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人民
People
We find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.
我们发现左边和右边有同样多的东西可以撕扯。极左派和极右派对我们来说是同一个人。
People always think that if you eat anything as a model, it's amazing. I used to tease them and say, you know I'm going to throw up afterwards.
人们总是认为,如果你像模特一样吃东西,那就太棒了。我过去常常逗他们说,你知道我之后要吐了。
People try to make sense of things, and if they don’t know the answers, they make them up,because for some, a wrong answer is better than none.
人们试图理解事物,如果他们不知道答案,他们就会编造出来,因为对一些人来说,一个错误的答案总比没有好。
A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.
小说使我们不仅能够理解事件,而且能够理解控制事件的人;不仅是他们的选择,还有他们的动机。
In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.
在现实生活中,确实有几代黑人一直处于中产阶级,但在娱乐领域,他们似乎并不存在。
I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about.
我喜欢对自己所做的事情充满热情的人,比如旅行、运动、工作。我喜欢和有自己感兴趣的人在一起。
Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.
社会不能继续因为他们需要对人进行分类或对另一个人的能力作出假设而使自己丧失能力。
I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.
我不觉得缺乏希望。令人失望的是,这么多年过去了,我们仍然在为少数人打无意义的战争。
A lot of people on the internet have been saying that there's no way we can pull off a musical in three acts. We just take that as a challenge.
很多人在网上说,我们不可能把一部音乐剧分成三幕。我们只是把这当作一个挑战。
I don't go to the cool, trendy restaurants. I go to either the holes in the wall or the super-fancy restaurants where there are no cool people.
我不去那些又酷又时髦的餐馆。我要么去墙上的洞里,要么去那些没有酷人的超豪华餐厅。
I think the only reason people hold on to memories so tight is because memories are the only thing that don't change; when everybody else does.
我认为人们如此执着于记忆的唯一原因是因为记忆是唯一不变的东西;当其他人都这么做的时候。
What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work.
我担心的是,人们正在失去信心,失去活力,失去热情,而让他们投入工作的机会却是实实在在的。
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These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.
这些有钱人对当代音乐很感兴趣。他们想帮助传播它,让别人知道它。
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
来自一个没有鲜花的星球上的人会认为,我们一定是高兴得发疯了,才会有这样的事情发生在我们身上。
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
醉汉不会给清醒的人钱。他说他们只会吃它,买衣服,送孩子上学。
People will stare. Make it worth their while.
人们会盯着看。让他们觉得值得。
I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
我不喜欢和总是同意我的人多说话。用回声去卖弄风情,一会儿是有趣的,但很快就会厌倦的。
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
最好的管理者是这样的人:他有足够的判断力去挑选好人做他想做的事,并且有足够的自制力在他们做事的时候不去干涉他们。