Context Quotes
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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.
George W. S. Trow
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The design of the building addresses the public nature of both the urban context and the internal program. In order to reinforce the building's associative or mimetic qualities, the facades are organized in a classical three-part division of base, middle or body, and attic or head.
Michael Graves
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One of the things about landays is that they thrive in a modern context. Early on I went to this incredible Pashtun novelist, Mustafa Salik, who is a bestselling novelist in Afghanistan and works for the BBC in Pashto. With the question of the sanctity of the poems in mind, I asked him, "Aren't you worried? They've been posted on Facebook and such." And he said, "Just the opposite. This is a folk form; they survive and thrive as people share them."
Eliza Griswold
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The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context.
Edward Hallett Carr
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The hierarchy problem is the elephant in the room. ... And it originally showed up in the context of doublet–triplet splitting problem.
Nima Arkani-Hamed
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All finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out its context. And that context, astounding even to bodily eyes, is the heaven of stars and the incredible procession of the great galaxies.
William Macneile Dixon
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We are now coming to realize that human behavior is determined as much by social context as by rational thinking.
Alex Pentland
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We were orbiting around the idea of intent and context. We would take the bus into work, and if you said, 'Here's a shirt you might like,' and I open it on my mobile phone, I'm not going to pull out my credit card and wallet. We thought, 'How does someone do this? An e-mail to yourself, or you try to remember?'
Harper Reed
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Some of the choices in life will choose you. How you face those choices, these turns in the road, with what kind of attitude, more than the choices themselves, is what will define the context of your life.
Dana Reeve
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In many contexts, simplicity is not an aesthetic frill.
Elliott Sober
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I think some people watch Raging Bull, or they watch The Piano Teacher, and I think they're more, maybe, able to process an antihero in a dramatic context, where people more want comedy to take care of them. But that's not really taking care of people. That's just providing escape, which sometimes is necessary.
Brett Gelman
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I have done interviews in the past, and they cut everything out except for the outrageous line, and then they take it out of context.
Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister
Motörhead
