It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

  • -- Theodore Roosevelt 西奥多·罗斯福

只有通过劳动和痛苦的努力,通过严峻的能量和坚定的勇气,我们才能走向更好的东西。

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A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.

很多人进入喜剧是因为他们的生活或事件中受到了某些痛苦的影响,我真的绞尽脑汁想弄明白。我的童年很正常。也许这太正常了。

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

一个人不是因为专心而无所事事。有看得见的劳动,也有看不见的劳动。思即苦干,思即行。双臂交叉起作用,双手合十起作用。仰望天堂是一种创造的行为。

I have more energy at the end than I do at the beginning. You can be so beat up that you can scarcely walk on stage but when you get to the piano the excitement kicks in, you forget about being tired.

我在最后比在开始时有更多的能量。你可能会被打得几乎不能在舞台上走,但当你走到钢琴前时,兴奋就开始了,你忘记了疲倦。

The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day and age it is tenable to have these nods and winks, and on-the-record and off-the-record briefings.

我们越快摆脱游说体系,对我们所有人就越有利。我不认为在今天这个时代,有这些点头和眨眼,公开和非正式的简报是站得住脚的。

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

工作和生活是为了服务他人,为了让这个世界比你发现它时更美好一点,为自己争取尽可能多的内心平静。这是幸福。

Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads.

因为在本质上,我对恐惧感兴趣,对勇气和懦弱感兴趣,这些更容易通过小说表现出来,你可以进入人们的脑海。

I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations most often.

我最常从一对一的谈话中获得能量,而我最常从集体谈话中失去能量。

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

毫无疑问,一个人要努力改善自己的条件,但首先要改善自己。

I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough.

我没必要这么说。我必须把它写下来。这已经够痛苦的了。

Often the test of courage is not to die, but to live.

对勇气的考验往往不是去死,而是去活。