Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

  • -- Edmund Burke 埃德蒙伯克

每当我们邻居的房子着火时,我们自己的引擎就会发动一点,这是不会错的。

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We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.

比如,我们要在空军一号上拍一集,我们要在空军一号上随心所欲,就像在白宫一样。

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

房子必须让每个人都满意,而艺术作品则不然。这件作品是艺术家的私事。房子不是。

The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

在这个世界上,要想出人头地,既不要比你的邻居聪明,也不要比他们更聪明,也不要比他们更坏。

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

我们交朋友;我们树敌;但上帝创造了我们的邻居。