Subjective Interpretations Quotes

Reality has been so politicized such that people truly believe, mostly, that there are two versions of reality: a conservative and a liberal version. In my mind, there's only one version of reality and then those who lie about it. Much as in a court of law.

The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.

There is more than two sides. Facts are often apart from what both sides say about each other.

Men, according to their constitutions and the circumstances in which they are placed, differ honestly in opinion.

Policy is formed by preconceptions, by long implanted biases. When information is relayed to policy-makers, they respond in terms of what is already inside their heads and consequently make policy less to fit the facts than to fit the notions and intentions formed out of the mental baggage that has accumulated in their minds since childhood.

I'm always interested in hearing how other people read and react to my songs. I hadn't thought of it in just that way. One of the things I love about doing things that are creative is that I feel like it's my right as an artist not to be affected by the reactions of those people that are going to hear my songs. But I also feel like it's the right of the people hearing them to have their own interpretations of what these songs mean. Sometimes people will see things that I don't see.

I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on.

No one always or never does anything. People don't see themselves as one-dimensional, so you shouldn't attempt to define them as such.

I always see that there's a - from a philosophical point of view - there's the appearance of things that everybody wants you to think is happening, then there's the reality underneath it.

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

I like films that don't have that unonimity of a response; that don't have consensus in the audience. What it is essentially for me is that if you go back and watch the film a second time, do you feel that you've been played fair with? Are all the clues in place? Indeed, sometimes these things are even overstated. Specifically, for that reason.

We can have fun speculating about why things are the way they are but don't look to science to provide any answers.

Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

Maybe the real subject of every interview is how you really can't learn much of anything about anyone from an interview.

Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.

But opinions, judgments, memories, dreaming about the future—ninety percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential reality.

People that know me know I take stuff personally.

Truth has a way of shifting under pressure.