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身份
Identity
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
一个音乐家必须创作音乐，一个艺术家必须绘画，一个诗人必须写作，如果他想最终与自己和平相处。一个人能成为什么样的人，他必须成为什么样的人。
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.
身份标志是当代知识分子对自己国家的异化过程的表现。
There are all sorts of ways you can take somebody's identity or change your own, and a million things you can do with it once you have. It's quite incredible.
有各种各样的方法可以改变别人的身份或者改变你自己的身份，一旦你有了这些方法，你就可以用它们做很多事情。很难以置信。
The problem is you tend to look back and identify mistakes, and as a consequence of feeling terrible about mistakes you say you bungled this so bad, let's get out of here.
问题是，你倾向于回顾过去，找出错误，由于对错误感到很糟糕，你说你把这件事搞砸了，让我们离开这里。
What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.
穷人、弱者和口齿不清的人迫切需要的是权力、组织，以及一种认同感和使命感，而不是政治科学家的稀罕建议。
My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
妈妈对我说:“如果你成为一名士兵，你就会成为一名将军;如果你成为一名僧侣，你最终会成为教皇。”相反，我成了一名画家，最后成了毕加索。
I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day.
我休息了三年。我使自己与这个行业不同。找到了我的身份——有点……我还没毕业呢。我还没有接受正规的教育，但也许有一天。
We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.
我们已经爱上了肉体。就是那个从镜子里看着我们的东西。那是你一生都在追寻的可爱身份的宝库。
We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
我们创造概念，并用它们来分析和解释自然和社会。但我们似乎在中途忘记了，这些概念是我们自己的构念，并开始将它们等同于现实。
When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
当尤利西斯听到一个史诗诗人唱他自己的故事，然后他暴露了自己的身份，诗人想继续唱下去，尤利西斯不再感兴趣了。这是非常惊人的。
The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.
演戏的关键是你不想让别人知道你有多享受，否则每个人都想成为演员。但事实的确如此。很高兴能和你交换身份。
We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.
我们说我们想创造美、身份、品质和独特性。然而，也许事实上，我们拥有的这些城市是我们想要的。也许正是他们的无个性为生活提供了最好的环境。
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We all need a firm sense of identity.
我们都需要一种坚定的认同感。
The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed the deed is everything.
实干家不过是添加在行为上的虚构，行为就是一切。
One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful for the gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me.
我父母教给我的一件事是，永远不要让别人定义我，我也会永远感激这份礼物。
Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.
告诉我你爱谁，我就会知道你是谁。
The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.
当你放弃国家权力时，你就放弃了自己的身份，这种想法毫无用处。不，实际上恰恰相反:如果以明智的方式来做，你就能获得与其他国家合作更好地解决国家问题的主权。
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
大多数人都是其他人。他们的思想是别人的观点，他们的生活是模仿，他们的激情是引用。