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• It's important to stress what I didn't find. I did not prove that homosexuality is genetic, or find a genetic cause for being gay. I didn't show that gay men are born that way, the most common mistake people make in interpreting my work. Nor did I locate a gay center in the brain.

  Simon LeVay

  Mistake, Stress, Gay

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• It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Observing

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• There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.

  Deepak Chopra

  Reality, Views, Perception

  "Power, Freedom, and Grace". Book by Deepak Chopra, 2006.

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• Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, True Friend, Mind Your Own Business

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.67, Anchor

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• There's not enough of those inclusive projects where I feel like I'm interpreting a human being and not just a statistic or a nationality.

  Karla Souza

  Enough, Projects, Feels

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer and a teacher, so much of my time is spent interpreting stories and connecting to other individuals. It is the urge to know more about ourselves and others that creates empathy. Through imagination and our desire for rapport, we transcend our limitations, freshen our eyes, and are able to look at ourselves and the world through a new and alternative lens.

  Azar Nafisi

  Teacher, Believe, Eye

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• I certainly felt I had an idea of World War II, and it's probably the idea that many people share: there was this insane aggressor, and there was really only one way to proceed in resisting him. What I didn't realize is that there were many voices belonging to reasonable, interesting, complicated people who had a different way of interpreting the possible responses to the Hitlerian menace.

  Nicholson Baker

  War, Ideas, Voice

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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• At first the analysing physician could do no more than discover the unconscious material that was concealed from the patient, put it together, and, at the right moment, communicate it to him. Psychoanalysis was then first and foremost an art of interpreting. Since this did not solve the therapeutic problem, a further aim quickly came in view: to oblige the patient to confirm the analyst's construction from his own memory.

  Sigmund Freud

  Art, Memories, Views

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• I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting.

  Lydia Davis

  Struggle, Reader, Allegory

  The Transcript of Our Live Chat with Lydia Davis, www.newyorker.com. December 16, 2009.

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• When you just get fantasy stories that are about fairies or goblins, I just don't care. I'm never going to meet a goblin, it doesn't mean anything to me. So my definition of fantasy is very broad, it's anything to do with memory, or dreams, or ways of interpreting or making sense of the world.

  Dave McKean

  Dream, Memories, Mean

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins; old women in black dancing in a ring can only be witches; but middle-aged women in colors, square dancing...?

  Mason Cooley

  White, Squares, Color

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• Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Decision, Listening, Acting

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• What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.

  Warren Buffett

  Information, Conclusion, Humans

  "How the web distorts reality and impairs our judgement skills" by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2014.

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• Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what to do about the Act's limitation of tax credits to state Exchanges.

  Antonin Scalia

  Should Have, Law, Credit

  Antonin Scalia (2016). “Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents”, p.241, Regnery Publishing

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• Once you have somebody that is telling you, 'We are interpreting God for you,' it seems like you either agree or you don't. You either say, like Martin Luther, 'I'm going to have a direct relationship with the word of God,' or I''m going to go through a conduit of God on Earth,' which would be the Pope.

  Penn Jillette

  Earth, Would Be, Like You

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

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• Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Art, Practice, May

  "We never talk any more: The problem with text messaging" by Jeffrey Kluger, www.cnn.com. August 31, 2012.

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• I happen to be a scientist. My background is in nuclear physics. I was a nuclear engineer. But I don't see any incompatibility at all with my religious faith and God the creator of everything and the incompatibility between when the earth was created as specified in the Bible. I don't see any incompatibility there because those that were interpreting God's overall message didn't know anything about modern-day science.

  Jimmy Carter

  Religious, Messages, Nuclear

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• When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists.

  Thomas J. Sargent

  Estimating, Agendas, Lag

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• What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Dream, Awake, Ifs

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Creativity, Creative

  Dalia Judovitz, Marcel Duchamp (2010). “Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company”, p.56, U of Minnesota Press

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• [T]he scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in the light of the Scripture. Nature says the rock is billions of years old, but the book says different, so even though men wrote the book, and God made the rock and God gave us minds that have found ways to tell how old it is, we still choose to believe the Scripture.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Believe, Book, Writing

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• From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin, she [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts for skillfully interpreting lyrics and endowing them with new depth and jeweled nuance.

  Aberjhani

  Mother, Cousin, Queens

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• In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Real, Criticism

  Evergreen Review Dec. 1964

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• The man who is asleep reacts; he knows nothing of action. And reaction is a binding: it binds you into new prisons, new chains. Response is out of freedom, hence it brings more freedom. Reaction is out of the past; you act according to your memories, built-in by your experiences, conditionings. You react not to the present, not in the present. You don`t reflect the real situation as it is; you go on interpreting it according to your past, your past experiences. The man who is awake is like a mirror: he reflects that which is the case. HE IS AWAKE.

  Rajneesh

  Memories, Freedom, Real

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• In the East we call this state meditation: no belief, no thought, no desire, no prejudice, no conditioning - in fact, no mind at all. A state of no-mind is meditation. When you can look without any mind interfering, distorting, interpreting, then you see the truth. The truth is already all around; just you have to put your mind aside.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Mind, Desire

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