The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

  • -- Dean Acheson 迪安·艾奇逊

公众人物最大的堕落者是自我。照镜子会分散人们对问题的注意力。

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Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

人是例外,不管他是什么。他若不是神的形像,便是尘垢的病。如果神的存在不是真的坠落了,那么我们只能说其中的一只动物完全从它的头上掉了下来。

Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.

雄心壮志是成为这个星球上跑得最快的人,成为第一个到达南极的人,这是对雄心壮志的一种荒唐的曲解。这是一次自我之旅,我不是在自我之旅。我没有野心,我有远见。

Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.

我们的责任是吸引你,无论我们要求你注意多久。也就是说,从伟大的,你会说,沉重的问题中可以得到巨大的戏剧性。

I know so few people who actually give music their undivided attention, so I've been trying to just park myself on the couch between the speakers and listen.

据我所知,真正全身心投入音乐的人很少,所以我一直试着把自己放在两个扬声器之间的沙发上听音乐。

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

我宁愿选择可能成为我丈夫的人,也不愿选择富有的人;我要一个没钱的男人,不要一个没钱的男人。

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

那些只崇拜自己的人会有一种光滑、光亮的外表——就像纪念碑一样。真可惜他们这么快就走了。