I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

  • -- Oscar Levant 马刀舞曲

我想人们不会因为什么而记住我。但我不会用这些术语来思考我的工作。为子孙后代而工作和为金钱而工作一样庸俗。

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Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

既然我们不能活得长久,那就让我们把至少还活过的一些纪念留给后代吧。

I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.

我希望人们记住,是我帮助我们恢复了对自己的信心。

My goal is to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer.

我的目标是作为一个人,作为一个伟大的演员被人们记住。

If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.

如果征服不能约束子孙后代,那么契约也不能约束子孙后代。