The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

  • -- Terry Pratchett 泰瑞·普莱契

当然,思想开放的问题在于,人们会坚持走过去,并试图把东西放进去。

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The trouble with the jokes is that once they're written, I know how they're supposed to work, and all I can do is not hit them. I'm more comfortable improvising. If I have just two or three ideas and I know how the character feels, what the character wants, everything in between is like trapeze work.

这些笑话的问题在于,一旦写好了,我就知道该怎么写了,而我所能做的就是不打击他们。我更喜欢即兴发挥。如果我只有两三个想法,而且我知道角色的感受,角色想要什么,那么这两者之间的一切就像空中飞人一样。

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?

当你做了错事,明知是错的时候,你就是环境的产物。因此,选择最能让你朝着目标前进的环境。从环境的角度分析你的生活。你周围的事物是帮助你走向成功,还是阻碍你走向成功?

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

走不安全、独立的思想者之路。把你的想法暴露在争论的危险中。说出你的想法,不要害怕被贴上“疯子”的标签,而要害怕从众的污名。在你认为重要的问题上,挺身而出,不惜任何代价。

It doesn't matter if you've failed, if you've been beaten. All that really matter is if you get back up and try again. Because winning is fun, but winning when nobody thought you would is just awesome.

你是否失败了并不重要,你是否被打败了。真正重要的是你能否站起来再试一次。因为赢球很有趣,但没人想到你会赢球的时候赢球真的很棒。

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

在我看来,没有朋友的生活就像为了早上喝咖啡而挤牛奶。这是一大堆麻烦,而且在你得到它之后就不值得了。

I like to look at scenarios and see how people interact with each other. That's why I'm an actor because I try to recreate that. Since our daughter joined us the spectrum has widened.

我喜欢看场景,看看人们是如何相互影响的。这就是为什么我是一名演员,因为我试着去重现那种感觉。自从我们的女儿加入我们以来,这个范围扩大了。

Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

有些人就像手推车;只有在被推的时候才有用,而且很容易心烦意乱。当对方肯定地点点头,但什么也没说时,就是停止说话的时候。

I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.

我觉得总有什么东西试图把我们拉回到睡眠中,在所有吸引我们的享乐主义快乐中都有这种诱人的特质。

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.

我不能满足于把我所有的想象力都用在音乐上,尤其是当音乐不再像过去那样被当作一种艺术形式来欣赏的时候。

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.

人们并不像政客们想的那么愚蠢。我们中越来越多的人对投票的“公民义务”一笑置之,拒绝扮演强制选民的角色。

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

当我年轻的时候,我发现我所做的十件事中有九件是失败的。我不想失败,所以我做了十倍的工作。

She had in mind a different kind of looking person, because his appearance is not at all like mine.

她心里想的是另一种模样的人,因为他的样子一点也不像我。

Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well.

都柏林是个好地方。问题是,你工作很努力,在都柏林你也很努力。

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.

绰号能粘住人,而最可笑的绰号却最能粘住人。

I have a magpie mind. I like anything that glitters.

我有喜鹊一样的头脑。我喜欢任何闪光的东西。

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

最聪明的头脑也有东西要学。