As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

  • -- Margaret Mead 玛格丽特·米德

任何一个成年人,只要他认为自己像过去的父母和老师一样,可以变得内省,唤起自己的青春去理解他面前的青春,他就迷失了。

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Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.

现在,如果有人认为我们可以让经济向前发展,只需要少数顶层的人做得很好,希望它会慢慢惠及那些跑得越来越快的工薪阶层,只是为了跟上经济的步伐,你永远也看不到这种情况。

I'm old enough, by a long shot, to remember going to the library and spending days researching. If I was looking for a line from a poem or something else I needed, that would be the trip I would have to take.

从长远来看,我已经足够大了,可以记得去图书馆花了几天时间做研究。如果我要从一首诗或其他我需要的东西中寻找一句话,那就是我必须经历的旅程。

A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large.

一个人如果一年内被赶去捕龙虾,他就被称为疯子;但是,如果一个人认为人可以通过魔法变成天使,那他就被称为“射线制造者”,他仍然逍遥法外。

In the old covenants the people were sprinkled with blood of calves without, in their bodies, to bind them to keep the law; else we were bound to just damnation, for the breaking of it.

在旧的契约中,人们把牛犊的血洒在身体上,以约束他们遵守律法;否则,我们一定会因为破坏了它而受到诅咒。

Any time there is 'un-forgiveness' between people who love each other, there is suffering. Any time people face challenges that they really don't understand... there is suffering.

任何时候,只要爱着对方的人之间存在“不宽恕”,就会有痛苦。每当人们面对他们不理解的挑战时……有痛苦。

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

灵魂的不朽对我们是如此重要,如此深刻地影响着我们,以至于我们一定失去了对它漠不关心的所有感觉。

The adult May fly lives only a few hours, just long enough to mate. He has neither mouth nor stomach, but needs neither since he does not live long enough to need to eat.

成虫可能只活几个小时,刚好够交配。他既没有嘴也没有胃,但既不需要吃东西,因为他活得不够长,不需要吃东西。

All I will say is that I'm playing a lot of different roles that, to be honest, are more interesting and demanding than any I've played before.

我想说的是,我正在扮演许多不同的角色,说实话,这些角色比我以前扮演过的任何角色都更有趣,要求也更高。

Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.

教师工会是一个维护自身利益的利益集团,这意味着工会老板的利益,而不是成员的利益。

Everyone else we knew growing up is the same: image of their parents, no matter how loud they told themselves they'd be different.

我们在成长过程中认识的每个人都是一样的:他们父母的形象,不管他们对自己说得有多大声,他们都会不一样。

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

没有人能把一根链子套在同伴的脚踝上而不发现另一端拴在自己的脖子上。

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.

我知道我没有参与这场战争,我知道我今天要比你们任何一个人做出更多的牺牲来确保和平。

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

对一个领导者的最后考验是,他把信念和意志留给其他人。

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

我们希望每个人都像成年人一样,停止玩游戏,意识到这不仅仅是我的方式或高速公路。

I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.

我在那里浪费了一两年的时间,试图为那些我不知道永远无法获得融资的电影筹集资金。

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

我们的前半生被我们的父母毁了,后半生被我们的孩子毁了。

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

我的父亲,上帝保佑他,是个音乐家。他的父亲认为他的音乐是垃圾。

I never had long hair before I got busted. I never had a beard before I got busted.

我被抓之前从来没有留过长发。我被抓之前从来没留过胡子。

I just get the same stuff as I did before, but the price tag is much higher.

我只是得到了和以前一样的东西,但是价格要高得多。

That picture has become a sort of yardstick for everything else I've done.

这张照片已经成为我所做的一切的标尺。

You've got to understand when a collaborator isn't satisfied anymore.

你必须明白当一个合作者不再满意的时候。

If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there.

如果你不知道你要去哪里,任何一条路都会把你带到那里。

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

绕圈子的人有福了,因为他将成为一个大轮子。

I believe in my own choice i don't need approval from others.

我相信自己的选择,我不需要别人的认可。

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

没有人比那些失去热情的人更老了。

I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

我很幸运,我有一些老师在我身上看到了一些东西。

I'm an introspective dude.

我是个内省的人。