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Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.
在我做过的所有事情中,最重要的是协调那些和我一起工作的人,把他们的努力目标定在一个特定的目标上。
For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.
在你的前半生,人们会告诉你应该做什么;在下半场,他们会告诉你应该怎么做。
My father always told me, you can only be your own best. In other words, if you feel you've done your best, you've done well enough.
我的父亲总是告诉我,你只能做你自己最好的。换句话说,如果你觉得自己已经尽力了,那么你已经做得足够好了。
It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
完美是不可能的——你总能做得更好。我从来没有为我所做的感到骄傲。有时候,我并不感到羞耻。
What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.
激发我的与其说是音乐,不如说是与作曲家互动的机会。我想这就是我所做的一切。
He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.
在勇敢的人所能忍受的责任斗争中混在一起的人,一定会树敌。如果你没有,那么你所做的工作就是微不足道的。
There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.
我想做一些事情,如果我能重新回到以前的状态,处理我感兴趣的问题,这对我来说很兴奋。
I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you're going to be taken through.
我认为电视节目一直做得很好,原因之一是它能让人感到安慰,让你知道自己将要经历什么。
Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist.
生活与九十年代不同了。我是一个父亲,除了成为一名艺术家,我还有其他的事情要在下午完成。
Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.
那些处在我现在所处的地位上的人,通常都为他们是否值得受到这一伟大的荣誉而感到忧虑。
I have to play baseball to make me happy. I have to be an athlete. But when it's all said and done, I'll be a normal father. A normal-type house man.
我必须打棒球来让我快乐。我必须成为一名运动员。但当一切尘埃落定,我将成为一个普通的父亲。一个普通的居家男人。
It can not be done; it shall not be done! I speak for the great masses of the Mississippi Valley, and those west of it, when I say you shall not do it!
这是不可能的;这是不可能的!我代表密西西比河谷的广大人民,以及它以西的人民,说,你们不能这样做!
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I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.
我想成为一名建筑师。我毕业时获得了建筑学学位,并获得奖学金回到普林斯顿大学获得建筑学硕士学位。我在大学里演过戏剧,但我演是因为它很有趣。
Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted.
现在,我不指望我写的东西能改变什么。我想我现在写作只是作为一个证人。事情就是这样。这就是我们所做的。这是我们所允许的。
All of a sudden you have this feeling of clarity. Backcountry snowboarding has really done a lot to boost that feeling in me.
突然间你就有了这种清晰的感觉。乡村滑雪板真的让我的这种感觉增强了很多。
Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
几乎所有伟大的事情都是由年轻人完成的。
I often sit back and think, I wish I'd done that, and find out later that I already have.
我经常坐下来想,我希望我已经做了,然后发现我已经做了。