To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.

  • -- George H. Mead 乔治·H·米德

要对公共利益感兴趣,我们就必须不感兴趣,也就是说,不感兴趣的是与我们个人利益息息相关的东西。

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These days we seem more bound to our bosses than ever before. We even identify our own selves with the jobs we do: 'What do you do?' is the first question we ask each other at parties, as if a job title could express a fundamental truth about our personality.

如今,我们似乎比以往任何时候都更离不开老板。我们甚至把自己和工作联系在一起:‘你是做什么的?这是我们在派对上互相问的第一个问题,似乎一个职位头衔可以反映出我们性格的一个基本事实。

I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.

我真的不确定我的艺术传达了什么社会信息,如果有的话。我不想让它带一个。我对这个主题不感兴趣,我不想教社会什么,也不想让我们的世界变得更好。

I think that the best part of music is when it comes from a real place and has an ability to kind of connect on a much larger scale. It no longer is a personal thing, it becomes everyone else's thing as well.

我认为音乐最好的部分是当它来自真实的地方并且有能力在更大的范围内连接。它不再是个人的事情,而是每个人的事情。

The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.

个人事务应该被排除在会议的平台之外。你们可以当面争辩,但你们不会改变对方的想法。这是浪费你我的时间。

If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.

如果有电影项目,而且时间合适,我可能会感兴趣。

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

一个人有多少个认识他的人,他就有多少个社会自我。