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I like to do little obsessed losers, or people who are in over their head, or people who are trying to figure stuff out, or guys whose girlfriends leave them and they don't quite get it. Guys who just don't quite get it.
我喜欢做一些痴迷于失败的人,或者是那些头脑不清的人,或者是那些想把事情弄清楚的人,或者是那些女朋友离他们而去,而他们却不太明白的人。那些不太懂的人。
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
因为生命的意义因人而异,因日而异,因时而异。因此,重要的不是生活的一般意义,而是一个人在某一特定时刻的生活的具体意义。
When you're a child you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.
当你还是个孩子的时候,你很容易就能适应任何环境。你甚至开始像周围的人一样说话。直到我开始真正感觉自己像个演员之前,我都没有意识到自己是如此擅长表演。
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。
People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly.
人们从一天中抽出时间,花钱来听音乐会。而且这是爵士音乐——对他们来说并不容易理解。我不想让他们觉得我对他们的存在太在意。
Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.
污秽的……我认为很多傻瓜这么做是因为他们想不出他们想说什么,他们感到沮丧。很多聪明的人这样做是为了假装他们不是很聪明——只是想成为其中的一个男孩。
In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.
就法律问题而言,在两个人之间建立一个叫做婚姻的合同,允许他们在法律的保护下生活在一起,在我看来,这是我们在这个国家应该采取的方式。
When you see a crowd of people jumping up and down at a pop concert, all gloriously in the moment, I don't think you'll ever see a comedian there. They'll all be standing at the sides, looking at how it all fits together.
当你看到一群人在一场流行音乐会上跳上跳下,所有的人都沉浸在那一刻的喜悦之中,我想你永远不会在那里看到喜剧演员。他们都站在旁边,看着这一切是如何组合在一起的。
If I said to most of the people who auditioned, 'Good job, awesome, well done,' it would have made me actually look and feel ridiculous. It's quite obvious most of the people who turned up for this audition were hopeless.
如果我对大多数参加试镜的人说,“干得好,棒极了,做得好”,那实际上会让我看起来和感觉很可笑。很明显,大多数来参加这次试镜的人都没有希望了。
One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
现代的悲剧之一是,人们开始相信某人过去说过的一些话,可能是为了说明或挑衅的目的,实际上代表了那个人当时的信仰。
There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game.
有些人自称是天生的厨师,他们从来不按菜谱做,也从来不称任何东西。我所能说的就是他们对吃的东西不太挑剔。对我来说,烹饪是一门精确的艺术,而不是一些随意的游戏。
The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on.
人们给自己施加的压力和两队之间的竞争更加明显。我认为这是一件好事。只要这种竞争仍然存在于竞争的精神之中,它只会激励每个人前进。
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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。
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。
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。
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。
I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
我倾向于看到人与人之间的相似之处,而不是不同点。
I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.
我确实认为提高意识的尝试已经成功。人们现在非常关注性别问题。