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Quotes About Interpretation

Everyone has a point of view. Some people call it style, but what we're really talking about is the guts of a photograph. When you trust your point of view, that's when you start taking pictures.
~ Annie Leibovitz
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
~ Hal Abelson
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means.
~ Umberto Eco
The Minutemen were seen as more of an art thing than Black Flag, although I didn't see them that way. It confused people when we put out Saccharine Trust, too.
~ Greg Ginn
You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.
~ Mark Twain
I have a tendency to trust translators, mainly because nobody does it for the money.
~ Juan Gabriel
There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them.
~ Vaclav Havel
As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
With too little data, you won't be able to make any conclusions that you trust. With loads of data you will find relationships that aren't real... Big data isn't about bits, it's about talent.
~ Douglas Merrill
Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.
~ Jonathan Swift
Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Trust your reader. Not everything needs to be explained. If you really know something, and breathe life into it, they'll know it too.
~ Esther Freud
Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to trust the audience to get it.
~ Charles Grodin
With the camera you might even not need the reporters. But, you see, media can't trust you to watch [Barack] Obama without them telling you what you just saw and analyzing it.
~ Rush Limbaugh
You cant just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.
~ Estelle Parsons
First trust your eyes... then check by rules. Many times something else is happening, and the rules will not apply.
~ Sergei Bongart
There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
~ Leon Trotsky
Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.
~ John von Neumann
Tagore once said - art has to be beautiful, but, before that, it has to be truthful.
~ Ritwik Ghatak
Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.
~ Terry Eagleton
I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.
~ Allen Ginsberg
People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.
~ Shelby Foote
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
~ Jane Austen