A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Maybe a part of me recognized how right the improvising spirit of jazz is. Not the sounds, but the freedom to work with musicians who work that way. It felt very natural to me, but I think there's a way to do it without it being a jazz record.
也许我的一部分意识到爵士乐的即兴创作精神是多么正确。不是声音，而是与这样工作的音乐家一起工作的自由。这对我来说很自然，但我认为有一种方法可以做到这一点，而不是一张爵士唱片。
There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.
人在多大的程度上完全遵行神的一切诫命，尽他一切的能力，没有一点瑕疵。这就是神的律法所要求的，却是圣徒今生不能达到的。
I think it was a possibility, I think we're all kind of delusional like that, we think that we can all carry on being who we are without bending ourselves to make ourselves acceptable and expect someone to come along and see to us and rescue to us.
我认为这是一种可能性，我认为我们都有点像那样的妄想，我们认为我们都可以继续做我们自己，而不让自己屈服，让自己被接受，期待有人来看望我们，拯救我们。
To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.
要寻求永恒的道路，我们必须先知道没有名字的品质。在一个人、一座城市、一座建筑或一片荒野中，有一种核心品质是生命和精神的根本准则。这种品质是客观和精确的，但却无法命名。
The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.
习惯所带来的痛苦，以及遵循习惯所带来的内在乐趣，都是大自然赋予我们意志的动机，通常我们并不在意为什么要这样做;她有时甚至命令说，她的理由决不是我们的。
Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.
至少在思想领域里，你是没有锁链的;你有权探索任何高度和深度;在广阔的思想空间里，没有墙，没有栅栏，没有禁地，没有神圣的角落。
And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.
有某些事情,他们很明显,显然,不无聊,但是我的意思是很明显,两个明显和容易的被甘地和自由而哭泣,有些事情我做非常关心,我想站起来和计算。
If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings.
如果你问某人是否喜欢音乐，他们会奇怪地看着你。这似乎是一个普遍的假定。比如问别人是否喜欢呼吸。就像呼吸一样。或空气,而。内外流动。一个我们的生活被设定在其中的矩阵。
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I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.
星期天我会去看我妈妈，而我哥哥正在做一些事情。我要进去唱一段旋律，然后我们开始用单词来练习，接下来你知道的是，它就这样自然而然地诞生了，而不是真正地去尝试。
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.
奴隶制只被废除了一半，解放只完成了一半，而手中握有选票的数百万自由人却没有受到教育。
You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
没有那些走进你生活的人，你将一事无成。
There's no way I could look like this without them.
没有他们我不可能变成这样。
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
一个好的领导者的天才之处在于，他留下了一个没有天才风度的常识可以成功处理的局面。
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
我从未见过野生动物自怨自艾。一只小鸟会从树枝上冻死，而不会为自己感到难过。