Context Quotes - page 4

Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific context or a character. (Hedi Slimane)
We must stress that the euro has been beneficial to the European Union because, otherwise, in this context of international turmoil, every country would have to devalue their currencies. View quote
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia. View quote
Jack Horner
You know, I think I'm more of a micro-person, so to me, the context and the framework of trying to do what you love and feel passionate about, in supporting your family in that way, is the most important thing to me. View quote
Joan Cusack
Murders with guns are the No. 1 cause of death for African-American men between the ages of 15 and 34. But talking about race in the context of guns would also mean taking on a subject that can't be addressed by passing a law: the family-breakdown issues that lead too many minority children to find social status and power in guns. View quote
Juan Williams
Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective. View quote
Kenneth Lee Pike
I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive. View quote
Kathryn Bigelow
I've come to understand my role. On some level, I provide the context for them to shine. I also know my role is the steward of the songs, and the center point, the artist that the stuff all revolves around. But I really try to honor that. View quote
Kathy Mattea
A government should not function based on the pressures of some or others. It should try to adapt a mix of measures that fits every context and generates the appropriate steps forward. View quote
Laura Chinchilla
Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people. View quote
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction. (Melissa Gilbert)
I'm used to always being different, in any context. People always want to know how I grew up, so I just say I grew up Muslim. That's the truth. Two Muslim girls can write me two extremely different letters - and they do. Some are very supportive, and some question what I do. View quote
Noureen DeWulf
The dark side of social media is that, within seconds, anything can be blown out of proportion and taken out of context. And it's very difficult not to get swept up in it all. View quote
Nicola Formichetti
Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books. View quote
Peter M. Brant
I saw and I met a lot of people who were in the field. It also provided a context in which I came to respect what the actor did, because I saw how difficult it actually was to do. View quote
Ron Silver
Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique. View quote
Richard Attenborough
I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context. View quote
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events. View quote
Thomas Lynch
I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it. View quote
William Odom
In fact, quantitative findings of any material and energy changes preserve their full context only through their being seen and understood as parts of a natural order. View quote
Walter Rudolf Hess
I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect. (Kiefer Sutherland)
Abusive' (or 'hostile,' which in this context I take to mean the same thing) does not seem to me a very clear standard - and I do not think clarity is at all increased by adding the adverb objectively or by appealing to a reasonable person's notion of what the vague word means. View quote
Antonin Scalia
I am also, I must confess, a little sceptical of the theory that we have a right, if we could, to pass on our capital burden to future generations. I remarked last year in this context that our predecessors had not passed any significant part of their burden on to us. View quote
John James Cowperthwaite
Slavery is the ultimate form of being ripped from one's context, and thus from all the social relationships that make one a human being. View quote
David Graeber
Freedom means having the right to freely educate your children, and freely means no obligation to send them in a public school, where teachers want to inculcate principles different from the principles that their parents want to inculcate them in a familiar context. View quote
Silvio Berlusconi