When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

  • -- Edmund Burke 埃德蒙伯克

当领导人选择让自己成为受欢迎程度的竞标者时,他们在国家建设中的才能将毫无用处。他们将成为奉承者,而不是立法者;人民的工具,而不是向导。

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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

当我走到生命的尽头,站在上帝面前时,我希望我不会留下一丁点儿才能,我会说,‘我用尽了你给我的一切’。

I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I did take three years off.

我想,因为我和我一样认真,人们接受了我成长为一个有资格的、合法的、成熟的人,而我确实休息了三年。

In digital world, sport provides opportunity to bring people together.

在数字世界中,体育提供了把人们聚集在一起的机会。

An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent.

一个女演员决不能失去她的自尊——没有自尊,她就没有才华。