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I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.
我认为我所面临的挑战是和这些令人难以置信的爵士乐手一起进入录音室，并达到他们的卓越水平。这一直是个挑战。
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
这种创造性的行为只持续了很短的一段时间，就像闪电一样的给予和接受，这段时间刚好够你把相机调平，把稍纵即逝的猎物困在你的小盒子里。
When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.
当你穿上西装，当你假装你很诚实，你在更高层次上抢劫，这些家伙应该……嗯，在我的小说里，我为他们保留了特殊的命运。
People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change.
人们认为欧盟是一个单向的过程，是一个巨大的机器，从国家议会到欧洲层面的决策，直到一切都由欧盟决定。这种情况需要改变。
A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.
在当前由西方机械论范式的主导所带来的全球危机中，我们唯一真正的希望可能是彻底的内在转变，并上升到一个新的意识水平。
My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.
我父母之间的关系真的很可怕。我的意思是，他们的仇恨程度，身体虐待的程度——基本上，我的母亲会打我的父亲——我认为我被电视上那些明亮而发人深醒的画面所吸引。
There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.
可能有一些落后的国家，那里的人民群众处于勉强糊口的水平，由于战争或部分作物歉收，那里的生活水平必须大幅度降低，但在我们这些繁荣的国家，情况肯定不是这样。
I see everybody arguing about what the value of music should be instead of what I think the bigger conversation is, which is that music has value, it's subjective and we're moving to a new era where the audience is taking more responsibility for supporting artists at whatever level.
我看到每个人都在争论音乐的价值应该是什么，而不是我认为更大的讨论是什么，那就是音乐有价值，它是主观的，我们正在进入一个新时代，在这个时代，观众在任何层面上都要为支持艺术家承担更多的责任。
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Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
永远不要和愚蠢的人争论，他们会把你拉到和他们一样的水平，然后用经验打败你。
On a practical level, there are two vital steps to ethical behavior: knowing what is right and doing it.
在实践层面上，道德行为有两个重要步骤:知道什么是正确的，并付诸行动。
I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
我没有腰。我只是找到了一个地方，有点像一个没有标记的水平交叉口。
Every level that I have ever competed on, I have risen to the top.
我所参加的每一个级别的比赛，我都达到了顶峰。
On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.
在某种程度上，我们人类可以成为我们想成为的人。
Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.
或许，我们自己对欧洲一体化程度的反对——更不用说对欧洲一体化程度的反对了——是众所周知的。