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Love requires Context. -- Joe Hill
Context shapes who you are. -- Cornel West
Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors. -- Kenneth Noland
Context overrides. In different contexts, cells do different things. -- Mina Bissell
Context is to data what water is to a dolphin -- Dan Simmons
Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life. -- Anthony Bourdain
Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings. -- David Adjaye
Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo. "Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context. -- Norton Juster
An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop. -- Iain Banks
Sometimes your greatest strength can emerge as a weakness if the context changes. -- Harsha Bhogle
You've got to develop relationships. You can't do things just in a formal context. -- Kenneth Chenault
No word is absolutely wrong or dirty or insulting. It all depends upon context and intention. -- Janet Jackson
Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe. -- Stanislav Grof
I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance. -- Max Weber
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Russia is opposed to the proliferation of mass destruction weapons, including nuclear weapons, and in this context we call upon our Iranian friends to abandon the uranium enrichment programme. -- Vladimir Putin
The world isn't fast-paced, it's frenetic. People have to be managers of themselves. Time has been managing itself for 15 billion years; we have to manage ourselves in the context of time. -- Tony Buzan
People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need context, nuance and the warmth and tone that can only come from a human voice. -- Danielle Steel
I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
I deal with cultural issues whether they be in the Middle East, Far East, the Orient or the West. You broach questions in the context of their culture and then present Christian answers. -- Ravi Zacharias
My brothers and sisters, we are all winners. In this context there is no victor and no vanquished. We have demonstrated, even in our diversity, the progress of Nigeria remains paramount for all. -- Goodluck Jonathan
The dark side of social media is that, within seconds, anything can be blown out of proportion and taken out of context. And it's very difficult not to get swept up in it all. -- Nicola Formichetti
Friends are sometimes a big help when they share your feelings. In the context of decisions, the friends who will serve you best are those who understand your feelings but are not overly impressed by them. -- Daniel Kahneman
People's mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the third and fourth place by worries and concerns and other things like that. -- Daniel Kahneman
I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context. -- Alexander Wang
If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference. -- Marina Abramovic
You know, I think I'm more of a micro-person, so to me, the context and the framework of trying to do what you love and feel passionate about, in supporting your family in that way, is the most important thing to me. -- Joan Cusack
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: 'Oh my God, what a blessing.' Then you realise it's important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe. -- Paulo Coelho
There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds up exponentially. With that, I think you start to put a lot of things into context; you start to see how huge the world is, and really, the universe. -- Michael Keaton
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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
I started out as a lawyer and came in laterally to Goldman Sachs. So I learned myself that life is unpredictable. That you really should, in terms of your career, try to be excellent at what you're doing. I think if you focus on your job, and you focus on being broad in the context of your job, the next jobs follow from that. -- Lloyd Blankfein
I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is. -- Aasif Mandvi
Text without context is pretext. -- Walter Martin
So much of design is context. -- Steve Madden
Priority is a function of context. -- Stephen Covey
Language usage always has a political context. -- Jackson Katz
If content is King, context is God. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
Love is a context, not a behavior. -- Marilyn Ferguson
I feel like a quote out of context, -- Ben Folds
In the context of eternity, time doesn't matter. -- Wayne Dyer
Meaning is context bound, but context is boundless -- Jonathan Culler
Politicians take something out of context to create problems. -- Anurag Kashyap
Taken out of context I must seem so strange. -- Ani DiFranco
I don't approach films purely in context of genre. -- Roger Deakins
Disinformation is most effective in a very narrow context. -- Frank Snepp
EMBRACING THE EXISTING Japanese perspective on urban history and context -- Kengo Kuma
Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization. -- Jack Schwartz
I need to be able to explain myself in context. -- Adam Lambert
Without context words and actions have no meaning at all -- Gregory Bateson
Freedom should always be discussed within the context of responsibility -- Garry Trudeau
Who wins a... competition [between two traits] is massively context sensitive. -- Jerry Fodor
Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context. -- John Wyndham
There are very few critics who have historical context or authority. -- Twyla Tharp
Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context. -- Cat Stevens
All is context. Choose yours carefully, where you have a choice. -- Mike Young
The purpose of all relationships is to create a sacred context -- Neale Donald Walsch
When we vote we participate in the construction of a context... -- Aberjhani
A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text. -- D. A. Carson
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context. -- Eliel Saarinen
You rarely hear anyone use the word pancreas in a not-horrible context. -- Christian Finnegan
Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times. -- George Bernard Shaw
To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft. -- John Szarkowski
My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats. -- Sharon Salzberg
After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism. -- Elliott Abrams
Without context, things are not scary. Without context, like humor, horror doesn't work. -- Guillermo del Toro
Underground issues from one relationship or context invariably fuel our fires in another. -- Harriet Lerner
Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context. -- David Byrne
Providentially, learned habits can be unlearned, especially in the context of moral groups. -- Michael Shermer
We can say the stars are moving because we have a relative context. -- Frederick Lenz
I've always been so surprised by how people interpret my photos in context. -- JR
God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves. -- Eugene H. Peterson
Everything's funny - in the right context and done by the right person. -- Chris Rock
In my books, my idea is always to explore social context and social forces. -- Alix Kates Shulman
A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context. -- P. Chidambaram
Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters. -- Will Arnett
Motion is the context of living. We find meaning my and in our doing. -- Robert Kegan
For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything. -- Kenneth Noland
I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text. -- Andrea Hirata
Its not the content nor context,rather, its the character that masses heed to. -- Arap yegon chitabkoret
Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
We live in a context, but we're also individuals. We need to explore both. -- Nitin Sawhney
Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship. -- Harrison Ford
I think talent, especially in acting, is being wholly yourself within the context of yourself. -- Mariel Hemingway
In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities. -- Yishan Wong
Recovery can only take place within the context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation. -- Judith Lewis Herman
I believe in the unlimited power of women in the context of science and engineering. -- Elizabeth Holmes
Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation. -- Judith Lewis Herman
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely. -- William James
Russia exists in the context of open global economy and is a part of it -- Kenneth Rogoff
I love taking things out of context and playing with them and chopping up rules. -- Helen Oyeyemi
A love relationship has always been shaped by the context and times we live in. -- Gael Garcia Bernal
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. -- Edwin Schlossberg
More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context. -- Rosanne Cash
I love music, but more for the context within the music than a certain sound. -- Wesley Eisold
I always loved designing, but the context needs to be right, and have a positive perspective. -- Hedi Slimane
Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice. -- Randall Terry
I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context. -- Jo Brand
Nuclear deterrence doesn't work outside of the Russian - U.S. context; Saddam Hussein showed that. -- Charles Horner
Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context. -- Isabel Allende
The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing. -- Meg Wolitzer
We are talking about Christianizing America. We are talking about the Gospel in a political context. -- Paul Weyrich
Families are where children live. Almost everything they experience is in the context of family life. -- Mike Berenstain
So where in the old economy, content was king, in the new economy, context is king. -- Robert Kiyosaki
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides -- William James
The Bible is not interested in precisionism unless the context indicates that precision is particularly important. -- D. A. Carson
Even Satan can quote scripture out of context why are we surprised when men do it. -- Gary Rohrmayer
The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it. -- Stephen Shore
Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen. -- Wayne Thiebaud
I started hearing Snapchat in the same context as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. That got me curious. -- Mitch Lasky
The Verse-Refrain form starts with a context before the topic that the Refrain is talking about happens. -- Ryan Cayabyab
Corporate & personal branding both require storytelling to be captivating. Stories provide context, meaning & the opportunity for relationship. -- Ryan Lilly
I was interested in writing something that has meaning in the larger context of global conflicts anywhere. -- Ru Freeman
The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me -- Chris Van Allsburg
Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context. -- Idries Shah
I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun

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