While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I thought people wanted me to be. I'd say yes when I wanted to say no, and I even wore a few dresses.

  • -- Ellen DeGeneres 艾伦·德杰尼尔斯

当我在做单口相声时,我想我肯定成功意味着让每个人都喜欢我。所以我成为了人们想让我成为的那个人。当我想说“不”的时候我会说“是”,我甚至还穿了几件衣服。

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I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful.

我现在很清楚,音乐是一门生意,但也有一种方法可以让你创作出真实的音乐,而不是走走过场,做出一些商业上成功的东西。

When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights.

当这个男孩被带到杨医生那里时,他的名字叫威廉,和我的名字一样,我妈妈奉命把我的名字换成别的名字。在当时,我认为这是对我的权利所能采取的最残酷的行为之一。

You know, the market was down yesterday... my first thought when I heard-just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, Time to buy.

你知道,昨天市场下跌了……我的第一个想法是,就我个人而言,当我听说发生了这次袭击,今天早上我看到了期货,当时真的很不景气,我想,是时候买进了。

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

我们需要接受这样一个事实:我们不会总是做出正确的决定,我们有时会把事情搞砸——要明白失败并不是成功的对立面,而是成功的一部分。

As a kid growing up in the back streets of Dublin I used to pretend I was playing in the World Cup with my mates out on the streets, and now I will be doing it for real.

小时候,我在都柏林的后街长大,我常常假装和队友们一起在街上踢世界杯,现在,我真的要这么做了。

My children are all doing just fine. The mountain dogs are great in this weather. The yorkies are freezing.

我的孩子们都很好。这种天气山区的狗很好。约克人冻坏了。