Mood, Social, Activity

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• Interpretations of Muslim assimilation have gravitated between two arguments: that Muslims will remain as permanent outsiders or that Muslims will blend in with little difficulty at all. Mucahit Bilici demonstrates how wanting these arguments are. Finding Mecca in America takes us into the uncharted territory of what it is actually like to be Muslim immigrants in the United States. I am especially impressed by the study's theoretical depth and empirical insights.

  Robert Wuthnow

  Two, America, Depth

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• When people die and especially when they die tragically, others can't help but get carried away. They come up with their implausible interpretation and usually resort to cheap psychology. A sense of fatalism is the only form of relief left.

  Francesca Marciano

  People, Psychology, Relief

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• The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a totally abstract thing.

  Helene Grimaud

  Pieces, Way, Abstract

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.

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• If the world is a progressively realized community of interpretation, then either quadruplictity will drink procrastination or, provided that the nothing negates, boredom will ensue seldom more often than frequently.

  Woody Allen

  Procrastination, Boredom, Community

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• Christ has given us the most glorious interpretation of life's meaning that man has ever had. The fatherhood of God, the fellowship of the Spirit, the sovereignty of righteousness, the law of love, the glory of service, the coming of the Kingdom, the eternal hope- there was never an interpretation of life to compare with that.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Men, Law, Fatherhood

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• The Blue Degrees are but the outer court...of the temple. Part of the symbols are displayed there to the initiate, but he is intentionally misled by false interpretation. It is not intended that he shall understand them, but it is intended that he shall imagine that he understands them...The true explanation is reserved for the Adepts, the Princes of Masonry (those of the 32nd and 33rd degrees)

  Albert Pike

  Blue, Degrees, Temples

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• Controlling the interpretation of the Constitution is vital to the leftist agenda of expanding the federal government's power. That means keeping the federal judiciary as liberal as possible and treating the U.S. Supreme Court's liberal legacy as sacrosanct.

  Joseph Sobran

  Mean, Government, Legacy

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• But if you constantly insist only on your own interpretation, it isn't long before it seems patronizing.

  Martin Schulz

  Long, Patronizing, Seems

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one.

  Rumi

  Hopeful, True Ones, Active

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• There is no "true Islam," just different interpretations.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Islam, Different, Different Interpretations

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. September 1, 2004.

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• The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're not darkly or as deeply personal as someone like Marc Maron or a lot of comedians, but they are essentially my life and my interpretation of it.

  Eugene Mirman

  Comedian, Stories, Truth Is

  "The Erudite Absurdist: Eugene Mirman". Interview with Austin Nelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2011.

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• We are entering into an age in which visual language is defined by a dialogue between photographers and audiences. This means not just the democratic posting of images but the democratic interpretation of images.

  Gilles Peress

  Mean, Age, Entering

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• The more specific the interpretation suggested by a picture, the less happy I am with it.

  Philip-Lorca diCorcia

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• As a rule I do not like to explain my photographs, I want my pictures to be read and explored. I believe a good picture is open to many individual (subjective) associations. I am usually pleased when a viewer finds interpretations that I myself had not been aware of.

  John Gutmann

  Believe, Want, Association

  Sally Stein, John Gutmann, Amy Rule (2009). “John Gutmann: the photographer at work”, Yale Univ Pr

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• If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)

  Charles Negre

  Photography, Art, Poetic

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• Photography has always been capable of manipulation. Even more subtle and more invidious is the fact that any time you put a frame to the world, it's an interpretation. I could get my camera and point it at two people and not point it at the homeless third person to the right of the frame, or not include the murder that's going on to the left of the frame. You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. There's an infinite number of ways you can do this: photographs have always been authored.

  Joel Sternfeld

  Photography, Two, Numbers

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• A photograph permits a first viewing, and then an individual reflection. It solicits participation, and encourages individuality in interpretation. Television is an autarchy, a dictatorship.

  Oliviero Toscani

  Reflection, Individuality, Television

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• The only problem was I needed to use my own group, and things didn't happen until I did. It wasn't a real country sound, what I did. I've listened to it, and I think it was more a west coast rock thing, you know? But it fit. It was country, but it was my own interpretation of country.

  Waylon Jennings

  Country, Real, Thinking

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• The Bible itself is a book that constantly must be wrestled with and re-interpreted. ... Bible interpretation is colored by historical context, the reader's bias and current realities. The more you study the Bible, the more questions it raises. It is not possible to simply do what the Bible says.

  Rob Bell

  Book, Reality, Historical

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• Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter.

  Suzy Kassem

  Firsts, Never Trust, Translations

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• People should support equality because of their religion not despite it. These are the values that openness, inclusion, diversity promote. And they're directly opposed to the kind of enforced closet of certain interpretations of religion.

  Jay Michaelson

  People, Diversity, Support

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• One of the more distant concerns is with the visual interpretation of the music. I find it fascinating but I don't always particularly get involved with it.

  Squarepusher

  Get Involved, Concern, Visuals

  Source: thequietus.com

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