A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人民
People
People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
人们首先关心的是满足自己的基本需求;只有在这之后,他们才会追求更高的需求。
I prefer to cry alone. Pride? No. I just want to avoid the trial of people who don't know the reason of my tears.
我宁愿一个人哭。骄傲吗?不。我只是想避开那些不知道我流泪原因的人的审判。
Do not dump your woes upon people. Keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
不要把你的不幸转嫁给别人。把你生命中的悲伤故事留给自己。一遍遍地叙述,麻烦就会增加。
My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
人们说我的单口相声现在很好。每次都像是一场大对话。每一场演出都是一次彩排。
Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.
因为人们会活得更久,也会变老,所以他们只需要学习如何长时间成为婴儿。
Listen to them moan, but those people will be going mad if we beat West Germany by a goal in the World Cup Final.
听他们抱怨,但如果我们在世界杯决赛中以一球击败西德,那些人会发疯的。
To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.
对于那些不了解我的人来说,我被一些人们对我的一些完全不真实的了解所定义。
Sometimes you have to be your own hero, because sometimes the people you can't live without can live without you.
有时候你必须做自己的英雄,因为有时候你不能没有的人也可以没有你。
If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you.
如果有人说了一些粗鲁无礼或下流的话,你必须半信半疑,因为他们不认识你。
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
所有的战争宣传,所有的尖叫、谎言和仇恨,无一例外地来自那些没有参战的人。
People just want to know something, anything. It's all the stuff you never want to talk about, the private stuff.
人们只是想知道一些事情,任何事情。这些都是你永远不想谈的私事。
The older I get, the less I care about what people think of me. Therefore the older I get, the more I enjoy life.
年纪越大,我越不在乎别人怎么看我。因此,年龄越大,我越享受生活。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
没有坏天气这种事,只有软弱的人。
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。
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。
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
花总是让人更好,更快乐,更有帮助;它们是阳光、食物和灵魂的良药。
If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.
如果你能做自己最擅长的事,并且快乐,你就比大多数人在生活中走得更远。
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
如果一个人今天没有比昨天更聪明,我认为他没有多大价值。