I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.

  • -- Steve Martin 史蒂夫·马丁

我没有天赋。我不唱歌,不跳舞,也不演戏,尽管围绕着那个小细节工作让我有了创造力。

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When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions.

当法官有权力决定某一法规中哪些区分是合法的,哪些是不合法的,他就有权力反对任何和所有的立法,因为所有的立法都有区分。

My students know I have a life, they know I've written about my life. They know some detail, probably more than they know about their physics teacher, but I would've told them anyway!

我的学生知道我有自己的生活,他们知道我写过自己的生活。他们知道一些细节,可能比他们对物理老师知道的还多,但无论如何我都会告诉他们!

So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.

因此,对我来说,与更大的公司一起工作常常是非常令人满意的,这正是因为我有能力将关键的大规模投入到特定的工作中去。

I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do.

我喜欢鼓励有才华的年轻作家尝试帮助他们出版,等等,但仅此而已。这是我能做的最好的了。

When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic.

当你是一个非常有野心的人,令人失望的事情是当你周围的人没有那么热情。

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

政治上的同床异梦从来都不奇怪。只有那些没有看过求爱过程的人才会这么认为。

I am confident and I work so hard to be confident. If I wasn't talented, then I wouldn't be as confident.

我很自信,我很努力地去变得自信。如果我没有天赋,我就不会那么自信。

It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.

站在一旁,除了记录身边的痛苦,什么都做不了,这并不总是件容易的事。

These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working classes.

这些花园可以称为受人尊敬的工人阶级的花园。

I like the comedians that go into detail and tell longer stories.

我喜欢那些讲故事讲得很详细的喜剧演员。