Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

  • -- Mary Schmich 玛丽·施密奇

要明白朋友来来去去,但你应该把握住一些珍贵的朋友。你年纪越大,就越需要那些在你年轻时就认识你的人。

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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

很少有人有真正的艺术才能。因此,通过努力来刺激局势既不合适,也没有效果。如果你有一种强烈的,不安分的写作或绘画的冲动,只要吃点甜食,这种感觉就会过去。

What can I say? I deal with it. I think I have come to terms with my absolutely hateful and vile childhood. No, I have, really. But I did hate it at the time. I resented it. There were elements of it that were positively Dickensian.

我能说什么呢?我处理它。我想我已经接受了我那充满仇恨和邪恶的童年。没有,真的。但当时我真的很讨厌它。我憎恨它。其中有些元素是狄更斯式的。

I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.

我总是看着书,想知道怎么会有人想出这么多单词。但我的离婚以及后来爱上了别人,让我拥有了除写歌以外的其他写作能力。

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

你们花费了许多生命和财富,为许多不愿接受自由的国家带来了自由。在这里,你们有一个自己赢得胜利的民族,他们只需要帮助就能保护它。

If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.

如果一个人在全人类中找到了一个朋友,那么他就找到了比任何财富都珍贵的东西,因为世界上没有什么东西比真正的朋友更珍贵。

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it."

如果你想把一个人对你所能倾注的最大的轻蔑和仇恨之杯全部吸干,让一位年轻的母亲听到你叫她亲爱的宝贝“它”吧。

Comedians... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious.

喜剧演员……他们和演员不同。那里有更多的自我。它们创造了整个东西,我想,所以它们更珍贵。

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

我不需要一个随我改变而改变,随我点头而点头的朋友;我的影子做得更好。

A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.

很多男人都想和我约会。甚至年长的人也在看着我。需要一些时间来适应。

I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.

我想变聪明。你要经历很多才能到达那里,但我愿意经历很多。

When you're young and desperate to hold on to a place in the team you do whatever is asked of you.

当你年轻的时候,不顾一切地想要在团队中占有一席之地的时候,你会做任何别人要求你做的事情。

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

直到几年前,我的博士学位课题还不流行,但今天却很受欢迎。

Sometimes we expect more form others because we would be willing to do that much for them.

有时我们对别人期望更高,因为我们愿意为他们做那么多。

I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

当我看到我的沐浴玩具是一个烤面包机和一台收音机时,我知道我是一个被遗弃的婴儿。

When she cries, don't say a thing, just hold her tight, and make her feel safe.

当她哭的时候,什么也别说,紧紧地抱着她,让她感到安全。

As I get older, I realize all I've done is sing and act and hone those skills.

随着年龄的增长,我意识到我所做的一切就是唱歌、表演和磨练这些技能。

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

这个世界越恐怖,艺术就越抽象。

If you get a change, take it if it changes your life, let it.

如果你得到了改变,就接受它,如果它改变了你的生活,就随它去吧。

When I was young I knew I was deaf. I couldn't accept it.

当我年轻的时候,我知道我是聋子。我不能接受。

Getting shit done is the best way to predict the future.

完成任务是预测未来的最好方法。

He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods.

他是神,如果人是神的话,他可能是人。

Maybe if you knew my pain maybe you'd feel the same.

也许如果你知道我的痛苦也许你也会有同样的感觉。

Friends tie their purse with a cobweb thread.

朋友们用丝线扎钱包。

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

超越和不达标一样是错误的。

The shameful never have dear friends.

羞耻的人永远没有好朋友。