More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad.

  • -- James Levine 詹姆斯·莱文

越来越多的夫妻正在进行这样的协商或讨论,但我仍然很惊讶,有这么多的夫妻没有这样做,而且在某种程度上,文化规范发挥了作用,他们想当然地认为应该由妈妈而不是爸爸来做家庭主妇。

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Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.

我们为什么要谈这个?为什么要谈判?很简单。如果你想要和平,把所有的先决条件都放在一边,坐到桌子对面,而不是画室里。

We live in a society today where these children can be wanted children. Even if you don't want to keep this child after you've had it, there's plenty of young couples out there, that want children.

我们今天生活在一个社会中,这些孩子可以被需要。即使你不想在生完孩子后再要孩子,还是有很多年轻夫妇想要孩子。

I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it; two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away - and it is the biggest kick of all.

我曾试图告诉人们,每一美元有三种回报:一种是成功的回报;二,当你拥有它的时候。当你把它送出去的时候,第三次踢它——这是最大的一脚。

I know a lot of actors who get a part and then they dissect it and they want to change it and they want to add stuff. I'm always amazed and so impressed by actors who do that.

我认识很多演员,他们得到一个角色,然后对它进行剖析,想要改变它,想要添加一些东西。我总是对这样做的演员感到惊讶和印象深刻。

If you have never been amazed by the very fact that you exist, you are squandering the greatest fact of all.

如果你从来没有对你的存在感到惊讶,那么你就是在浪费最伟大的事实。

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

如果更多的已婚夫妇像负债一样深陷爱河,这个世界将会变得更加美好。

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

我们不再要求得到那块土地,但我们将不经谈判就把它拿走。