A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
任何东西
Anything
If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.
如果你没有养狗,至少没有一只,那么你不一定有什么问题,但你的生活可能有问题。
Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
电视可以在大众教育中发挥巨大的作用,但没有迹象表明它的赞助商有这样的想法。
A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.
大学的本质特征是成为一个自由调查和批评的中心——这是一件不能为其他任何事情牺牲的事情。
I'm not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.
我不是什么有名无实的人。我是一个有两个孩子的单亲妈妈。我还能做什么?要么在乐队里,要么当服务员。
I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.
我在蚊子海岸做得最好。我知道这首歌没有那么大的成功,但对我来说,它比我做过的任何事情都更有意义。
The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
世界上大部分是由低能儿和天生的暴君组成的,他们对自己很自信,对自己的观点很坚定,从不怀疑任何事情。
If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
如果给我一个公式,而我不知道它的意思,它不能教我任何东西,但如果我已经知道它,这个公式教我什么?
I would be surprised to see the White House scaling back on anything. That would be an admission they are operating from a position of weakness.
如果白宫缩减开支,我会感到惊讶。这将是他们承认自己正处于弱势地位。
A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.
你不看的报纸可以用来做任何事情;同样的人也不认为用报纸包装垃圾是不道德的。
My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
我想不起他的名字,但我对他了如指掌。当我需要名字的时候,它们就会从我的脑海中消失;当我不需要他们的时候,他们就会回来。
There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?
有一种垃圾文化,我们把垃圾倒在人们身上。然后民意调查人员跑来跑去,做了个调查,说,你闻到什么了吗?
Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.
学习你的乐器。要诚实。不要做任何虚假的事情。到处都是垃圾。这里有足够的空间进行一些诚实的写作。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Whatever sport you choose, do it because you love it, and don't expect to be an expert first thing. It takes time to do well at anything, but if you love it, you'll stick with it.
无论你选择什么运动,都要因为热爱它而去做,不要期望自己首先成为一名专家。做好任何事情都需要时间,但如果你喜欢它,你就会坚持下去。
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
教育是一种能力,能够倾听任何事情而不发脾气或失去自信。
In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.
在过去,人们看到袜子会感到震惊,但现在,上帝知道,一切都会过去。
I don't know how much influence we really had, because we never put our pictures on the albums or anything and we never really promoted the Talking Heads connection, because we wanted to keep it separate from Talking Heads.
我不知道我们真的有多大的影响力,因为我们从来没有把我们的照片放在相册或其他东西上,我们从来没有真正促进过“会说话的脑袋”的联系,因为我们想要把它和“会说话的脑袋”分开。
I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.
我总是发现任何值得实现的事情总会有障碍,你必须有动力和决心去克服这些障碍,朝着你想要实现的目标前进。
Life is too short to be anything but happy.
人生苦短,只有快乐。