"My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in the eye of the beholder; our deductions are so often different it is impossible they should always be right."

-- C. V. Wedgwood

#Eye Quotes #Years Quotes #History Quotes

“Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.”
“Love is a jeering mime.”

Source : Kenneth Rand (1915). “The Dreamer, and Other Poems”
“I liked doing comedies, but as I got older I was better suited to do Westerns. Because I think it becomes unattractive for an older fellow trying to look young, falling in love with attractive girls in those kinds of situations ... Anyway, I always felt so much more comfortable in the Western.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I do feel good doing them [family-friendly movies], but it's not going to be my way of life. I'm a comedian.”
“I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.”
“I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that we wouldn't have access to.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.
“The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.”

Source : Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. June 2006.
“I left my record label, Polydor, by mutual agreement, but I'm going to carry on with my singing career.”

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