Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.

  • -- Al Franken 弗兰肯

是啊,我们一出校门就搬起石头砸了自己的脚。一开始经营这家公司的人在我们有多少资本的问题上误导了几乎所有人。他说我们有足够的钱过三年不赚钱的日子,也有足够的钱过三个星期。

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I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.

我很快就写了很多东西:一页又一页的笔记,开始看起来很不连贯。大部分都是从广播中截取的,因为作为一名家长,我突然要面对每天每时每刻都在播报新闻的广播。

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

获得智慧有三种方法。第一种是反射,反射是最高的。第二个是限制,这是最简单的。第三是经验,这是最痛苦的。

Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man.

让我们预先告诉我们的立法者,这是一项权利,我们不愿对其加以限制;每一次试图抑制它的行为都是对上帝和人类的明显错误。

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

只有经过多年的准备,年轻的艺术家才应该触摸色彩——不是用来描述色彩的,而是作为一种个人表达的手段。

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

把你的手放在热炉子上一分钟,就像一个小时。和一个漂亮女孩一起坐一个小时,感觉就像一分钟。这就是相对论。

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'

如果我能给你三个字的建议,那就是:“说实话。”如果我还有三个字,我会加上,“一直”。

Everything happens for a reason. There's not much point holding onto those that don't deserve to be a part of your life.

每件事的发生都有原因。抓住那些不值得成为你生活一部分的人没有多大意义。

Well, first of all, they're all about the music and all I care about in my professional career is the music.

首先,它们都是关于音乐的,我在职业生涯中只关心音乐。

It wasn't my best. You take the bad with the good. Sometimes the bad is good enough.

那不是我最好的。你接受坏的和好的。有时候坏的就足够好了。

I've always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.

我总是在正确的时间和地点。当然,我是自己开车去的。

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

做你自己。这是超越自我的第一步。

We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.

我们都是用死亡来换取生命,所以在这两者之间的一切都应该是免费的。

There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.

像五角大楼的文件一样,每年至少应该有一次泄露。

Keep your head up; you are so much better than you believe. I promise.

抬起头来;你比你想象的要好得多。我保证。

We are all, right now, living the life we choose.

我们现在都过着自己选择的生活。

One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.

一个太多了,一百个还不够。