Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

  • -- Edgar Watson Howe 埃德加·沃森·豪

如果不是因为他们无法控制的谈话欲望,许多人会更诚实。

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The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.

我们如何为福利国家提供资金的问题不应掩盖另一个单独的问题:如果每个人都认为自己拥有不可剥夺的福利权利,不管世界发生什么,那不是公平,而是创造一个你不能向人们提出任何要求的社会。

I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person's experience.

我喜欢调查各种各样的人,我想,找出是什么造就了他们,我试着在描述中诚实,真实,并找出如何理解那个人,如何传达那个人的经历。

I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.

像大多数人一样,我小时候上过钢琴课。像大多数人一样痛恨他们。然后像大多数人一样辞职。

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

要有说服力,我们必须是可信的;要使人相信,我们必须是可信的;我们必须诚实。