My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

  • -- John Adams 约翰·亚当斯

我的国家为我安排了一个最微不足道的职位,这个职位是人类的发明或想象力所构想出来的。

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I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot what's going on in a very simple way. I then watch them, their inventions as actors, approving or not approving what they're doing.

我通常不导演那种经典意义上的演员。相反,我试着在拍摄前用一种非常简单的方式提醒角色们发生了什么。然后我看着他们,看着他们作为演员的发明,看他们是否认可自己的行为。

A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations.

一个不容忽视的重要因素是技术,它是以改变整个生产基础和深刻影响社会关系的发明和发现为基础的。

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

大多数人从他们的生活中得到相当多的乐趣,但总的来说,生活是痛苦的,只有非常年轻或非常愚蠢的人才会这样想。

I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'

周围的东西太多了,我无法集中注意力。每当我去办公室的时候,我总是说,‘收拾一下。’

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

人们被要求把自己塑造成应该成为什么样的人,以完成自己的使命。

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

满足在于摆脱痛苦,这是生活的积极因素。

If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month.

如果你赢得了奥斯卡奖,你可以进入任何人的办公室一个月。

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

如果一个人不停止发问,他就不会成为真正的傻瓜。

The man who has no imagination, has no wings.

没有想象力的人没有翅膀。

Have two strings to your bow.

弓上有两根弦。