When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

  • -- Thomas Paine 托马斯·潘恩

当人们放弃思考的特权时,自由的最后阴影就会离开地平线。

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I had been thinking for a while about how bored and tired I was of playing straight-down-the-middle everymanish characters that have what I call white guy problems. And I missed playing characters who lacked dignity and more importantly, lacked social skills.

我一直在想,我是多么的无聊和疲惫,我已经厌倦了扮演那些有着我所谓的白人问题的普通角色。我想念扮演那些缺乏尊严,更重要的是,缺乏社交技巧的角色。

The worst thing is always thinking of titles for records, with some reason behind them, and she just came out with the word, which she thought was a good word, a hard word, and since then we've sort of attached loads of meaning to it.

最糟糕的事情总是想到唱片的名字,背后有一些原因,她刚说出这个词,她认为这是一个好词,一个难词,从那时起,我们就赋予了它很多意义。

Just like I find men who talk sports who don't really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don't really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive.

就像我发现那些谈论运动却不知道运动的男人令人讨厌一样,我认为男人可能会发现那些对运动没有真正热情和知识的女人可能不那么有吸引力。

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

自然权利…是每个人都有自由,可以根据自己的意愿使用自己的权力,以保护自己的本性;也就是说,他自己的生命。

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

家务劳动是唯一一项男人可以一直不称职的活动,因为人们认为他们在其他方面都很能干。

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

一个人的名誉就像一个影子,它在你之前是巨大的,在它之后是渺小的。

I know not what course others may take but, as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.

我不知道别人会怎么做,但对我来说,要么给我自由,要么让我死。

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

如果你站得笔直,不要担心你的影子是否弯曲。