There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men; true nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

  • -- Ernest Hemingway 欧内斯特·海明威

比别人优越并不高贵;真正的高贵在于超越过去的自己。

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At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business knows: Up for singers, down for comics. The people want to idealize a singer. They want to feel superior to a comic. You're trying to make them laugh. They can't laugh at someone they're looking up to.

在撒哈拉沙漠,座位都是倾斜的,大多数观众都低头看着舞台。这个行业的每个人都知道:对歌手有利,对漫画不利。人们想把歌手理想化。他们想要比喜剧演员更有优越感。你只是想逗他们笑。他们不能嘲笑他们敬仰的人。

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

春天真正的预兆不是番红花或燕子返回卡皮斯特拉诺,而是蝙蝠击球的声音。

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

一个真正的领导者必须有一个真正的开放政策,这样他的人民才不会因为任何原因害怕接近他。

True nobility isn't about being better than someone else. It's about being better than you used to be.

真正的高贵不是比别人更好。而是要比过去做得更好。

Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car.

男人比女人优越,原因之一是他们可以在超速行驶的汽车上撒尿。

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

对高尚品格的信任胜过对誓言的信任。