It will be of little avail to the people if the laws are so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

  • -- James Madison Jr 詹姆斯·麦迪逊

如果法律过于繁冗,无法阅读,或者过于杂乱无章,无法理解,那对人民就没有什么帮助。

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I was finding it very difficult to find a label that understood what I wanted to do and really believed that people wanted to hear something honest and a little bit different. So, I did feel a bit like a clown. You're knocking on everyone's door trying to get them to believe what you're doing.

我发现很难找到一个品牌能理解我想做什么,并真正相信人们想听到一些诚实的、有点不同的东西。所以,我觉得自己有点像个小丑。你在敲每个人的门,试图让他们相信你在做什么。

I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable.

我看着自己,我看到一个西班牙人试图被说英语的观众所理解,并投入了大量的精力,而不是自由地表达自己,感到舒服。

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same., so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

生活的法则是如此残酷而公正,一个人必须成长,否则就得为保持不变付出更多。一个人必须成长,否则就得为保持不变付出更多的代价。

Give us kinder laws to bring us back when we're a-going wrong and don't set Jail, Jail, Jail afore us everywhere we turn.

当我们犯错的时候,给我们更仁慈的法律把我们带回来,不要把监狱,监狱,监狱放在我们面前,无论我们走到哪里。