Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.

  • -- George Gilder 基尔德

电视并不因为人们粗俗而粗俗;这是粗俗的,因为人们在他们的好色的利益上是相似的,在他们的文明的关注上是截然不同的。

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Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.

在第二次世界大战及其所伴随的情况给世界带来的不祥阴影下,和平已成为文明生存的必要条件,正如我们呼吸的空气对生命本身一样。

Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people working together racially, ethnically, rich and poor - all segments of the city.

我关心的是人民,关心的是维护稳定,关心的是让人们在城市的各个阶层——种族、民族、贫富——共同工作。

I have jokes I've told before and will tell again, but my favorite part of the night is talking to the crowd.

我以前讲过很多笑话,以后还会讲,但是晚上我最喜欢的部分是和观众聊天。

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

艺术家唯一关心的是追求某种完美,而且是按照他自己的方式,而不是别人的方式。

There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'

没有人能对我说:‘做这个,做那个。’

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

为伟大而激动是庸俗人的恶习。

Frugality is for the vulgar.

节俭是为俗人准备的。