Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

  • -- Mark Twain 马克·吐温

首先获得事实,然后你可以随意歪曲它们。

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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

所以人们认为我一直在谎报年龄?是记录错了。我从来没有告诉过任何人我有多大。他们一问我,我就说:‘这不关你的事。所以这意味着我从来没有谎报过自己的年龄。现在这是真的!

Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on.

因为在第一年我取得了很大的成功,让所有人都为之震惊,第二年我回来的时候觉得这很容易,没有像前一年那样接近赛季。这是一个警钟。生活就这样继续着。

The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.

科学的事实是足够真实的,科学家使用的技术也是如此,基于它们的技术也是如此。但是,支配传统科学思维的信仰体系是一种信仰行为。

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

你是受过教育的。你的证书就是你的学位。你可以把它看作通往美好生活的门票。让我请你想出一个替代方案。把它看作是你改变世界的门票。

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

我认为每个人都应该上大学,拿到学位,然后做六个月的酒保和六个月的出租车司机。这样他们才会真正受到教育。

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

以好奇心为主要动力的生物更喜欢积累事实,而不是偶尔停下来反思这些事实。

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

人们从一个野心上升到另一个野心:首先,他们寻求保护自己不受攻击,然后他们攻击别人。

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

当我创作艺术时,我想到它与他人联系的能力,把他们带入这个过程。

My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.

我的业务问题就是——业务——我像处理业务一样处理它们。

I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I'll be satisfied.

我只是希望我能得到另一个最好的个人。如果我能做到,我就会很满意。

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

小心得到你喜欢的,否则你将被迫喜欢你得到的。

I aim to please. I'm nothing if not a vaudevillian.

我的目的是取悦别人。我是个杂耍演员。

He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.

第一个吃牡蛎的人是一个勇敢的人。

The right can distort anything it wants.

右派可以歪曲任何它想要的东西。