Quotes About Context

By no means am I excusing homophobic rap lyrics, but as a product of the same environments that birthed hip-hop, I fully understand why those lyrics existed.

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.

In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context.

If I use the word 'khichdi' in my novel, I don't have to get into the trouble of explaining that it is a dish of rice and lentils. My Indian readers know it.

I don't want real life necessarily to be seen only as a context to heighten the deepness my work.

I have immense respect for Christopher Nolan for taking a character called 'Batman' - taking a comic book - and making people believe in him in a real world context.

The average British person would hear me doing my joke about Rebecca Adlington and realise there's no malice in it. It was an off-the-cuff ad lib.

When I started to write, I realised that you need a bit of both: the overall context as well as the individual's experience.

The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.

There is a saying in Arabic meaning that every situation must be considered based on the realities on the ground. I can talk in some places freely, but not in others.

Losing a goal in the last minute? Important, of course it is, but not really in the grand scheme of things.

For me, it depends only on the script, the part I'm doing, and the people around me. It could be in Greenland or the Sahara. I don't care.

I like to stay within the context of the character's background. If he's a cop, I have to make sure the audience is convinced that this person, a cop, can do only so much without a gun.

The gutter is Bertie Ahern's natural habitat.

I read. And you know 'no offense' means 'I am about to be or have just been fucking offensive.

It was one of those kinds of looks that changes meaning with time and place.

that everything, whatever happens, has three meanings.

To understand a man, Napoleon said, you need to know how the world looked when he was twenty.

Never approach a crying woman entering a sports bar carrying a harpoon gun.

I get tired of people talking about ''bad words'' and ''bad language''. Bullshit! It's the context that makes them good or bad.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

There is no Chomskyan person, for whom language is pure syntax, pure form insulated from and independent of all meaning, context, perception, emotion, memory, attention, action, and the dynamic nature of communication. Moreover, human language is not a totally genetic innovation. Rather, central aspects of language arise evolutionarily from sensory, motor, and other neural systems that are present in lower animals.

it's not enough just to say "equality" or "responsibility" in a speech, because conservatives and progressives each have their own understanding of what these values mean. You have to talk about your understanding of each of these words.

If my kids are doing well, then my life is going pretty well. And if my kids aren't doing well, it doesn't matter how the other elements of my life are. It's kind of amazing to have a context like that. This is really wonderful.