- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Filtered Quotes
How truth passes through perspective.
These filtered quotes look at how truth, art, and belief always pass through personal perspective, from creative influence to concerns about media honesty. See Culture quotes for more on perspective.
- Last Updated on Jul 30, 2026
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I've learned is that it's okay to take from heroes, such as Debussy, but it has to be filtered through my own personality so that ultimately it's me.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
- Missing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many reasons I love novels with multiple narratives. In novels where the events are filtered through the consciousness of a single 'reliable' narrator, I often wonder, is this the whole story? What could be missing here?
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything you see is filtered through your visual system (imperfect) and your brain (also imperfect, despite what your mom told you). Witness testimony is the worst kind of evidence in science.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
His belief in the power of music to convey ideas - not just entertain - has filtered down to musicians in every field, from alt-rock to hip-hop, from Bruce Springsteen and U2 to Arcade Fire and Kanye West. Popular music is different because of Johnny Cash.
- Bottles
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm scared by the enormous amount of bottled water being consumed today, instead of people drinking filtered tap water. Did you know that nearly 90 percent of those plastic bottles are not recycled and wind up in landfills where it takes thousands of years for the plastic to decompose?
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madonna: she's not the best singer in the world, but she's got where she has through hard work.
- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would not have stayed at a university if it told me upfront that a condition for me getting tenure. my views have to be filtered through Catholic values. I would consider it a betrayal of my parents' legacy.
- Guilty
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's interesting is, say, the O.J. trial and when the verdict came out, and there were people who celebrated, and there were people who thought that he's guilty, and it's a crime. Those reactions tend to be filtered through our own experiences.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
What podcasts can do in order to liven up the talk show area of TV is bring new personalities and unique worldviews into the fray in a way that's not going to be filtered through the whole Q-rating thing. I think there's a whole new layer of doing things that TV is behind the Internet in figuring out.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes shutting off the sound on the television can allow you to actually watch the game and take it in in an entirely different and more direct way - a first-order, first-person experience - rather than filtered through the mind of another.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American understanding of China is filtered through years of politics; we rarely see the culture on its own terms.
- Fingertips
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- Nov 07, 2020