Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

  • -- Honoré de Balzac 尊敬的巴尔扎克

礼貌只是一般自私的表面现象。

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Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the telephone. Even silence can be electronic, courtesy of sound-canceling headphones.

我们的日常生活中充满了电子钢琴、铃声,以及通过电话给你银行存款的那种无形的声音。即使是无声的声音也可以是电子的,这多亏了可以降噪的耳机。

There's nothing more exciting for an actor than a chance to lose, to be someone who has lost - especially if it's someone who starts off with a veneer of control. To be broken is wonderful.

对于一个演员来说,没有什么比失去一个机会更令人兴奋的了,成为一个已经失去的人——尤其是当这个人一开始就有一种控制的假象的时候。被打破是美好的。

Live for yourself -- there's no one else More worth living for Begging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more.

为你自己而活吧——没有人比你更值得活下去了,因为乞求的手和流血的心只会让你哭得更伤心。

A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

做好事永远不会失去;播下礼貌的,收获友谊;播下仁慈的,收获友爱。

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

自私不是按照自己的意愿生活,而是要求别人按照自己的意愿生活。

The general election is not an organizational exercise - it's a mass media exercise.

大选不是一项组织活动,而是一项大众传媒活动。

And the general opinion is we are much better on stage than in the studio.

一般的观点是,我们在舞台上比在演播室里要好得多。