A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
东西
Something
Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.
有时候你做了某件事，然后你就完蛋了。有时候是你没做的事情，你被搞砸了。
Today could be the start of the first day of your life. Isn't that something? how beautiful. How astonishing.
今天可能是你人生第一天的开始。那不是东西吗?多么美丽。如何惊人。
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
爱情歌曲比什么都多。如果歌曲能让你有所作为，我们都会彼此相爱。
I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat.
我喜欢食物，觉得这是应该享受的东西。我想吃什么就吃什么。我只是不吃得太多。
You need Power, only when you want to do something Harmful, otherwise Love is Enough to get everything done...
你需要力量，只有当你想做一些有害的事情的时候，否则爱就足够把一切都做完了…
If you look at a magazine and something catches your eye, are you not going to open it up to see what's inside?
如果你在看一本杂志的时候，某样东西吸引了你的眼球，你难道不会打开看看里面是什么吗?
The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.
过渡是困难的。你很难停止做你喜欢的事情，这是非常有益的。
To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
感知意味着固定…我们在感知的过程中抓住了某种超越感知本身的东西。
And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
单纯的讲道，什么时候有什么益处呢?把这些东西放回原处。填补心灵的真空。
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
有的东西比才能稀罕得多，珍贵得多。它是识别能力。
"Yes we can" always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls.
“是的，我们能行”总是让许多人觉得是天真幼稚的口号，就像从营火女孩身上撕下来的东西。
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
我宁愿娱乐并希望人们学到一些东西，而不是教育人们并希望他们得到娱乐。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.
你永远不会意识到你有多么好的记忆力，直到你试图忘记一些事情。
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
你可以把自己从世上的苦难中拉回来，这是你可以自由地去做的事情，也符合你的本性，但也许正是这种克制，才是你可以避免的痛苦。
One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now.
有一件事，当你是一名演员时，你完成了一些事情，然后你不得不担心下一个演出是什么。当你是一个音乐家的时候，你总是可以写你自己的东西，而我现在正在为一张新专辑写新东西。
People learn to lead because they care about something.
人们学习领导是因为他们关心一些事情。
The goal of long-run economic growth without asset price bubbles is not only achievable, but is something we should expect if we put a sound regulatory framework in place and if policymakers remain vigilant.
没有资产价格泡沫的长期经济增长目标不仅是可以实现的，而且如果我们建立一个健全的监管框架，如果政策制定者保持警惕，这也是我们应该期待的。
As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.
作为一个有创造力的人，你只是把一些东西放入你所生活的社会的意识中。