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Interpreting at its core is taking in one language and putting out the other. -- Jennifer Abbott
Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult. -- Jodi Kantor
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
Interpreting gives me a chance to do what I do well and have done since I was a kid. At one time, I might have wanted to be an actor or performer, and it somehow fulfills that in a non-threatening way. -- Jack Jason
It all depends on the directors. Working closely with a director is the main job of a film composer. Interpreting what he perceives as a color, an emotion or mood is very abstract. A director tells you something he wants and then you have to run back. -- Danny Elfman
Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult. And yet, examining the first couple's relationship - their negotiations of public and private life, of conflicts and compromises - offers hints about Barack Obama the president, not just Barack Obama the husband. -- Jodi Kantor
I love interpreting other people's music. -- Katey Sagal
It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting. -- Mason Cooley
I've often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently. -- Howard Barker
Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another. -- Jasper Johns
Writing is much more satisfying on a certain level than acting ever was. Because you're not interpreting someone else's original idea, you can come up with your own. -- Michael Beck
In recitals, you are naked before the audience - well, naked with your jacket and tails. The audience sees and hears the real person, not some role you are interpreting. -- Jose Carreras
The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen - thinkers and talkers and drafters of law. -- Tony Kushner
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
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
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
We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say. -- Dan Quayle
You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees? -- Fiona Apple
Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good. -- Gabriel Byrne
Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership. -- James MacGregor Burns
I think that there are changes that have occurred in technology that make is that more people can have the same level of information that I have. My advantage is that I'm very good at interpreting the information. -- Jim Cramer
These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science. -- Michael Polanyi
In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music. -- Dinah Shore
History is a way of interpreting, rather than, say, knowing, the past. It is usually a set of disputes between those who have access to the same sources. It depends on ideology as much as voting in an election does. -- Colm Toibin
Ego, id, and superego are terms familiar to all, but for many years, Freud's psychoanalytic theory has thrived in English departments around the country as a tool for interpreting literary texts but has rarely, if ever, been discussed in science departments. -- Siri Hustvedt
One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran. -- Salman Rushdie
When you have a script, and you're discussing what it can be, and who going to play what role, that's a kind of like a fantasy football game. You can imagine these different dream teams interpreting these characters that only exist in your head. -- Cary Fukunaga
The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of course, that my mannerisms have been widely discussed. -- John Philip Sousa
I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow. -- Adam Osborne
There are two views of interpreting the Bible in America: that every word is literally the truth without qualification, and then the other view is, it's called plenary inspiration, which holds that all religious truth taught in the Bible is true from God, but each word is not necessarily interpreted literally. -- Robert H. Schuller
Working on an adaptation is not as satisfying, because it's not your original work: you're interpreting. With 'L.A. Confidential,' I loved the book. In that case, I felt I was guardian of the work, staying as true to the novel as I could. I've since met the novelist, and he loves the movie and the script. -- Brian Helgeland
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
People have different ways of interpreting history. -- Nate Silver
Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions. -- Pauline Oliveros
Mark had a better chance interpreting body language at Madame Tussauds." -- Kim Aleksander
The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture. -- R. C. Sproul
Painting is like romance, since it is all about seeing, feeling, and interpreting. -- Andrew McDermott
The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit. -- Stella Adler
Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable. -- Ivan Illich
People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others. -- Marisha Pessl
Knowledge is the acquiring of facts, understanding is the interpreting of facts, wisdom the application. -- Edwin Louis Cole
The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words. -- Ronald A. Heifetz
Most Americans want judges who will stick to interpreting the law rather than making it. -- Sam Brownback
What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake? -- Jonathan Safran Foer
I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting. -- Lydia Davis
It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one. -- Antonin Scalia
Science is about explaining the world, and religion is about interpreting it. There shouldn't be any conflict. -- Paul Davies
Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty. -- Margaret Fuller
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These people are obsessive. They go overboard interpreting verbal and behavioral cues that take them way beyond reality. -- Cary Cooper
Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them. -- Voltaire
Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp. -- Dani Shapiro
The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics. -- Julius Thomas Fraser
When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists. -- Thomas J. Sargent
What makes you good looking is how you are expressing yourself and that comes from how you are interpreting life. -- Hrithik Roshan
What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact. -- Warren Buffett
Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago. -- Murray Gell-Mann
Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context. -- Larry Wall
The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces. -- Hannah Arendt
As you think, so you become.....Our busy minds are forever jumping to conclusions, manufacturing and interpreting signs that aren't there. -- Epictetus
Mind can come. All this world is minds. But something is not concerned with the calculating, interpreting tendency of the mind. -- Mooji
Enjoying the dream is more important than interpreting it. Therefore, don't work so hard that it stops being pleasant and exciting. -- Eugene Gendlin
The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government. -- Rush Limbaugh
A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine. -- Euripides
The pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever it is that is causing me pain. -- Marianne Williamson
Hip-hoppers are not interpreting what hip-hop is, and when we do interpret it, we interpret it as something immature, unorganized, and outlaw. -- KRS-One
I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue. -- Nate Lowman
The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age. -- J. Michael Straczynski
Unfortunately, people are re-interpreting the Constitution as a living document, and it's not. It's a solid-based document and it shouldn't be played with. -- Chuck Norris
the body, seeking truth, sends a signal. But decoding it, interpreting its meaning, and knowing how to proceed from there is another matter entirely. -- Harriet Lerner
This is a great opportunity for musicians to display their talent by re-interpreting some classic Kinks songs. Good luck, enjoy, be creative... be outrageous! -- Ray Davies
Everybody is of course free to interpret the work in his own way., I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another. -- Jasper Johns
I sensed that women wanted to be a little different. My fluidity gave them a way of interpreting their bodies in a more personal, individual way. -- Giorgio Armani
Once you finish a film, it doesn't belong to you anymore - it belongs to the audience to interpret it the way they feel like interpreting. -- Clint Eastwood
I've always tried to insert consciousness and spirituality in my records, interpreting the writings of all cultures and religions and how they apply to life in modern times. -- Rakim
Being around Lily Tomlin has been great, how she treats people, how she handles herself, how she goes about interpreting her character or deciding how the comedy should work. -- Baron Vaughn
Nothing higher can be accomplished by the epic poet thus interpreting his own time in order to serve the future.(Foreword by Frederick Ungar in Elective Affinities, 1962, Ungar Publishing) -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
With regards to political enemies Plato had a kill-and-banish principle. ... In interpreting it , modern-day Platonists are clearly disturbed by it, even as they make elaborate attempts to defend Plato. -- Karl Popper
The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors. -- Anton Seidl
When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The business of reading and interpreting the Bible in South Afria is a tricky one! The Bible is everywhere and in the hands of many, including the pain inflictors. ~ Mogomme Alpheus Masoga -- Gerald O. West
I heard that a lot and I just sort of thought, the world was an even more interesting place than the people who were making the decisions were perhaps interpreting it to be. -- Gwendoline Christie
I feel we're on pretty solid ground in interpreting orbit around the sun as the primary driving force behind ice-age glaciation. The relationship is just too clear and consistent to allow reasonable doubt... -- George Kukla
When I do a film, usually I work from my director. That's my boss. The director is interpreting the writer's vision, and we all interpret it, and they create their own vision as well. -- Juliette Lewis
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
In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him. -- Thomas Carlyle
Be careful whom you associate with. It is human to imitate the habits of those with whom we interact. We inadvertently adopt their interests, their opinions, their values, and their habit of interpreting events. -- Epictetus
What is crucial is the provision of opportunities for telling all the diverse stories, for interpreting membership as well as ethnicity, for making inescapable the braids of experience woven into the fabric of America's plurality. -- Maxine Greene

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