I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.

  • -- Brad Holland 布拉德·霍兰德

我一直不明白,为什么艺术家们总是屈尊于自己文化的陈词滥调,却如此渴望接受自己一无所知的文化的陈词滥调。

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The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.

氏族不过是一个大家庭,以族长为自然首领,由几个氏族通过通婚和自愿结合而组成部落。

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

表面上的慷慨往往不过是一种伪装的野心,它为了获得一份大的利益而忽视了一份小的利益。

Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.

董事们必须督促我。我必须被推上去。不是一直,但是经常。

Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.

没有什么比一部正确的人类历史对我们更有益的了。