I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my taste was far greater than my ability.

  • -- Mike Stoller 斯托勒

我对自己的钢琴演奏一向很挑剔。小时候,我想成为一名爵士音乐家,但我的品味远远超过了我的能力。

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I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.

我尊重那些充满激情的人。我做的事。但当一个人是法官时,他们不应该把这个带到法官席上。并不是真正的激情,除非在极少数情况下,能很好地服务于板凳席。而是一种理解法律并遵循法律的能力。

If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes.

如果由于地主的租金下降而使对住宅商品的需求减少,那么,由于商业阶级日益富裕,对住宅商品的需求就会大大增加。

Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere if they are serious about this music... There is no valid motivation for it other than love - outlaw motivation in a profit-motivated society.

如果爵士音乐家对这种音乐是认真的,他们在某些地方就会有一些不法之徒。在一个以营利为目的的社会里,除了爱的非法动机外,没有其他有效的动机。

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

复仇……就像一块滚动的石头,当一个人被迫上山时,它会以更大的力量返回到他身上,并折断那些肌肉使它运动的骨头。

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

爱是一种能力和意愿,让你关心的人成为他们为自己选择的人,而不是坚持让他们满足你。

Frank liked me because I went nuts on the piano using feet, head, whatever I could find to bang on the piano.

弗兰克喜欢我,因为我用脚、头和任何我能找到的东西在钢琴上敲得发疯。