People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.

  • -- Ricky Gervais 里基·热尔维斯

人们混淆了笑话的主题和笑话的目标,而且他们很少是一样的。

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If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I'd be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more.

如果有相似之处,那只是因为别人的想法和我的一样。如果有人能想出任何真正原创的、有趣的超能力,我会很惊讶。

I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for them is not very long, and the joke becomes old news very quickly.

出于很多原因,我对政治事务非常谨慎。其中一个重要的问题是,它们的保质期不是很长,而且这个笑话很快就成了老新闻。

Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.

和其他歌剧作曲家一样,我选择一个主题不是为了争论,而是因为它包含了在高度紧张的戏剧场景中生动的人物。

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

所有的东西都有同样的气息——野兽、树、人……空气与它所支持的所有生命共享它的精神。

When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.

当你给爱荷华人讲笑话时,你可以看到他的大脑和他的表情之间有一种竞赛。

This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony.

这种同步的动作便会成为主体,这就是具有代表性的和谐。