"I have no talent. I really don't. No one would have picked me to go into showbiz. I don't have any talent. I'm not an entertainer and yet I have made my living in this industry. It's a fluke."
– TV host Jerry Springer comments on his career.
“我没有天赋,真的没有。没人会挑选我进入娱乐圈,我没有任何天赋。我不是艺人,可我却在这行谋生。这是个侥幸的成功。”
——美国著名脱口秀主持人杰瑞•斯普林格就他的事业说道。
"Look, I think all women on some level just want to rage against the machine. There are too many movies out there that don't empower women, movies in which their only way of being happy is finding a man."
– Jennifer Aniston discussing her choice of movie roles. She also called her relationship with ex-husband Brad Pitt and his new partner Angelina Jolie "an insane Bermuda Triangle."
“看,我认为所有的女人在一定程度上只想暴力反抗体制。有太多隐意不要授予女人权利的电影,这些电影中的女人让自己幸福的唯一办法就是找个男人。”
——詹妮弗•安妮斯顿在谈论她对电影角色的选择时说道。她还将自己与前夫布拉德•皮特和他的新伴侣安吉莉娜•朱莉之间的关系称为“荒唐的百慕大三角洲”。
"I feel going into a shop and buying a fur coat would be an act of weakness, but if I could go out into the woods and kill a bear myself, I would then wear it proudly as a trophy."
– British TV cook Nigella Lawson on wearing fur. Her comments sparked outrage from animal rights protestors.
“我认为去商店买一件皮大衣是种懦弱的行为,但是如果我可以进入森林自己杀死一只熊的话,我会把熊皮当成战利品骄傲地穿在身上。”
——英国美食节目厨师奈洁拉•罗森就穿皮大衣说道。她的言论引起了动物权益保护者的愤怒。
"All I can report is it is a size 10."
" That's what people do in a free society, draw attention to themselves."
—Bush joked after an Iraqi Journalist Hurls Shoes at him at a news conference on December 14th in Baghdad. He was not hit.
“我能报告大家的就是,这双鞋子是10码的。”
“在自由社会里,人们就是这么做的,为了吸引大家的注意力。”
——美国总统布什12月14日在伊拉克首都巴格达出席记者招待会时遭到一名记者扔鞋袭击后打趣称。他躲过了袭击。
"Climate change scientists tell us that there's a fifty percent chance the world will warm by 3 degrees in the next century. Now, that doesn't sound like much. But that's the difference between the last Ice Age and the present day! Is this really the world we want our children and grandchildren to live in? "
– Chinese-American Nobel Prize winner Steven Chu, whom Barack Obama has just appointed head of the US Department of Energy.
“气候变化科学家告诉我们到下个世纪有50%的可能性全球将升温3度。现在听起来那个数字不算太大。但那是最后一个冰河世纪与当今的区别!这真是我们希望子孙后代居住的世界吗?”
——美籍华裔诺贝尔奖获得者朱棣文说道,他刚被奥巴马任命为美国能源部长。