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The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about soul, being

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about past, fasting, present, society, world

I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.

Quote by Aaliyah about art, dance, word, life

Music is for everyone to interpret in their own way. You may hear a song and feel one way about it, and I feel another.

Quote by Aaliyah about music, contentment

I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is.

Quote by Erykah Badu about music, love

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

Quote by Ansel Adams about art, photography, infinite

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

Quote by George W. Bush about law

A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper - a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.

Quote by Charles Dickens about being

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about idea, nature

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about intention, common sense, sense

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about law

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about judges, law, rest

I had these ideas of interpretation that went way beyond the standard Conservatoire limits. So I was at war with my piano teachers.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about limits, teachers, war

I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation

Quote by Dustin Hoffman about things, contentment

Acting is mostly interpretive. They use different parts of you, and different sides of you, and different so-called talents.

Quote by Mick Jagger about use, contentment

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Quote by James Joyce about man

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Quote by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

Quote by Paracelsus about dream, art, magic

It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact hence changing general statements about it and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about knowledge, body