A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人民
People
I want people to react to my work, to think, to question, to challenge, to cry and laugh and feel.
我希望人们对我的工作做出反应,去思考,去质疑,去挑战,去哭泣,去欢笑,去感受。
I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
我总是与那些与我同席而坐,或与我同寝于其屋的人们的政见有关。
People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t.
能不断改变的人比不能改变的人更可靠、更快乐。
All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.
所有我喜欢的人——我真正信任的人——在他们年轻的时候都不酷。
Some people are going to be happy with my decision, some people aren't... But I must live my life.
有些人会对我的决定感到高兴,有些人则不会……但我必须活下去。
When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters.
当人们为自由而斗争时,除了新主人之外,他们很少能从胜利中得到任何东西。
Smart people talk about ideas. Common people talk about things. Mediocre people talk about people.
聪明人谈论想法。普通人谈论事情。平庸的人谈论人。
You will find that hate can unify people more quickly and more fervently than devotion ever could.
你会发现,仇恨比忠诚更能迅速、更强烈地团结人们。
When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
当人们抱怨生活时,几乎总是因为他们对生活提出了不可能的要求。
People aren't always going to be there for you, that's why you learn to handle things on your own.
人不会永远在你身边,这就是为什么你要学会自己处理事情。
You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.
如果广告是对的,预算足够大,你就可以一直愚弄所有的人。
It's very interesting to know what people are doing while you're working on late-night television.
当你在深夜看电视时,知道人们在做什么是很有趣的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.
做一个有趣的人对你有很多好处。你觉得你不应该对别人太认真。他们不期待你这么做,他们也不想看到你这么做。你没资格严肃,你是个小丑。
I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.
我觉得我们比以前聪明多了。每个人都知道抽象艺术可以是艺术,大多数人知道他们可能不喜欢它,即使他们知道它还有另一个目的。
I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill.
我挑选年轻人,在比我改变董事会成员工作方式所需的时间更短的时间内教他们,我还请演员来扮演他们必须扮演的角色。
If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
如果人们破坏了人类创造的可替换的东西,他们被称为破坏者;如果他们破坏了上帝创造的不可替代的东西,他们就被称为开发者。
Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.
老实说,很多人认为我是世界上销售数百万张唱片的冠军,这是每个人都想要的生活,但我从来没有享受过我的任何成功。
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
当然,思想开放的问题在于,人们会坚持走过去,并试图把东西放进去。