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It is evident that the fanatical interpretation of the Koran is incompatible with our values of freedom and with Christian values.
Playing Lord Ram is a once in a lifetime opportunity and, thankfully, people were convinced with my interpretation of the divine character all those years ago.
While there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by trying to model it on the ways in which we get things right in physics.
Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.
We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.
No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any dream.
Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are
poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.
Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to conditions of life.
I can't stand interpretation. I think it's one of the great scourges of the theater. I just think, 'Don't get in the way of the play.'
Fred Hoyle and I differ on lots of questions, but on this we agree: a common sense and satisfying interpretation of our world suggests the designing hand of a superintelligence.
There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the pain we encounter.
The value of having numbers - data - is that they aren't subject to someone else's interpretation. They are just the numbers. You can decide what they mean for you.
A lot of writers want everything put on screen, but it doesn't work like that. The screenwriter brings her own imaginative interpretation, just as the director and actors do.
It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority.
What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our INTERPRETATION of experiences.
I think that the essential instruction of the Bible is very much topical. The sole problem is that with every change of historical setting, you need to readjust the interpretation of the message.
Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.
Bohm's 'ontological interpretation' was so called because of the bad rap the word 'ontology' has had in our correlationist age. As a bit of a put-down.
The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.
What many people, I think, don't really understand is how much their rights really turn on the interpretation of the Supreme Court.
Look, I happen to agree with what George says about the interpretation of the New Testament, but I want to remind both of you to never play God.
During my time as a judge, as a justice, and as attorney general, I've had one overarching goal, and that is a strict interpretation and application of the laws and the Constitution. I would be Madisonian.
It’s so hard to communicate because there are so many moving parts. There’s presentation and there’s interpretation and they’re so dependent on each other it makes things very difficult.
I became famous, I think, really because of the interpretation of other people's songs, way back when, and that's what I enjoy the most. And I'm a lazy bugger.
I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.
I love the simplicity of Kevin Spacey's work. He really does a subtle interpretation of every character, and that's kind of my style of acting when it comes to dramatic roles.
To choose to live with a dog is to agree to participate in a long process of interpretation, a mutual agreement though the human being holds most of the cards.
If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be 'Shut up and calculate!'
Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.
Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.
It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts"
but by our interpretation of the facts.
Sometimes I do it more literally, sometimes I do a little softer [interpretation], but I'm just inspired by the past.
One place exists as their interpretation of it. For the people living and thriving inside of it, it's another place.
The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
A philosopher who says, 'There are no truths, only interpretations,' risks the retort: 'Is that true, or only an interpretation?'
There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.
I argue against literal interpretation of religious doctrines. Religions make progress when they emancipate themselves from literalism, and take their doctrinal statements to be metaphors or allegories.
Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.
A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
The Biblical text does not have punctuation marks like periods and question marks. Where we end sentences is a matter of interpretation.
I can't bring you absolute truth in the detailed factual sense. All I can do is bring you an interpretation as I understand it. That's all you can ever get from an actor.
There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.
I grew up in the '90s and remember the lyrics back then were so abstract and open to interpretation. That always drove me crazy.
A photograph permits a first viewing, and then an individual reflection. It solicits participation, and encourages individuality in interpretation. Television is an autarchy, a dictatorship.
It is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct — if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.
The motif of Beat Generation is basically misunderstood, a misinterpreted area. There's this superimposition of the idea of a social rebellion, which was the communist interpretation through Lawrence Lipton.
Because most journalists are secular, they can be gullible in looking to the religious right as arbiters of biblical interpretation, especially as it relates to hot-button cultural and political issues.
We're invited to believe that the worst effects of Stalinism arose from its 'dogmatic' intransigence; but it is precisely because so much was left open to interpretation that its Terror was so pervasive.
Hugh Lynn Cayce, Edgar Cayce's son, is quoted as saying, The best interpretation of a dream is one you apply.
I do think my lyrics have gotten... not necessarily more poetic, but more open to interpretation; they're less literal.
Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government.
Islam will be what Muslims make of it. And it is the sum total of the interpretation that Muslims give to it.
the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.
For some people, pronouns are a very important part of how they identify. I completely understand that. For me, I have more of a looser interpretation.
Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.
Normally, I don't like explaining songs. I don't want to kill anyone's interpretation or the story they want to make for themselves.
It has been said that in order to pursue the history of Biblical interpretation, you must include the whole philosophy of the West, which informs it at every stage.
I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!
