If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

  • -- Abraham Lincoln 亚伯拉罕·林肯

如果有什么事是一个人能做好的,我说让他去做。给他一个机会。

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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

所以人们认为我一直在谎报年龄?是记录错了。我从来没有告诉过任何人我有多大。他们一问我,我就说:‘这不关你的事。所以这意味着我从来没有谎报过自己的年龄。现在这是真的!

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

正如我赞同一个年轻人身上有一点老人的气质一样,我对一个老人身上有一点年轻人的气质也同样感到高兴。遵守这条规则的人,身体可能会变老,但思想永远不会变老。

I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.

每次踏上舞台,我总觉得我的未来危在旦夕,这让人毛骨悚然。在某种程度上,我只是说,别害怕,你不会做错什么,这是你的表演。

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

人最大的不幸是,他没有器官,没有眼睑,没有刹车,无法在他想要的时候掩盖或阻止一个想法,或所有的想法。

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

如果上帝没有让吃喝成为一种必需,也没有什么比吃喝更令人厌烦的了。

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

我的父亲,上帝保佑他,是个音乐家。他的父亲认为他的音乐是垃圾。

Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.

不要屈服于你的恐惧。如果你这样做了,你将无法与你的心灵对话。

I don't have a specific thing I want anyone to get out of anything I do.

我并没有特别想让任何人从我所做的任何事情中得到什么。

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

相信机会的人必须遵守机会的结果。

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

孤独者的任务是使自己更加孤独。

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

自由不过是一个变得更好的机会。

What is to give light must endure burning.

给予光明的东西必须忍受燃烧。

I didn't say I was running, did I?

我没说我在跑步,是吗?

Life well spent is long.

花得好的生命是长久的。