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“I need to be able to explain myself in context.”
“Context is worth 80 IQ points.”
“I tend to be a bit of a hermit. A bit monkish. I like to tune out the context.”
“Taken out of context I must seem so strange.”
“I’m not conniving – that has a pejorative context. I’m not sitting in back rooms making deals. That’s not my style.”
“Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context.”
“Nuclear deterrence doesn’t work outside of the Russian – U.S. context; Saddam Hussein showed that.”
“Oftentimes, especially in the context of an acoustic song, I’m motivated to write by some amount of melancholy.”
“The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what’s fascinating to me.”
“It’s a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.”
“Even within the context of the alternative scene I was a part of, within punk and hardcore and the alt scene, there was a focus on self-destruction.”
“After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism.”
“Pushing ahead with a self-emancipatory agenda is critical, but we must do so fully conscious of this broader context of our development efforts.”
“Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.”
“Language usage always has a political context.”
“Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.”
“As a storyteller, dates and time equal context.”
“A vest, as a clothing item, always makes a statement, but depending on context, those declarations vary a great deal.”
“I’m also fascinated by the interplay between personal history and the larger forces that form the context for our lives.”
“I like the language in Proust but not the context.”
“Context begins with other artists – seniors and mentors.”
“Providentially, learned habits can be unlearned, especially in the context of moral groups.”
“Mycologists are few and far between. We are under-funded, poorly represented in the context of other sciences – ironic, as the very foundation of our ecosystems are directly dependent upon fungi, which ultimately create the foundation of soils.”
“I don’t approach films purely in context of genre.”
“LinkedIn and Flickr, among other sites, have already proven freemium can generate revenue in the social media context.”
“I don’t see that books can be written without political context – not if they’re relevant and ambitious.”
“My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.”
“So much of design is context.”
“If actors are trying to convey, in a smart way, the context of the scene, that becomes too self-conscious.”
