One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

  • -- Wallace Stevens 华莱士·史蒂文斯

当有这么多更重要的事情要做的时候,一个人不能把时间花在现代化上。

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To be in a position, at my age, where I am financially independent, I can help develop things, I can promote stuff that I believe in, I can say no a lot and spend time writing - that is a gift.

在我这个年龄,在经济上独立的情况下,我可以帮助开发东西,推广我相信的东西,我可以说很多不,花时间写作——这是一种天赋。

If you factor in not just who's doing what at home, but how much more time working fathers are spending on work outside the home, on average they spend two hours more per day outside the home.

如果你不仅考虑到谁在家做什么,还考虑到在职父亲在户外工作的时间增加了多少,他们平均每天在户外工作的时间增加了两个小时。

A society that has made "nostalgia" a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

一个把“怀旧”变成文化交流中有销路的商品的社会,很快否定了过去的生活在任何重要方面都比今天的生活更好的说法。

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.

真正重要的是意志的方向和坚定性,而智力和情感的重要性只在于它们对意志的贡献。

If you give yourself too much time, you kind of over-obsess about the music. It's not supposed to be like that.

如果你给自己太多的时间,你就会对音乐过分痴迷。不应该是那样的。

Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.

只要教皇和迪克西小鸡们反对你,你就完蛋了。