In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.

  • -- Charles Edison 查尔斯·爱迪生

鉴于我们的公开承诺,我们的公职人员再也不能在公众面前只承诺进行选举改革。承诺的时代已经过去。

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It was funny actually because that was still during the time we were dating. He would get all these calls because supposedly before we broke up, we had already broken up in the trades, in the rags or whatever.

其实很有趣,因为那还是我们约会的时候。他会接到所有这些电话,因为据说在我们分手之前,我们已经在交易中分手了,在破衣烂衫中分手了。

I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.

我想我们都希望能抹去生活中一些黑暗的时光。但是所有的生活经历,好的和坏的都造就了你。抹去生活中的任何经历都将是一个巨大的错误。

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

每一个艺术家的目标都是通过人为的手段来捕捉运动,也就是生命,并把它固定住,这样一百年后,当一个陌生人看到它时,它又动了起来,因为这就是生命。

If it didn't happen in your life before, then you're not paying attention you don't think it's possible. But almost all important events never happen in your life before.

如果这在你的生活中没有发生过,那么你就没有集中注意力,你认为这是不可能的。但几乎所有重要的事情在你的生活中从未发生过。

When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again.

当你是一个平民,你想要成功,当你成功了,你想再次成为一个平民。

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

我想成为一名特工和宇航员,最好是同时做。