He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

一个允许自己撒一次谎的人,发现第二次和第三次更容易,直到最后成为习惯。

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I found out a long time ago that if I didn't have a good story for a song, I could just make one up! Now it seems over half the stories in my show are made up. The funny thing is, those seem to be the ones that resonate the most with the audiences.

我很久以前就发现,如果我没有一首好歌的故事,我可以编造一个!现在看来,我的节目中有一半以上的故事是虚构的。有趣的是,这些似乎是最能引起观众共鸣的。

As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.

不出所料,唾液腺神经装置的发现立即促使生理学家在消化道深处的其他腺体中寻找类似的装置。

Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed.

习惯比理智磨损得更频繁、更猛烈,而在我们最需要理智的时候,却很少有人去公平地考虑它,也很少有人去服从它。

I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way.'

我对自己说,‘我已经等了很长时间想要个孩子了,我错过了,我想继续我的事业,但不是这样。’

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

从好的方面来说,死亡是少数几件躺下就能轻松完成的事情之一。

You shape your habits then they shape you for the rest of your life.

你的习惯塑造了你,它们也塑造了你的余生。