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Interpretations of interpretations interpreted. -- James Joyce
Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
The key to changing our past, present, and future is to create our piece of the PIE (our Perceptions, Interpretations, & Expectations) on purpose. -- Bill Crawford
The attitude of the Church was not as dogmatic as is often assumed. Interpretations of Bible passages had been revised in the light of scientific research before. Everyone regarded the earth as spherical and as freely floating in space though the Bible tells a different story. -- Paul Feyerabend
There are no facts, only interpretations. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations. -- Oliver Stone
Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. -- Naguib Mahfouz
We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations. -- Kenneth Burke
To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations. -- Andre Gide
Mandates are not objective realities but subjective interpretations of elections sold successfully by the winning candidate or party. -- Thomas E. Mann
One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations. -- Tracy Letts
Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one? -- Lawrence G. Lovasik
Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time. -- Manuel Puig
If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal. -- Paul Ricoeur
Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in. -- David Bowie
It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach. -- Paul Ricoeur
Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music. -- Maynard James Keenan
The human race is facing all kinds of problems, and all we are doing is pointing fingers and saying, 'Your interpretation of the problem is different from my interpretations of the problem.' -- Shane Smith
The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features. -- Roman Jakobson
Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment. -- Jon Meacham
It is not history, theology or mythology that interest me. It is the fact that history, theology or mythology could have alternative interpretations or explanations. I try to connect the dots between the past and the present. -- Ashwin Sanghi
It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system. -- Talcott Parsons
I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means. -- Marilyn Manson
I don't analyze what I'm doing. I've read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I've noticed something that I wasn't aware of, but I think, at this point, people read into my work out of habit. Or I'm just very, very smart. -- Cindy Sherman
It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of what happened. We each have totally different ideas of what was said, what was intended, and what really took place. -- Marya Hornbacher
People have interpretations of what you're supposed to be like. If you're unattractive and overweight, you must have a great personality. If you're attractive, then you must not be the nicest person. People are always taken aback that I'm easygoing but not necessarily stupid. -- Mila Kunis
A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work. -- Octavio Paz
The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is. -- Maya Angelou
It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations. -- Warren Ellis
I am an interpreter of interpretations -- James Delingpole
People have different interpretations of "urgent". -- Marco Arment
There is no "true Islam," just different interpretations. -- Shirin Ebadi
Masculinity & femininity are just styles. They are interpretations -- Rad Hourani
A novel is a machine for generating interpretations. -- Umberto Eco
I only play projects with weird interpretations of presidents. -- Benjamin Walker
The truest interpretations are those with the best justification. -- Bernard Ramm
We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things. -- Michel de Montaigne
All interpretations of history are propaganda for one idea or another. -- Selma Dabbagh
There are no styles of karate-do, just varying interpretations of its principles. -- Kenwa Mabuni
Happiness is the inevitable prize of repeated positive interpretations of one's experiences. -- Edmond Mbiaka
I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings. -- John Pfahl
Rules are for the obidience of fools and interpretations of smart men. -- Colin Chapman
The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them. -- Harry Stack Sullivan
People have different interpretations of my work, and I like that flexibility and openness. -- Miru Kim
We have the ability to create choice by altering our interpretations of the world. -- Sheena Iyengar
Dodd-Frank is 2,000 pages long. It covers thousands of rules, regulations, interpretations and things like that. -- Jamie Dimon
Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present. -- Edward Said
It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog. -- George Eliot
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I want to show people how there are variations and different interpretations of good and evil. -- Hideo Kojima
A heart can only be broken or remain shattered through repeated negative interpretations of a negative experience. -- Edmond Mbiaka
We turn pain into suffering by adding on all kinds of beliefs, interpretations and judgments to it. -- Brenda Shoshanna
The information was correct but the interpretations were not. I did my duty up to the last minute. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
I had to learn how to modulate my performances and interpretations of these roles in auditions for the camera. -- Zachary Quinto
The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise. -- Starhawk
We doubt that any facts actually exist. We only have observations and interpretations. Most of the interpretations remain questionable. -- Peter J. Carroll
I like to hear what other people's interpretations are, because people come up with things I'd never thought about. -- Victoria Legrand
A very single fact could emerge into many versions of truth,depends on the number of eyewitnesses and interpretations. -- Toba Beta
In every given circumstance, only your repeated interpretations of it will determine whether it breaks you or makes you. -- Edmond Mbiaka
Religion is, by definition, interpretation; and by definition, all interpretations are valid. However, some interpretations are more reasonable than others. -- Reza Aslan
The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science. -- Claude Bernard
I will not be a slave to my image, nor will I be a slave to anyone else's interpretations of me, -- Janelle Monae
A philosopher who says, 'There are no truths, only interpretations,' risks the retort: 'Is that true, or only an interpretation?' -- Roger Scruton
An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter. -- William Jones
There's been essentially the same analysis over and over again and very little allowance made for different views and interpretations and reflections. -- Edward Said
To the extent that these [New Deal policies] developed, they were tortured interpretations of a document [the Constitution] intended to prevent them. -- Rexford Tugwell
There is a fundamental flaw in interpretations of sharia that say a woman or man should be punished for sex outside of marriage -- Asra Nomani
Negative experiences don't create fears, doubts, anger, grudges, low self-esteem, low self-confidence, jealousy, stress or depression; one's repeated negative interpretations of them do. -- Edmond Mbiaka
India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed. -- Bruno Latour
Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers. -- Che Guevara
A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations. -- Umberto Eco
I think there are fundamentalists all over the world. I think all religions have fundamentalists who have different interpretations of scriptures that are very vague. -- Ishmael Reed
Lived religion is a very different thing from strict textual analysis. Very few people of any faith live their lives as literalist interpretations of scripture. -- Mohsin Hamid
All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is. -- Nathalie Sarraute
If we fail to understand the biblical story of Jesus, we will compromise our prophetic interpretations of the end-times. And that's exactly what we've done. -- Eli Of Kittim
It is not my job to sit down and read peer-reviewed papers because I simply haven't got the time ... I am an interpreter of interpretations. -- James Delingpole
I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about. -- M. Ward
We binge on instant knowledge, but we are learning the hazards, and readers are warier than they used to be of nanosecond-interpretations of Supreme Court decisions. -- Evan Osnos
Love wasn't a piece of music you could play over and over again with different interpretations. It actually needed to be improvised as you went along. -- Tobsha Learner
I am very suspicious of cameras and dramatic interpretations and the whole Hollywood myth-making process. I don't trust it. I've seen it affect people in bad ways. -- Wayne White
We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers. -- Saint Augustine
Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well. -- Frank Herbert
All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you. -- Joss Whedon
New York's architecture alone is enough to inspire a whole album. In fact, that's what happened at first - my early stuff was mostly just interpretations of landscapes. -- Lana Del Rey
I could not accept that organizational interpretations, based on shifting human reasoning, could ever be made equal in authority to the actual statements found in God's unchangeable Word. -- Raymond Franz
This is why I believe that many of our current eschatologies, intoxicated by dubious interpretations of Johnâ??s Apocalypse are not only ignorant and wrong, but dangerous and immoral. -- Brian D. McLaren
The Hebrew Bible defines Judaism. It's certainly true that the Talmudic interpretations become authoritative and normative, but they are interpretations of the Hebrew Bible. So that is always there. -- Frank Moore Cross
There are so many interpretations that this film [The Lobster] could be approached from. But Yorgos [Lanthimos] is so specifically minded, he's so clinical in his direction of the film. -- Colin Farrell
The work of art, though bound by its genetic markings and indelible fingerprints, is boundless in the infinite elaborations of its destiny, and therefore in the range of its interpretations. -- Russell Sherman
There are many interpretations of Islam within the wider Islamic community, but generally we are instructed to leave the world a better place than it was when we came into it. -- Aga Khan IV
You definitely can't forget everything that happened in your past. But you can place some positive interpretations on them, so that they don't control your present and future emotions and feelings. -- Edmond Mbiaka
Actually, it's as if [Superman is] more real than we are. We writers come and go, generations of artists leave their interpretations, and yet something persists, something that is always Superman. -- Grant Morrison
I also feel like it's the right of the people hearing them to have their own interpretations of what these songs mean. Sometimes people will see things that I don't see. -- Zooey Deschanel
Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never seemed to understand my English teacher's interpretations of what we read. -- Melissa Bank
Feelings, by themselves, do not create problems. It is rather the tendency to interpret and analyze them. When out of habit you believe those interpretations, it is there that the suffering begins. -- Mooji
The human race is facing all kinds of problems, and all we are doing is pointing fingers and saying, 'Your interpretation of the problem is different from my interpretations of the problem. -- Shane Smith
It's very, very difficult I think for us to have a transparent debate about secret programs approved by a secret court issuing secret court orders based on secret interpretations of the law. -- Tom Udall
Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world. -- Charles Ives
Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world -- Charles Ives
It's hard to believe the life that 'Someone Like You' has taken on. It's proof that people hunger for great songs - and they are open to different interpretations of songs they love. -- David Nail
Many of us write because we are readers and have grown up in a long tradition, and we want to be able to add to that extraordinary flow of interpretations of the world. -- Rosellen Brown
A lot of people live miserably not because their lives are worse than others, but because their repeated negative interpretations of their experiences bring greater pain to their minds than their physical problems. -- Edmond Mbiaka
At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why we couldn't just read books without forcing contorted interpretations on then -- Alison Bechdel
Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but what they are all fundamentally experiencing is the essential nature of the mind. -- Sogyal Rinpoche
There's always the joy of the performance and fine-tuning new interpretations. Over the years, we've all grown as musicians, so obviously there is a lot of subtlety that wasn't there in the first place. -- Chris Squire
Dracula can sustain many interpretations and exists in many phantasmal forms... and Johnny Alucard is my attempt to explore the multiplicity of Draculas unloosed on the world in the long wake of Stoker's novel. -- Kim Newman
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
By now even the word socialism has so many meanings and interpretations. The Russians call themselves socialists, the Swedes call themselves. And let's not forget that in Germany there was also a national socialism. -- Indira Gandhi
Culture is the most potent method of adaptation that has emerged in the evolutionary history of the living world. - Theodosius Dobzhanksky...the 'facts' of culture history are interpretations based upon assumed culture process. -- Jerry Sabloff
Fast food, fast money, shallow thinking, shallow interpretations. This is now what I deal with everyday. Art was meant to be about freedom, about having the courage to explore what it means to be human. -- Emma Raveling
If the subject is no longer living, the immediate question is do you have enough first-person material to really get that story across. You'd like to avoid it just being other people's memories and interpretations. -- Brian Lindstrom
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

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