Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.

  • -- Maurice Saatchi 莫里斯·萨奇

人的本性是不能根据当时流行的趋势作出预测的。它服从于伟大的艺术家、导演、作家、音乐家、演员的惊人创造力,他们知道如何触动世界各地人们的心弦。

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I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.

我想所有去过剧院的人都更喜欢它。电视是一种……工厂。你在旋转装配线上生产东西。你没有时间去完善电视上的任何东西。

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

当人们缺少教师时,他们的倾向得不到纠正;当他们没有仪式和道德准则时,他们的无法无天是无法控制的。

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

在古代,圣人国王认识到人的本性是坏的,他们的倾向没有得到纠正,他们的不法行为受到控制。

There comes a time for everybody when words and reasons can become such a great weariness.

对每个人来说,总有那么一个时刻,言辞和理由会变得如此令人厌倦。

I predict one of these two teams will win the Super Bowl.

我预测这两支球队中的一支将赢得超级碗。