Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy.

  • -- Fred Barnes 弗雷德·巴恩斯

候选人不必面对现实。他们谈论他们能完成的美妙的事情,好像提倡它们和实现它们是一样的。他们生活在一个政治虚幻的世界里,从调和利益冲突到为昂贵的项目买单,一切都很容易。

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Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.

许多人认为技术是所谓数字鸿沟背后的问题。其他人则认为这是解决方案。技术既不是。它必须与商业、经济、政治和社会制度共同运作。

Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn't go too far out of the box.

通常我喜欢即兴发挥。有时,根据作品的性质,我喜欢即兴创作,因为我认为它能带来一定的新鲜感和现实感,只要不太出格。

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

艺术是一种现实,而不是一种定义;因为它接近现实,它就接近完美;因为它接近一个简单的定义,它就不完美,不真实。

I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water, and was prepared to give up everything in life, he could do it.

我相信,如果一个人想在水上行走,并准备放弃生活中的一切,他可以做到。

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

因此,电影是社会的一部分,离它并不遥远,对于任何阶层的人来说都很容易体验。

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

当人们在他们的环境中变得容易时,他们自然是创新的敌人。

A more significant phase should mean serious political dialogue.

一个更重要的阶段应该意味着严肃的政治对话。

I believe in my music.

我相信我的音乐。