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Quotes about Contexts

The field of the novel is very
rich. If you're a composer,
you're well aware of the history
of composition, and you are
trying to make your music part
of that history. You're not
ahistorical. In the same way, I
think, if you write now, you are
writing in the historical context
of what the novel has been and
what possibilities it has
revealed.
Salman Rushdie
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All alone - shorn of context,
without captions - a
photograph is neither true
nor false.... For truth,
properly considered, is
about the relationship
between language and the
world, not about
photographs and the world.
Errol Morris
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In many contexts, simplicity is not an aesthetic frill. Votes: 0

Elliott Sober
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Context overrides. In different contexts, cells do different things. Votes: 0

Mina Bissell
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I've done many different movies in many different contexts. Votes: 0

Antonio Banderas
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The real hallmark of learning is transferring what you've learned into new contexts. Votes: 0

Eric Mazur
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More often than not, media coverage now mentions HIV-positive people in criminal contexts. Votes: 0

Sean Strub
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We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts. Votes: 0

Jay Maisel
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Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best. Votes: 0

Peter Thiel
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It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings. Votes: 0

A.S.A. Harrison
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Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum. Votes: 0

Rowan Williams
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I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities. Votes: 0

Andrew Sullivan
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The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human laugh. Votes: 0

Frans de Waal
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I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts. Votes: 0

Jonathan Lethem
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The Monkees are to the Beatles what 'Star Trek' is to NASA. They are both totally valid in their contexts. Votes: 0

Micky Dolenz
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts. Votes: 0

Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question. Votes: 0

Warren Christopher
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When alone I am not aware of my race or my sex, both in need of social contexts for definition. Votes: 0

Maxine Hong Kingston
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To toy with something is to manipulate it, to try it out within sets of contexts none of which is determinate. Votes: 0

Susan Stewart
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Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements. Votes: 0

Kenneth L. Pike
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The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams. Votes: 0

Paul Shepard
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Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements. Votes: 0

Kenneth Lee Pike
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I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts. Votes: 0

Cornel West
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I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not. Votes: 0

Sandra Cisneros
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People can't help what topics cut them deep. It all depends on who's inferring - and what the contexts of their lives are at the time. Votes: 0

Sarah Silverman
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Everyday life became infused with urgency as I tried to speak and act in ways that fit the holy script and glorified God in new contexts. Votes: 0

Kevin Vanhoozer
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I'm not a very shy person. I'm just somebody who's got a lot of work and who doesn't like to parade himself in new celebrity contexts. Votes: 0

Alan Moore
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To think, it seems to me, is to hold an idea long enough to unlock and shape its power in the varied contexts of shared human knowledge. Votes: 0

Vera John-Steiner
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I'm trying to be somebody on whom the experience is lost by supplanting it with its telling. I definitely do that in medical contexts, even in trivial ones. Votes: 0

Ben Lerner
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Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner. Votes: 0

Paul Ricoeur
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The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it. Votes: 0

George W. S. Trow
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I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like. Votes: 0

Barbara Kruger
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Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen. Votes: 0

Paul Ricoeur
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To dismiss basic contexts such as link colours, page layouts, navigation systems, and visual hierarchy as 'boring' or 'pedestrian' is akin to laughing at a car's steering wheel as unimaginative. Votes: 0

Jeffrey Veen
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The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic. Votes: 0

Leslie Fiedler
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In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words. Votes: 0

Aldous Huxley
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American cities are kind of difficult contexts to work in. They are politically complex. There are a lot of different interest groups. It takes immense political skill to get anything done at all. Votes: 0

William J. Mitchell
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There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing the contexts in which he prefers to use certain words. Votes: 0

Owen Barfield
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I think about art a lot only in two contexts. One is narrative.The other thing that I'm interested in, which is tangential, but not unrelated... All art to me is about problem solving. Votes: 0

Steven Soderbergh
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I suppose it's fair to say that I am interested in the invention of self or selves. We're all born into certain circumstances with particular physical traits, unique developmental experiences, geographical and historical contexts. Votes: 0

Sarah Jones
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This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the way the brain works but in broader contexts in biology and even physics. Votes: 0

George F. R. Ellis
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I feel like these sounds are the ultimate kind of free sounds, the ultimate public domain sounds. And I feel like people put them in completely different contexts, and they mean something different to everybody. Votes: 0

Julia Kent
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The Aga Khan Awards for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms. This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations. Votes: 0

Aga Khan IV
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The thing about Bob Dylan's performative essence is that he keeps singing these old songs as well as the new songs, and the old songs become new with new arrangements and new contexts as time goes by.

Richard F. Thomas
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Puppets are pure form then ideas for performance come out of that. It's always the form and the visuals and that's why I like to make puppets in a gallery or museum. They're not often in those contexts.

Wayne White
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.

J. Robert Oppenheimer
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The word in language is half someone else's"¦ it exists in other people's mouths, in other people's contexts, serving other people's intentions: it is from there that one must take the word, and make it one's own.

Mikhail Bakhtin
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I believe artists should be able to step into other people's situations, contexts and cultures and work from there. If artists don't have that freedom, then, as someone has said, are we all writing our autobiographies?

Uwem Akpan
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I find it exciting to get any historical material from the ground. As you know, I love to put ancient Israel and its literature into their ancient contexts. And to rebuild - that is, to me, a very exciting historical task.

Frank Moore Cross
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Awareness cannot be taught, and when it is present it has no context. All contexts are created by thought and are therefore corruptible by thought. Awareness simply throws light on what is, without any separation whatsoever.

Toni Packer
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Nothing influences our ability to cope with the difficulties of our existence so much as the context in which we view them; the more contexts we can choose between, the less do the difficulties appear to be inevitable and insurmountable.

Theodore Zeldin
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Characters begin as voices, then gain presence by being viewed in others' eyes. Characters define one another in dramatic contexts. It is often very exciting, when characters meet - out of their encounters, unanticipated stories can spring.

Joyce Carol Oates
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Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.

J. G. Ballard
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Economists sometimes do try to reduce behavior to law-like predictability. But people respond differently to different primes, to different contexts even from one moment to the next. We possess multiple selves that are aroused by different circumstances.

David Brooks
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Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

Johan Huizinga
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All words have the "taste" of a profession, a genre, a tendency, a party, a particular work, a particular person, a generation, an age group, the day and hour. Each word tastes of the context and contexts in which it has lived its socially charged life...

Mikhail Bakhtin
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I must add, though, that I don't believe making disciples must equal making adherents to the Christian religion. It may be advisable in many (not all!) circumstances to help people become followers of Jesus and remain within their Buddhist, Hindu, or Jewish contexts.

Brian D. McLaren
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When alone I am not aware of my race or my sex, both in need of social contexts for definition. Votes: 3 Maxine Hong Kingston


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