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Testimony gives something to be interpreted.
Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
My decision to leave 'Ween', however interpreted, was absolutely not made in haste.
Everybody in this public arena makes statements and gets interpreted different ways.
My childhood was marked by seizures, which my family interpreted as temper tantrums.
Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.
I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's life.
The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.
The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.
Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.
What I like doing is imagery that can be interpreted in any particular way by the person who wears it.
I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively.
Whether I'm in the Hall of Fame or not, I can say whatever I like; it just depends on how it's interpreted!
Putin is a totally inscrutable guy. He gives nothing away. People interpreted what they wanted to see in him.
Sometimes it's nice to have a song that can be taken more then one way, so it can be interpreted differently.
The myriad of ways that a song can be interpreted is astounding to me, and it's part of the allure of writing.
In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
I am proud of my Italian heritage, and nothing I have said should be interpreted as an attempt at minimizing its value.
I have always done my bit to improve Indo-Pak ties, but sometimes you say something, and it is interpreted the other way.
It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.
For me, jazz offers so much freedom in the way the music can be interpreted. It's natural to me. It's where I feel most free.
Zionism needn't continue, and won't continue, to bow its head to a system of individual rights interpreted in a universal way.
But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.
There is no plausible theory under which the record of the Pentagon Papers can be interpreted as relating to the national defense.
In our million-mile-an-hour culture of never enough, working less is interpreted as working less well. This isn't always the case.
The ECB's interventions in sovereign bond markets should not be perceived or interpreted as a 'freebie' for governments. They are temporary.
Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.
Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.
We live in such a gullible world. Anything that's written, anything that's posted, anything picture that is interpreted one way is taken as truth.
We try to write things that can be interpreted on lots of different levels. There's not a right way or a wrong way... people can adventure a little.
Online, your quotes can now be picked up around the world, twisted, translated, and interpreted to mean the opposite of what you have actually said.
I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
I think once you write fiction, you put it out, and it can be interpreted in a variety of ways, some of which are going to be shocking to the writer.
Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.
Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay.
At times it felt as if no one in Government was taking ownership of how COVID-19 directives would be perceived, interpreted and understood on the ground.
Sometimes my biography is interpreted as the upbringing of a French aristocrat. It was very, very different. We were a family of mercantile, immigrant Jews.
What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.
Before 'Raman Raghav 2.0,' I played a criminal in 'Badlapur.' Though the character was innocent, he was not correctly interpreted by some sections of the audience.
The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
That's the miracle of music. No one can reinterpret a Picasso, but a song can be remixed and covered and interpreted in an infinite number of ways. It's a living thing.
I do think we have a responsibility to be aware of the stories we're telling and how those stories will be interpreted and what sorts of value systems we're celebrating.
Some people have interpreted the title of the show - 'Love' - as ironic. For me, it's sincere. The idea that we have to agree with love is a genuine statement about love.
Once E.U. law ceases to be supreme it is unclear how this vast body of law, which will then be incorporated into our own domestic law, will be interpreted by our own courts.
Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.
We read the whole Bible, cover to cover, over and over again... It wasn't that we read selective parts of the Bible. It was that we interpreted it in this very selective way.
I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.
There's no such thing as good or bad dinosaurs. There are predators and prey. The T-Rex in 'Jurassic Park' took human lives and saved them. No one interpreted her as good or bad.