I've always thought academics should get a little slurry on their boots from time to time.

  • -- Karen Lord 卡伦·劳尔德

我一直认为,学者们应该时不时地沾点油水。

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The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.

我问乔治的问题现在已经成为一个普遍的问题——你,你认为你是多余的,你认为你在社会上没有位置,你不仅不是多余的,你是被需要的,所以那些乞丐变成了给予者。

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.

尽管这个国家自豪地认为自己是一个民族大熔炉,但在种族问题上,我们在很多方面一直是并将继续是一个本质上由懦夫组成的国家。

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.

每当我弹吉他的时候,不管我在说什么,这种情况都会发生,因为音乐是自由的,而自由是我所感受到的最接近精神的东西。

You can sway an audience if you win the women over. The gentlemen will follow 'cause they can be so foolish like that at times, they are easily led.

如果你能赢得女性观众的心,你就能左右他们。绅士们会跟着来的,因为他们有时很傻,很容易被人牵着走。

Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic background.

一旦我从事了某件事,我就真的投入其中,我喜欢阅读和研究的过程,因为我有学术背景。

Nobody wants to be a lawyer - it's hard work. But it was kind of my academic route.

没有人想当律师——这是一项艰苦的工作。但这是我的学术路线。