There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

  • -- Bliss Carman 布利斯·卡曼

有一种追求完美的激情,你很少能看到这种激情得到充分的发展;但你可能会注意到,在成功的人生中,它从来不是完全缺乏的。

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Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is tempered by that; you're successful in this way given the fact you are black, and most blacks don't get to that point.

我生命中的每一天都带着这样的想法走着:我是黑人,不管我有多成功。我们的成功也因此受到了影响;考虑到你是黑人,你在这方面是成功的,而大多数黑人没有达到这一点。

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

我可以原谅,但我不能忘记,只是另一种说法,我不会原谅。宽恕应该像一张作废的便条——撕成两半,烧掉,这样它就永远不会对一个人显现出来。

If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today.

如果我没有经历过考验——没有激情,有人会说——没有经历过这么痛苦和富有的岁月,我不相信我能像今天这样承担起我的生活和事业。

When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from the audience that maybe you were lacking as a kid.

当你站起来的时候,似乎有一个共同点,那就是你需要得到观众的认可,而这也许是你小时候所缺乏的。

I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.

我真的认为传记电影很少有效果,因为人们的生活没有一个可以令人满意的戏剧性的形状。

Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.

像看待成功一样看待不幸——不要惊慌!做最好的自己,忘记后果。

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

作家的快乐是能成为情感的思想,能完全成为思想的情感。

The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.

伴随成功而来的最好的事情是知道自己并不渴望什么。

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

一个人的头脑只能想到他自己的问题;它很少会让自己感到惊讶。

I was putting myself under enormous pressure to be successful.

为了成功,我给自己施加了巨大的压力。

Christina can sing all the notes, but Britney is just hot!

克里斯蒂娜能唱出所有的音符,但布兰妮就是太性感了!

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

压抑你的激情,否则它会压制你。