Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.

  • -- A. N. Wilson A.N.威尔逊

在所有的说谎者中,最傲慢的是传记作家:这些人会让我们相信,在调查了几个装满信件、日记、银行对账单和照片的盒子之后,他们可以像录音天使一样,讲述另一个人生活的全部真相。

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There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.

没有任何方法可以客观地对待任何事情。我们完全主观的;我们对世界的看法完全取决于我们是谁,男人还是女人,取决于我们的年龄,我们的历史,我们的职业,以及世界的状况。

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.

一个人开始相信他经常对自己重复的任何事情,不管这个陈述是对是错。它在一个人的头脑中占主导地位。

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

统计学家的定义:一个人相信数据不会说谎,但他承认,在分析中,有些数据也站不住脚。

There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.

没有什么比青春更傲慢自大,也没有什么比机器更能取代青春。

I never want to become arrogant and think I've made a flawless movie.

我从来不想骄傲地认为自己拍了一部完美无瑕的电影。

Your boss is only human and just wants the best from you.

你的老板只是个凡人,只想从你这里得到最好的。