A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.
我不想被认为是一个幸存者，因为你必须继续陷入困境，才能展示你的天赋，而我对此已经不感兴趣了。
I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.
不过，我不会回到过去;每个人都需要狂野的岁月。这只是一个时间的问题，我宁愿早点吃，也不愿把它当作中年危机一类的事情来做。
I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.
我不认为我的书是传记。我从来没有兴趣写一本书，只是为了写一个伟人的生活。我对此毫无兴趣。我的兴趣在于权力。权力是如何工作的。
I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.
我一直对日常生活中的政治最感兴趣:你与你所做的任何事情的关系，或者你的抱负是什么，你住在哪里，你发现自己处于社会的哪个阶层。
And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
在第二次世界大战期间，你不仅仅是在报纸上读到它因为你不被允许在报纸上读到它。都经过审查了，你知道吗?所以没人知道我们在做什么。
I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.
我想推广诗歌，让所有秃头的孩子都跑来跑去做诗歌，把音乐挡在一边，只说不做，然后看看会发生什么。
There were times in my career I went a little further than I wanted because of expectations. Doing certain things onstage when children were in the audience, wearing certain clothes, singing certain lyrics.
在我的职业生涯中，有时我会因为期望而走得比我想要的更远。当孩子们在舞台上，穿着特定的衣服，唱着特定的歌词，做着特定的事情。
I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes.
我不设定目标。这就是我多年后想做的事情。我做我现在喜欢做的事。如果我明天醒来决定要跳舞，我就会这么做。或设计衣服。
And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place most confidence to be present in August at the leading of the corn, and to guard it as aforesaid.
在此，我建议你把你最信任的家人派到你的土地上最好的庄园去，他们将在八月里出现在你的面前，负责管理谷物，并按照上面所说的那样守护它。
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
没有一个学生仅仅因为做了要求他做的事情就获得了卓越的成就:正是超出要求的事情的数量和卓越，决定了最终卓越的伟大。
And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn't necessarily given to me, and that people didn't necessarily think that I would be able to do.
我确实认为，在我职业生涯的早期，我确实做了一个非常有意识的决定，确保我所做的工作不一定是别人给我的，也不一定是别人认为我能做的。
While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I thought people wanted me to be. I'd say yes when I wanted to say no, and I even wore a few dresses.
当我在做单口相声时，我想我肯定成功意味着让每个人都喜欢我。所以我成为了人们想让我成为的那个人。当我想说“不”的时候我会说“是”，我甚至还穿了几件衣服。
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The only risk we run is by doing nothing.
我们唯一的风险就是什么都不做。
If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock and roll is; it's relentless.
如果你真正地挖掘你正在做的事情，如果你把它摆出来，没有人会不回应。这就是摇滚乐;这是残酷的。
I still don't know if I'm good enough or if it's a calling or a vocation or something, but the talent part is out. My desire to do it is undoubted. I just love doing this.
我仍然不知道自己是否足够优秀，或者这是否是一种召唤，一种职业，或者其他什么，但是天赋部分已经过时了。我做这件事的愿望是毫无疑问的。我就是喜欢这么做。
Even if I went off to some other career, I hope I would still be doing Coen films.
即使我改行了，我还是希望能继续拍科恩的电影。
I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that.
我喜欢做工艺品，所以我可能会去那些有趣的陶瓷小地方，画一些盘子，做一些有趣的事情。
You are exactly where you should be. You are doing exactly what you should be doing.
你就在你应该在的地方。你正在做你应该做的事。