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Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings. — David Adjaye

We're all spies. What do we have if not our rumors, our half-truths, our fragments taken out of context? — Joakim Zander

Every time [Rand Paul] opens his mouth, it gets a little crazier. Today he angrily demanded that the liberal media stop quoting him in context. — Bill Maher

We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence. — Sam Harris

To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality. — Indira Gandhi

Love is a context, not a behavior. — Marilyn Ferguson

Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen. — Wayne Thiebaud

Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context. — Edmundo Desnoes

Most of my critics don't even listen to me; they are clueless. They just go to Web sites that report what I say out of context. — Rush Limbaugh

I feel like guys don't think it's cool to use emojis. I'm like, that's so whack. Emojis help so much. They really do give context to something. — Donald Glover

The road itself tells us far more than signs do. — Tom Vanderbilt

LinkedIn and Flickr, among other sites, have already proven freemium can generate revenue in the social media context. — Ryan Holmes

So much of design is context. — Steve Madden

Fifty grand for a paper bucket? Well it was all about context, you see. — Paul Christensen

I rarely find that things put in quotes, attributed to me, are things that I said -certainly in the context in which they are presented. — Annie Potts

Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors. — Kenneth Noland

I want the music to be ambiguous. Its tone gives you a context in which to start visualizing what you're feeling with the music. — Glenn Branca

In cooperative learning, you have a purposeful, meaningful, and authentic context in which children can sharpen their communicative skills. — Lilian Katz

The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it. — Stephen Shore

As we cannot hangout with a machine and tell what exactly to do, we just hang a few things out of context and say, "doing this would still do"! — Prakash Hegade

A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense. — Walter J. Phillips

My identity is without root. — C.S. Friedman

Context is everything. — A.D. Garrett

Sometimes, if you're like me, [God] will brace or reprove in a highly personal process not understood or appreciated by those outside the context. — Neal A. Maxwell

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

We must do the same with death in our lives: resolve it, give it meaning, put it into context, however hard that might be. — Yann Martel

Maybe in any art you have to be wholly you in the context of whatever you're doing. — Mariel Hemingway

Need theories can thrive only in a context where the emphasis is on the individual rather than the community and where consumption is a way of life. — Edward T. Welch

You can't motivate people, you can only create a context in which people are motivated. — Brad Feld

You've got to develop relationships. You can't do things just in a formal context. — Kenneth Chenault

I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context. — Marianne Wiggins

Too often, our concept of pastors and church leaders reinforces rather than obliterates the sad state of family life in our current context. — Russell D. Moore

I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious. — Sarah Hall

Place is not the background of archaeology - it's the point. As any archaeologist will tell you, context is everything. — Marilyn Johnson

Listen more than you talk. Whatever the context, people will think you're smarter. — Esther Dyson

Love requires Context. — Joe Hill

The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War. — Stephen Kinzer

am, as an English poet says in an entirely different context, 'as free as the road, as loose as the wind.'" Brunetti — Donna Leon

Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context. — David Byrne

I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Freedom can only be understood in the context of destiny, or those things which limit our freedom. — Louis Hoffman

I feel like a quote out of context, — Ben Folds

When other girls were dreaming about love, she dreamt of love too, but in an entirely different context - the ones they took for granted. — Donna Lynn Hope

The music from my youth has aged poorly and is now like a joke out of context. You had to be there. — Jonathan Tropper

Hateful, racist and ignorant remarks. When I hear people criticize without knowing the context, it makes me boil inside. — Kristen Stewart

Still, I believed I understood. Or maybe I just put it in a context I could safely manage. — Alexandra Styron

That's the problem with the Internet: You do a naked scene and then it's taken out of context and put on websites that have nothing to do with film. — Clemence Poesy

Innovators are pioneers, great problem-solvers; and creators of a better context. — Pearl Zhu

I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context. — John Dewey

A love relationship has always been shaped by the context and times we live in. — Gael Garcia Bernal

Fantasy is only a state of mind that you can employ when existing in a real context. — Woody Allen

I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context. — Ted Stevens

Do you follow the wrestling? Most people think it's illegal, but you can watch it there. Ruby and Python are on display this evening. — Samuel R. Delany

With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present. — Neil Postman

With language, as with so much, context is all. — Cecily

When we give thanks in all things, we see hardships and adversities in the context of the purpose of life. — Dallin H. Oaks

Life is the pursuit of eternally broadening context. — Scott Woods

Ecological awareness expands the context of life; it also enlarges who we are as a person. — Richard J. Borden

Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view. — Brian Ferneyhough

I believe in the unlimited power of women in the context of science and engineering. — Elizabeth Holmes

After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism. — Elliott Abrams

We are talking about Christianizing America. We are talking about the Gospel in a political context. — Paul Weyrich

Life's the adventure. You don't have to drop your bundle and go bush. It's about being brave within the context that you're in. — Robyn Davidson

God thundered again and again through the prophets that worship in the context of mistreatment of the poor and disadvantaged is an outrage. — Ronald J. Sider

Good Heaven! That is enough to drive away all my pains; I could mount him with thirty balls in my body. On my soul, handsome stirrups! — Alexandre Dumas

People took the word "clean" out of context. My mother had an expression: "clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack." I inherited her originality. — Joe Biden

Michael Porter said that "corporations can use philanthropy to improve their competitive context — Anonymous

When you learn through coding, [you're] coding to learn. You're learning it in a meaningful context, and that's the best way of learning things. — Mitchel Resnick

The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through the transformation of form, the essence of the surrounding context. — Vittorio Gregotti

Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context. — Idries Shah

Agile is not prescriptive and which techniques are appropriate will depend on the context. — Pearl Zhu

In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal. — R.D. Laing

One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness. — Terence McKenna

Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third. — Joseph Epstein

Out of context," as Wes Jackson has said, "the best minds do the worst damage. — Wendell Berry

I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work. — Andy Goldsworthy

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish. — Trey Anastasio

In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin. — John Ortberg

I always have to be thinking about who's going to be singing this song, what the context is. I don't sit around just writing in a vacuum, ever. — Adam Schlesinger

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me. — Chris Van Allsburg

What you can do is present existing flavors in a fresh way, in a fresh context. — Danny Meyer

Context is worth 80 IQ points. — Alan Kay

Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really just buttons. — Douglas Rushkoff

Taken out of context, I must seem so strange — Ani DiFranco

People in hell want snowcones. — Nora Roberts

When things did go wrong for the IRA, when civilians were killed, I tried to put it in context, not defend it. — Peter T. King

context is not meaning. — Claudia Rankine

To be a child of the Third World is to be aware of the many different constituencies you have and how honesty and truth must always depend on context. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think. — Conor Oberst

Instapaper wouldn't be of as much value if it weren't for these mobile and e-reader devices. They give you a separate physical context for reading. — Marco Arment

Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad. — Zadie Smith

Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another. — James Geary

Mindset & context are the 2 main ingredients entrepreneurs and leaders must use for creating sustainable real success — Tony Dovale

Learning always occurs in a context of taking action, and they value engagement and experience as the most effective strategies for deep learning. — Richard DuFour

We live in a context, but we're also individuals. We need to explore both. — Nitin Sawhney

Within the E.U., in a wider context, people are increasingly recognising the need to prevent the abuse of free movement. — Theresa May

You judge people in the context of their time, not in the context of ours. — Dennis Prager

Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context. — Isabel Allende

WHY has no value, if you cannot rethink resourcefulness in a limited context. — Tony Dovale