I didn't want to make it a lifetime thing. I don't believe in statutory term limits, but people can limit themselves if they want to, and that's what I decided to do.

  • -- George J. Mitchell, Jr. 小乔治·J·米切尔

我不想让它成为一辈子的事情。我不相信法定期限的限制,但如果人们愿意,他们可以限制自己,这就是我决定做的。

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Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on.

每个人在一生中都会遇到一些事情。关系结束,人们死去,悲剧降临到每个人身上。所以每个人都有丰富的经验,你年龄越大,你就越需要利用这些经验。

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

生活是一件美好的事情,可以谈论,也可以在历史书中读到——但是当一个人不得不生活的时候,它是可怕的。

At the same time I was being given a Lifetime Achievement Grammy.

与此同时,我还获得了终身成就奖格莱美奖。

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

这是一件可怕的事情,看到和没有远见。