I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

  • -- Steven Wright 史蒂文赖特

我打碎了一面镜子,倒霉了七年,但我的律师认为他能给我五年。

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If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities.

如果一家图书馆提供有关新政的互联网展览的唯一途径是聘请律师来清理每一幅图像和声音的权利,那么版权制度就会以一种前所未有的方式给创造力增加负担,因为没有任何手续。

My earliest attempts at writing were when I was seven. I would sit at the piano and transcribe the songs I heard on the radio. I'd change little things in the music and write different lyrics.

我最早的写作尝试是在我七岁的时候。我会坐在钢琴前,把我在收音机里听到的歌曲抄录下来。我会改变音乐中的一些小细节,写不同的歌词。

Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you're not mad when you see them, you're happy, and you get right back into it.

锻炼就像一个老朋友:你可能不能一直见到那个朋友,但当你看到他们的时候,你并不生气,你很开心,然后你就马上投入其中。

I'm trying to get hold of them... the trouble is a lot of the companies that recorded and produced the albums went bust, so I don't know where to get the masters.

我正试着联系他们…问题是很多录制和制作专辑的公司都破产了,所以我不知道去哪里找大师。

Let's make a statement to the airlines just to get their attention. We'll pick a week next year and we'll all agree not to go anywhere for seven days.

为了引起航空公司的注意,让我们向航空公司发表声明。明年我们选一个星期,我们都同意七天不去任何地方。

I want to be surprised by what people do, I don't want to work with people who need to be told what to do. I want people to show me what they've got.

我想对人们所做的事感到惊讶,我不想和那些需要别人告诉我该做什么的人一起工作。我想让人们向我展示他们所拥有的。

My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big.

我的脚跟我的外号一点关系也没有。可是,当人们老是说那汉子的脚粗,不一会儿,他们的脚就开始显得粗了。

What a holler would ensue if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce

如果人们不得不付给牧师结婚的钱和付给律师离婚的钱一样多,那会引起多大的骚动啊

I have to work at tunes to get them to come out. Sometimes I'll sit there for four or five hours and get absolutely nothing.

我得调音才能把它们调出来。有时我会在那里坐上四五个小时,什么也得不到。

All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.

我电影里所有的笑话,喜剧,他们都不是我,我只是试着对我们举起一面大镜子。

The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.

那些自以为无所不知的人,尤其让我们这些有这种想法的人恼火。

I was going to go to Macchu Picchu and then I just ended up working the whole year.

我本来打算去马丘比丘,结果却干了整整一年。

When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.

当我去钓鱼时,我想知道五英里之内没有人。

To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.

成为朋友意味着他们总是在那里,无论是好是坏。

I keep getting cast as this bad guy, and I don't know why.

我一直在演这个坏人,我不知道为什么。

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

只要有恐惧,你就会得到错误的数字。

No one can truly know what anyone thinks or feels.

没有人能真正了解别人的想法和感受。

A man who needs a mirror is looking for something.

一个需要镜子的人在寻找什么。