A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
自我
Self
Let me begin by saying, we were almost all wrong, and I certainly include myself here.
首先，我们几乎都错了，我当然也包括我自己。
I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
我讨厌花——我画它们是因为它们比模型便宜，而且它们不会动。
When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.
当我看着我的孩子们，看着他们轻松地学会了音乐，我希望我也能那样。
My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
我不得不说，我的声音很神奇，因为我生来就有腭裂。
Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.
事实上，这是一个事实，我一直在做更多的写作比玩在最近几年。
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
我的目标是以最好最简单的方式把我看到的和感觉到的写在纸上。
I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate.
我不恨任何人。我不喜欢。但我的不喜欢相当于任何人的讨厌。
I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.
我一直在做我一直在做的事情那就是做一个有趣的记录。
I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.
我不知道一次高兴一整天是什么滋味，甚至不知道高兴一个小时是什么滋味。
I mean, there are times when you aren't working, but still believe that work will come.
我的意思是，有时候你不工作，但仍然相信工作总会到来。
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
对自然的掌握被错误地认为是对自我掌握的适当替代。
I take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it.
我为我所做的一切感到骄傲。我什么也不想要。我想要赢得它。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
我们必须敢于做我们自己，不管这个自我是多么可怕或奇怪。
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
尊重你的努力，尊重你自己。自尊导致自律。当你把两者牢牢地绑在腰带上，那才是真正的力量。
I never dreamed I would do Westerns.
我做梦也没想到我会拍西部片。
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
自我保护是自然的第一法则。
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
离开我们所爱的人就是离开自我——一种致命的放逐。
I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
我不想伤害别人，也不想让别人看到我，但人们似乎很容易忘记我。