A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人民
People
People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it's so scary - it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe.
人们非常害怕敞开心扉。你所要做的就是能够与他人建立联系。当你与他人交流时,你也与自己内心的某种东西交流。它让你感到快乐。然而,它是如此可怕——它让人们感到脆弱和不安全。
The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job.
那些让这个国家运转起来的人,那些还房贷的人,那些在经济衰退中奋起工作,努力不参与其中的人,他们不是敌人。他们就是雇用你的人。他们会给你一份工作。
People and squirrels are very different. Most people will not argue that. But I find that there is one situation in which they're very similar. And that is: when I am driving towards them in my car. Then they're kind of hard to tell apart - especially if the human is kind of hairy.
人和松鼠是非常不同的。大多数人不会这么认为。但我发现有一种情况它们非常相似。那就是:当我开着车向他们驶来的时候。然后它们就很难区分了——尤其是如果人类是多毛的。
People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.
把我的画挂在墙上的人是在把他们的价值观挂在墙上:信仰、家庭、家、更简单的生活方式、自然之美、宁静、安宁、和平、快乐、希望。他们召唤你进入这个世界,这个世界为你的晚间新闻广播提供了另一种选择。
In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.
五年后,我想成为一名母亲。我想安定下来,成家立业,肯定是越早越好。我也想完成我的第二张专辑,甚至第三张专辑。我希望有一种声音能萦绕在周围,让其他人受到启发,让人们知道那就是我。
No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks down like high school does. You have your social cliques, you have the people you get along with, the people you don't and the people you're ambivalent about. All of the dynamics are still here.
不管你在生活的哪个阶段,不管你和什么样的人在一起,这一切都会像高中一样崩溃。你有自己的社交圈,有和你相处融洽的人,有和你格格不入的人,还有让你矛盾的人。所有的动力都在这里。
In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.
在未来,当我们认真对待正确执行事情的时候,这件事就会变得很容易。如果我们发现这个方法不管用,我不打算踩着死尸去实现什么,因为我没有那种野心。我的抱负是帮助别人。
If they're paying money to have you on their team, you should want to ask and should want to know -- and are obligated to know. Everybody knows my abilities. Everybody knows what I stand for, people who know me. And if you get to know me, you really know my heart and that I'm real sincere.
如果他们花钱让你加入他们的团队,你应该问他们,应该想知道——而且有义务知道。每个人都知道我的能力。每个人都知道我代表什么,了解我的人。如果你了解我,你就会真正了解我的心,我是真诚的。
I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.
我会整天被赶出大楼,人们会当着我的面撕毁我的名片。这是一个令人羞愧的行业。但我知道我可以卖,我知道我想卖我创造的东西。我把裤袜的脚剪掉了,我知道我说到点子上了。这是它。
Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.
烹饪对于人们来说是慷慨和深情的一种极其重要的表达,而娱乐是一种既慷慨又富有创造力的方式。你在和别人分享你的生活。当然,这也是你想要得到认可和掌声的一种表达。这没什么错。
Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.
哦,我想有很多人今天在网上买卖,他们得到的信息,但当时间输入他们的信用卡他们三思而后行,因为他们不确定如何会走出去,这可能意味着什么。
It sounds kind of farfetched, yet I can't tell you how many people have had this syndrome... the 'Old Hag Syndrome.' Apparently, there's this little old lady who comes into your room at night, sits on your chest and tries to suffocate you. You can Google her - she'll pop up. She's out there.
这听起来有点牵强,但我不能告诉你有多少人有过这种症状……“老巫婆综合症”。“显然,有个小老太太晚上走进你的房间,坐在你的胸口上,想让你窒息。你可以告诉她——她会出现的。她在那里。
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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。
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
客人就像鱼一样,过了三天就开始发臭。
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。
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
坚持不懈的人从别人失败的地方开始成功。
I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story may be different but emotionally we are all the same.
我周游了世界,令我惊讶的一件事是我可以与人交流。我的故事可能不同,但在情感上我们都是一样的。
Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.
一般来说,被吸引到新闻业的人对自下而上发生的事情更感兴趣,而不是自上而下。