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Person

And someday, when that person touches somebody else, maybe even way in the future, that rattlesnake energy might come humping up out of them by accident and hurt that next person too, even though they didn’t mean to, and even though the person didn’t deserve it.

总有一天,当那个人触碰了别人,甚至是在未来,那条响尾蛇的能量可能会意外地从他们身上冒出来,并伤害下一个人,即使他们不是故意的,即使那个人不值得。

There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn't see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn't hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much.

我年轻时对黑人有一种特殊的感情。不知何故,他们能够从我看不到他们享受的事物中获得快乐。我听到他们唱了很多,但我没有听到白人在棉花地里唱那么多。

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

我们称失去父亲的人为孤儿;一个失去妻子的鳏夫。但是,这个人知道失去朋友的巨大痛苦,我们用什么名字称呼他呢?在这里,每一种语言都是沉默的,在无能为力中保持着平静。

In every person we meet there's this little piece of God in them and that's who you talk to. And that's the only person that you allow to talk to you. When something else is speaking, you walk away from that. If it's not good, if it's not love, you walk away from it.

我们遇到的每一个人身上都有一小块上帝的影子,那就是你要与之交谈的人。那是你唯一允许和你说话的人。当别的东西在说话的时候,你就离开它。如果它不好,如果它不是爱,你会离开它。

My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you.

我的父母非常棒,非常活跃。我发现很难这么说,但我是一个很有爱心的人,我一直爱着我的朋友。从长远来看,这是值得的。我对其他人很感兴趣,如果你对他们感兴趣,他们也会对你感兴趣。

There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.

有一些关于音乐的东西鼓励人们想要更多地了解制作它的人,它是在哪里录制的,是哪一年录制的,他们在听什么,诸如此类的事情。有一种东西会引发这种强迫性行为。

There are two different types of leader. A person can either be like a thermometer or a thermostat. A thermometer will tell you what the temperature is. A thermostat will not only tell you what the temperature is, but it'll move you to the temperature you need to get to.

有两种不同类型的领导者。一个人可以是温度计,也可以是恒温器。温度计会告诉你温度是多少。恒温器不仅会告诉你温度是多少,还会把你移动到你需要的温度。

A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story.

很多人都有这样的策略,如果他们有一个很难回答的问题,他们会等到面试结束时再问,因为他们认为这个人会离开。但是他们必须意识到的是,如果这个人离开了,他们就有了一个非常成功的故事。

The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.

因此,这些长老的职责决定了人民的权力;因为代表是由别人选择以他们的名义做他们有权以他们自己的名义做的事;或者更确切地说,是行使他们为之行动的人内在的根本力量。

I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.

我想最后,当你出名的时候,人们喜欢把你的范围缩小到一些个性特征。我想我只是变成了一个野心勃勃的,说什么就说什么,令人生畏的人。这是我性格的一部分,但肯定不是全部。

It is fun being a strong person. You feel invincible like you can face anything that comes your way. But you know what sucks being one ? Actually, it is really a damn thing because when people know that you are strong, they think that it is okay to hurt you, over and over again.

做一个坚强的人很有趣。你觉得自己所向无敌,就像你能面对任何事情一样。但你知道什么最糟糕吗?事实上,这真的是一件该死的事情,因为当人们知道你很坚强的时候,他们认为伤害你是可以的,一次又一次。

I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.

我不擅长处理人际关系,也没有经历过很多长期的关系。我所知道的是,离开并继续前进——回到一种熟悉的自力更生和自主的感觉;这种感觉就像另一种人留在这里一样舒服和舒适。

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We had to be down early to get the best stuff for the pros we looked after and then get the rags that we were left ourselves for training. It seems very old school but it grounded me as a person and made me appreciate everything as a footballer, because all we got was a pair of boots.

为了给我们所照顾的职业球员买到最好的东西,我们不得不早早地下山,然后把剩下的衣服拿去训练。这看起来很老套,但它让我作为一个人脚踏实地,让我欣赏作为一个足球运动员的一切,因为我们得到的只是一双靴子。

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