Of Context Quotes - Page 3

• All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false.... For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship between language and the world, not about photographs and the world.

  Errol Morris

  World, Language, Caption

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• My position on the POW issue has been widely misquoted and taken out of context. What I originally said and have continued to say is that the POW's are lying if they assert it was North Vietnamese policy to torture American Prisoners.

  Jane Fonda

  Lying, Taken, Issues

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• Every big company has some little guy who is an enthusiast off in the corner working on technology. In Japan, it is integrated into their high-level strategy. They see it as a communication medium, because for them, just the words  -  and this is the problem that they have with Americans  -  just the words they say to you is not the complete message. Their facial expressions, their body language, there is a lot of context. Also, their written language doesn't translate to keyboards well.

  Howard Rheingold

  Communication, Technology, Japan

  Source: medium.com

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• I love taking things out of context and playing with them and chopping up rules.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Chopping

  "I didn't know I was writing a novel". Interview with Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. January 10, 2005.

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• There is no single formula for good sentence. An invisible integument that gives the sentence wholeness and musicality, sometimes. But other times, the formula is almost purely one of context. And yet other times, of sheer precision of meaning. This is a good sentence: "Just as he was settling into the warm mud of alcoholic gloom, Shrike caught his arm." "Warm mud of alcoholic gloom" is exact and right and accurate.

  Rachel Kushner

  Giving, Sometimes, Invisible

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Pulling a gun's trigger can be an appalling act. But if it is suicidal drawing fire to save someone, it has an utterly different meaning. Placing your hand on someone's arm can be an act of deep compassion or the first step of betrayal. The punch line? It's all about context, and the biology of context is vastly more complicated than the biology of the behavior itself.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Betrayal, Suicidal, Gun

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I feel less and less like that every year, and I guess maybe even more so with every new record that I put out. I just think, as the years go by, it's harder and harder to really find a reason to be annoyed that you made something that people want to continuously talk about. Certainly there are contexts in which the record can be discussed which will get me on the defensive and make me want to put some kind of calibration or some kind of context on what the record means in relation to my career as a whole.

  DJ Shadow

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• People took the word "clean" out of context. My mother had an expression: "clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack." I inherited her originality.

  Joe Biden

  Mother, Expression, People

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2015.

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• I wrote a couple of songs that had gypsy references in them. The only reason it happened was because that's what was coming through and I liked the idea at that period of time. But that doesn't mean that it's a myth or that I'm a gypsy. It's gotten totally out of context.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Couple, Mean

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• I have done interviews in the past, and they cut everything out except for the outrageous line, and then they take it out of context.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Cutting, Past, Done

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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• But ripped out of context, ["Who am I to judge?" phrase] has become an all-purpose filter through which everything else - including the pope's multiple reaffirmations of Humanae Vitae, Paul VI's encyclical on the morally appropriate means of family planning - gets airbrushed out of the picture.

  George Weigel

  Mean, Judging, Filters

  Source: eppc.org

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• What I find difficult about photo shoots is the line between playing a character - you're being asked by the photographer to take on a role like you would in a movie - and being a fancier version of yourself. It's about finding that line between being spontaneous and open to direction, but also trying to explain to photographers that the "me" is often taken out of context because it has all of this other stuff attached to it.

  Emma Watson

  Taken, Character, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The media loves to take things like that [Rocky Marciano couldn't hold my jockstrap] out of context. There was no harm meant when I said that, but plenty of harm came from it.

  Larry Holmes

  Media, Harm, Said

  Source: www.paneech.com

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• You never know when you're going to die in the show - it's kind of funny when you say that out of context, "I don't know when I'm going to die" - but you don't have time to have an ego or an attitude because you just get the chop.

  Alanna Masterson

  Attitude, Ego, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We only live once, and how would you want to be remembered? I have kids. I have, due to my job, a probably higher responsibility to do good things in my life. But also, since I was a kid, I love doing things out of context, helping friends, being different, being a special kind of man is important for me.

  Gilles Marini

  Jobs, Kids, Responsibility

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• Mitt Romney is saying his comments about liking to fire people were taken out of context. Yeah, what he actually said was he likes to set poor people on fire.

  Conan O'Brien

  Taken, Fire, People

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• If one takes a public stand against, say, most any sin you can think of, one is considered "courageous" and a "defender of the faith." Folks will quickly applaud you and tell you how much they admire you for "taking a stand" on biblical truth. Except if you quote Matt. 5:44 and invite people to apply it in any sort of meaningful, literal way. The moment one begins to talk about loving your enemies they all of a sudden become "liberals," "extremists," or are accused of completely taking an otherwise straight forward passage "out of context.

  Benjamin L. Corey

  Meaningful, Peace, Biblical

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• Most of my critics don't even listen to me; they are clueless. They just go to Web sites that report what I say out of context.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Clueless, Site, Critics

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• The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke miracles in order to compress the events of the earth's history into the biblical span of a few thousand years; their unwillingness to abandon claims clearly disproved, including the assertion that all fossils are products of Noah's flood; and their reliance upon distortion, misquote, half-quote, and citation out of context to characterize the ideas of their opponents.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Biblical, Order, Years

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• When you hit send on a text or tweet, you lose ownership of it - but you don't lose responsibility. Every text you have sent may have been saved and could be out there waiting to be used in ways you didn't imagine. Even the most simple of posts can be used out of context, often unintentionally, and change your future.

  Mark Cuban

  Responsibility, Simple, Waiting

  "5 Questions With Mark Cuban About Online Privacy". Interview with John P. David, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2014.

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• To toy with something is to manipulate it, to try it out within sets of contexts none of which is determinate.

  Susan Stewart

  Trying, Manipulation, Toys

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• Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.

  Peter M. Brant

  Art, Book, Mean

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• I think that, if we do anything in a positive sense for the world, is provide one little bit of context, that's very specifically focused, and hopefully people can add to their entire puzzle that gives them a larger picture of what it is that they see.

  Jon Stewart

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

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• I can't define myself as a political writer - I don't think I've earned it, and I don't function as a political writer in the way that many of the writers I admire do. It's not simply a question of context, of where I'm writing from - there is much in American society that urgently needs to be written about. I think your work is always engaged with politics in the looser sense of the word - and that looseness is itself a kind of privilege - because politics and culture are evidently intertwined.

  Katie Kitamura

  Writing, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I mean that's really depressing man. Of course, the kids are freaking out. They watch cartoons and sit in front of the television and their parents are just probably yuppies who focus their entire lives around the child. The child has no sense of context, no sense of what world they are inhabiting-just like this Disnified bag of Cheerios reality. Don't give them a @#$%& pill! God! Take them out on a canoe already! You know what I mean?

  Emily Haines

  Depressing, Children, Mean

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

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