In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

  • -- Adam Ferguson 亚当·弗格森

在每一个商业国家,尽管自命享有平等权利,但少数人的提高必然会使多数人感到沮丧。

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Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.

抗抑郁药很好,但它是一种临床用药,真的。有时候你必须被击倒,才能停下来;当你处于这种状态时,你想做的就是睡觉,休息你的身体和大脑。

People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.

人们对一首歌充满激情。我的经验是,如果你放一些电台糖果,一些商业的东西,它不卖唱片。

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

对于一个优越的种族,作为人类对超凡圣洁和美德的自命不凡,似乎……荒谬。

It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.

很难判断什么会取得商业上的成功,什么不会。

Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.

疾病总是使我更接近一种优雅的状态。