A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人民
People
When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people.
当我看着人群时，我看到了年轻人和老年人，黑人和白人——我能和这么多不同类型的人交流真是太神奇了。
Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.
我的一部分可能比人们意识到的更保守。我喜欢我的老式弦乐四重奏，我不喜欢为了迷幻而迷幻的音乐。
I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.
我进入这个行业是为了钱，而艺术就是从中成长起来的。如果人们对那句话大失所望，我也没办法。这是事实。
Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow.
大多数人擅长太多的事情。当你说某人很专注时，通常你的意思是他们很狭隘。
Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.
诗歌要求人们要有价值观，形成观点，除了赚钱和工作上的成功，还要关心其他的一些经验。
I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.
我认为，人们需要有勇气坚持自己的信念，而不是试图愚弄人们，让他们认为自己一夜之间就改变了。
People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.
人们指责我支持全球化。这相当于指责我赞成早晨太阳升起。
Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.
找到那些从读书中获得巨大乐趣的人是一种越来越不寻常的经历，所以作家们非常想被倾听。
We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
那时我们没有电视，很多人甚至没有收音机。晚上，妈妈会给爸爸和我大声朗读。
People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
人们过多地关注负面的东西，关注错误的东西。为什么不试着去看到积极的东西，去触摸它们，让它们开花呢?
I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am.
我想很多人认为我父母的去世是我写这些悲伤歌曲的原因，但事实并非如此。那些歌可能就是我。
It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.
不管有一百万人告诉你你不能做什么，还是有一千万人告诉你不能做什么。如果你从神那里得到一个“是”，那就是你所需要的。
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People don’t buy what you do; people buy why you do it.
人们不会买你的东西;人们相信你这样做的原因。
Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.
死亡过去常常在生命的壮年宣布它自己，但现在人们拖得太久了，有时我们似乎到了不得不宣布死亡的时候。就好像一个人死的时候需要一种特殊的力量，而不是最终的弱点。
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 often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily.
人们常说动力不会持久。洗澡也不行。这就是我们每天推荐它的原因。
If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
如果自由意味着什么，那就是告诉人们他们不想听的话的权利。
I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general.
我对约会游戏一无所知。我不知道如何和一个特定的人交谈并建立联系。我只是认为你必须一个人一个人地去，尽可能地与人相处。