Quotes with interpret

  • Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
  • You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.
  • The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

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  • Allen Ginsberg Fortunately art is a community effort, a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • Bennie Thompson Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.
    Bennie Thompson
    American politician (1948 - )
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  • André Malraux Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Umberto Eco I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
    De slinger van Foucault (2007) 104
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • J.M. Coetzee I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
    (2003)
    J.M. Coetzee
    South African-born Australian novelist (1940 - )
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  • Bijou Phillips I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.
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  • Susan Sontag In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Susan Sontag Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world - in order to set up a shadow world of ''meanings.''
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Novalis Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
    Novalis
    German poet and writer (ps. van Georg van Hardenberg) (1772 - 1801)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Barry Zito Regardless of what you want to call it, guys need some type of spirituality they can grab onto. If it's Christianity, which is a very structured approach, or if it's something that's a little more open-ended... like, Zen's something you can make yourself a part of. You can interpret it for yourself, like Taoism and stuff like that.
    Barry Zito
    American baseball pitcher and musician (1978 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do the Constitution: as a Chinese menu designed to allow picking and choosing. That's because when many Democrats take the Bible as a whole, they realize how much they despise it.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Herbert Hoover The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Woodrow Wilson The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Robert Runcie Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and good interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Marlon Brando To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.
    Marlon Brando
    American actor, film director, and activist (1924 - 2004)
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  • Anthony Robbins We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Alfred Adler We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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