You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

  • -- Tom Brokaw 汤姆·布罗考

你是受过教育的。你的证书就是你的学位。你可以把它看作通往美好生活的门票。让我请你想出一个替代方案。把它看作是你改变世界的门票。

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I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.

我明白,我曾经认为电脑不过是一台雌雄同体的打字机兼文件柜,但它为懂网络的人提供了更强的沟通能力。我不认为这完全是一件坏事,不管表面上看起来如何。

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.

生活本来就不容易。处于高位或低位是很难接受的。我想我是宿命论者。我认为,你必须有历史感,才能在这些事情中生存下来……生活是一个接一个的危机。

So many more people recognise you and want to take up a moment of your time for a photo or a hello. You try to deal with it with grace and a degree of humour, because what's the alternative?

越来越多的人认出了你,想占用你一点时间来拍照或打招呼。你试着用优雅和一定程度的幽默来处理这件事,因为还有别的选择吗?

I always felt like Broadway was not for me - in terms of ticket price, in terms of what was on there. I never saw myself reflected in the mirror of the Great White Way.

我一直觉得百老汇不适合我——就票价而言,就演出内容而言。我从来没有看到自己映在白色大道的镜子里。

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

虽然竞争法则有时对个人来说很难,但对种族来说却是最好的,因为它确保了适者生存。

I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world. Then I just lap it up.

我只是把浪漫喜剧看作是科幻小说的一个亚种,在这个亚种中,我所创造的世界与我平常的人类世界有着不同的规则。然后我就把它吞下去。

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

我认为每个人都应该上大学,拿到学位,然后做六个月的酒保和六个月的出租车司机。这样他们才会真正受到教育。

We all know that change is inevitable. It provides us with a challenge and an opportunity to grow and improve and to attract new members with new ideas.

我们都知道改变是不可避免的。它为我们提供了一个挑战和机会来成长和改进,并以新的想法吸引新的成员。

Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I'll say a similar thing; it's very tiresome.

懒惰的记者,他们会读一些东西,然后得到引用,然后再问同样的问题,希望我能说类似的话;很烦人的。

The moment when you think that you are the loneliest person in the world, you close your eyes and feel ,it is much better this way.

当你觉得自己是世界上最孤独的人时,闭上眼睛去感受,这样会更好。

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

我想过什么是女权主义的另一种说法。没有一个。这是一个非常好的词。这是无法改变的。

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

你可以通过你最喜欢的电影来规划你的生活,没有两个人的地图是相同的。

Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?

有些人看着已经存在的东西,问为什么。我梦想着从未有过的事情,并问为什么不呢?

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

我们只能知道我们一无所知。这是人类智慧的最高境界。

The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.

美好的过去并不总是美好的,明天也不像看上去那么糟糕。

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

我认为你的整个人生都表现在你的脸上,你应该为此感到自豪。

The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.

底线是,你爱你的妻子,你尽你所能。

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

没有一个国家能真正发展,除非它的公民受过教育。

You have to change the set, stay ahead of the curve.

你必须改变设置,保持领先。

I think and that is all that I am.

我想,这就是我的全部。