Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

  • -- Evan Esar 埃文·伊萨尔

统计学家的定义:一个人相信数据不会说谎,但他承认,在分析中,有些数据也站不住脚。

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With roasting, you've really got to bring your A-game. I hate to admit it, but I probably think and obsess more about the roasts than my own series. Because there's so much attention focused on the roasts. It's like the 'Super Bowl' of comedy. Everybody is going to talk about it. Forever.

烤得这么好,你真得拿出你的拿手好戏来。我不想承认这一点,但我可能更关心烘焙而不是我自己的系列。因为很多注意力都集中在烤肉上。这就像喜剧的“超级碗”。每个人都会谈论它。直到永远。

There's a definition of narcissism that when a parent is narcissistic, instead of the child seeing himself reflected in the mother's face and the mother's joy, the child of the narcissistic parent feels like, 'What can I do to make her okay, to make her happy?'

自恋有一个定义,当父母自恋时,孩子看到的不是母亲脸上的表情和母亲的喜悦,而是自恋父母的孩子觉得,‘我能做些什么让她好起来,让她开心?’

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.

一个孩子也永远无法理解这样一个事实:同样是这位母亲,她做饭做得那么好,那么关心他的咳嗽,那么慈祥地帮助他做作业,在某些情况下,她对他的感情不过是隐藏在他内心世界的一堵墙。

I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun.

我不认为哀叹世界现状有什么意义,除非你能想出什么办法来改善它。否则,就不要写书了;去找一个热带岛屿,躺在阳光下。

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.

在实验结束后打电话给统计学家,可能仅仅是让他做一个尸检:他或许能够说出实验的死因。

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

因为在人类变化和进步的伟大空间里,有一段短暂的时间,某些人类的普遍目标在他身上得到了令人满意的体现。

I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.

我相信舞蹈传达人类最深刻、最高、最真实的精神思想和情感,远胜于语言、文字。

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

我告诉你,批评家们的创造性永无止境。因为他们不会写小说,所以他们把自己的冲动投入到对工作的分析中。

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

一个没有受过教育的人的生命就像一条狗的尾巴,既不能盖住它的尾巴,也不能保护它免受昆虫的叮咬一样毫无用处。

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

我们不关心非常贫困的人。它们是不可想象的,只有统计学家或诗人才能接近它们。

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.

我读了你写的这些备忘录,你是否有这样的印象?我甚至都举不起来。

Smith and Carlos aside, I object to using the Olympic awards stand to make a political statement.

撇开史密斯和卡洛斯不谈,我反对利用奥林匹克奖来发表政治声明。

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

你可能会认为河流会倒流,就像任何生来就满足于被囚禁的人一样。

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

如果你在字典里查新闻的定义,它不是你在电视上看到的。

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

每个孩子都是艺术家。问题是一旦我们长大了,如何保持艺术家的身份。

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

只要一个人坚持走自己的路,一切似乎都在他的路上。

I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values.

那时,我在数字的世界里如鱼得水,而不是在价值的世界里。

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

如果我们有勇气去追求,我们所有的梦想都可以实现。

OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head.

好吧,老板,我不介意洗牌,但我不会抓我的头。

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

我查了一下我的家谱,发现我是树液。

Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

有些人被迫成为伟人,但不是最近。

The only way to get under me is to get over yourself.

让我生气的唯一方法就是忘掉你自己。

It's important to stand up for what you believe in.

坚持你的信仰是很重要的。

I believe in me more than anything in this world.

在这个世界上,我最相信自己。

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

你知道,我的信仰是承认一些怀疑的。

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

爱情会把大象从钥匙孔里拉出来。

You either are a good director or you're not.

你要么是个好导演,要么不是。

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

艺术不是剽窃就是革命。

It takes good memory to keep up a lie.

说谎需要良好的记忆力。

Also, I've already won all the awards.

而且,我已经赢得了所有的奖项。

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

真理要经过太多的分析。