A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人民
People
That was the problem with getting used to people - you had to miss them when they were gone.
这就是习惯别人的问题——当他们离开时,你不得不想念他们。
Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.
我为什么要在乎别人怎么想?我不在乎观众怎么看我。
At some point you have to realize, some people can stay in your heart, but not in your life.
在某个时候,你必须意识到,有些人可以留在你的心里,但不能留在你的生活里。
It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here.
人们似乎认为,在拉丁美洲,我们对这里发生的事情并不了解。
It's fun to meet people from throughout the world who you don't have to explain yourself to.
和来自世界各地的人见面很有趣,你不需要向他们解释。
You figure that time could heal all wounds, but some people just really hold a crazy grudge.
你以为时间可以治愈所有的伤痛,但有些人真的是怀恨在心。
Confident people have a way of carrying themselves that makes others more attracted to them.
自信的人有一种让别人更喜欢他们的方式。
My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things.
我的直觉总是反对那些想把某种霸权主义强加于人的人。
People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.
人们一直在问人类学和社会学有什么不同,每个人都很紧张。
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
历史是一堆关于从未发生过的事情的谎言,而这些事情是不在场的人从未说过的。
People tend to take things spoken as a joke seriously and things spoken seriously as a joke.
人们倾向于把说的话当笑话来认真对待,把说的话当笑话来认真对待。
It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.
在公司里,没有多少人会因为缺乏幽默感而惹上麻烦。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen - that was when I started feeling good in my life.
在我开始写作之前,我是一个不同的人。当我意识到我可以成为一名作曲家,人们会倾听时,我的生活开始变得美好起来。
It costs so much to promote something these days that almost always safety is the preferred option, reference back to things which have been successful in the past. Also, people are simply not given the time to develop and find themselves and their audience as we were.
如今,推广某项产品的成本如此之高,以至于几乎总是把安全作为首选选项,回顾过去成功的产品。而且,人们根本没有时间去发展,去发现他们自己和他们的观众,就像我们一样。
To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
说任何一个人都不适合自由,就是让贫困成为他们的选择,说他们宁愿背负重税也不愿不负担。
People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
人们常说“美在观者的眼中”,而我认为关于美最解放的事情就是意识到你是观者。这使我们能够在别人不敢看到的地方发现美,包括我们自己的内心。
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
有些人永远学不到任何东西,因为他们理解一切太快。
People and squirrels are very different. Most people will not argue that. But I find that there is one situation in which they're very similar. And that is: when I am driving towards them in my car. Then they're kind of hard to tell apart - especially if the human is kind of hairy.
人和松鼠是非常不同的。大多数人不会这么认为。但我发现有一种情况它们非常相似。那就是:当我开着车向他们驶来的时候。然后它们就很难区分了——尤其是如果人类是多毛的。