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#interpret

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I like to interpret 'Call me a River', as if I'm saying, 'Now you're telling me you love me after all that, and I'm telling you to shove off.' That's my interpretation. But I would never 'say' that because somebody else might interpret the song in another way.


Diana Krall


#another #another way #because #call #else

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.


Woodrow Wilson


#insight #instrument #interpretation #life #method

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.


John Berger


#any #belongs #does #drawing #however

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.


Henri Bergson


#always #comic #different #each #events

Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.


Ambrose Bierce


#ballot #both #choice #commonly #duty

They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.


Peter Davison


#how #interpret #learn #need #poetry

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.


Catherine Drinker Bowen


#fresh #interpret #life #purpose #reproduce

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.


Sigmund Freud


#activities #interpretation #knowledge #mind #road

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


#every #facts #gets #interpreting #metaphorically

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.


Nat King Cole


#fairy #i #interpreter #like #perform






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