An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

-- Russell Baker 拉塞尔·贝克

一个受过教育的人是这样的人:他知道，事实往往是，信息至多是不完整的，而且往往是错误的、误导人的、虚构的、虚假的——完全是错误的。

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The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.

行为方式和语言的过渡状态不能经常被坚持，因为这影响了过程的两端，给艺术家在虚拟的生活中一个不确定的模型复制和不稳定的材料在工作。

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I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture.

我很震惊，女权主义这个词已经被诋毁到几乎被嘲笑的地步，我非常热情地认为，这个词需要重新估值，重新引入力量，并认识到这是一幅全球图景。

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I have learned how to breathe, to use my cords differently. I had been tilting my head in a way when I talked that wasn't good for my throat. I've been working on all of that, and it seems to be helping.

我已经学会了如何呼吸，如何以不同的方式使用我的声带。我说话的时候一直歪着头，这对我的喉咙不好。我一直在做这些事情，而且似乎很有帮助。

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What surprises me is when people give me their mobile number. The other day, someone on a bus asked if I swear. I said I try not to, but of course I'm just a normal person.

让我惊讶的是，当人们给我他们的手机号码。有一天，公车上有人问我敢不敢发誓。我说过我尽量不这么做，但我当然只是一个普通人。

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I am keeping with tradition today. After I learned of my Golden Globe nomination, I went to the dentist, so today, let's make it the orthodontist.

我今天遵循传统。在我得知自己获得金球奖提名后，我去看了牙医，所以今天，我们就选正畸医生吧。

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They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.

他们说普通人不能靠艺术谋生。但如果你告诉我有些事我做不到，那就是我必须做的。

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I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

我既不能选择我喜欢的人，也不能拒绝我不喜欢的人;活着的女儿的意志也会被死去的父亲的意志所约束。

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Well, I don't give it out very often, but I reject the notion that you have to be a practitioner to give good advice.

好吧，我不经常说出来，但我反对你必须是一个实践者才能给出好的建议的观点。

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Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.

每个人都必须对自己的行为负责——如果他们做错了什么，我相信应该为此付出代价。

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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.

我们应该寻求与欧洲的合作，而不是把欧洲划分为虚构的新和虚构的旧。

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The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

创造性的本质在于它的新颖性，因此我们没有判断它的标准。

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One to mislead the public, another to mislead the Cabinet, and the third to mislead itself.

一个误导公众，一个误导内阁，第三个误导自己。

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I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

我一直想成为一名农民。我们家有这样的传统。

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Apple has great marketing, among the best PR and marketing in the world.

苹果公司拥有强大的市场营销，是世界上最好的公关和市场营销公司之一。

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Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

新闻总是一门残缺不全的艺术。你会得到一些碎片。

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Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

税收只不过是一种用威胁手段索取钱财的复杂手段。

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I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

我从酒精中得到的比酒精从我身上得到的还要多。

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There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

没有什么比误导年轻人更不光彩的事了。

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Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.

那些自以为认识我的人只是缺乏信息。

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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.

疯狂的老人是我们调查信息的全部来源。

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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

没有哲学，历史对我来说总是死气沉沉，哑口无言。

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As it turns out, what looks like science sometimes is not.

事实证明，看起来像科学的东西有时并不是。

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Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places.

有时候错误的选择会把我们带到正确的地方。

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I had this almost Dickensian look. I was quite fragile.

我有一副狄更斯式的表情。我很脆弱。

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I'm so alone it's like being dead but still conscious.

我是如此孤独，就像死了一样，但仍然清醒。

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Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

虚幻的快乐往往比真正的悲伤更有价值。

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I'm OK being the veteran, but I'm still just a kid.

我可以当老兵，但我还是个孩子。

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Gratitude turns what we have into enough.

感恩使我们拥有的变得足够。

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A hair divides what is false and true.

一根头发可以区分真假。

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Ring out the false, ring in the true.

敲出虚伪，敲入真实。

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Most of my ideas just come out funny.

我的大部分想法都很有趣。

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I'm very claustrophobic.

我很有幽闭恐惧症。

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Bad's the best of us.

坏的是我们中最好的。

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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

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