ALLEN: "Well, we are still in show business." BENNY: "Yes,and we thought you could book us."

VOA: special.2009.03.09

My parents thought I'd lost my mind to drop out of Stanford Business School to go join some company that made software.

我父母认为我从斯坦福商学院,辍学去一家软件公司工作根本是疯了。

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But along with this conceptual framework, provided by none other than Thomas Hobbs in England, who had lived through the English Civil War and thought that you shouldn't mess around with this rights business, you need some sort of big powerful monarch there-- but there was a sense inherent in all of this.

但与之同存的另一种观点,是英国最具代表性的托马斯·霍布斯提出的,他经历过英国内战,且认为君主不该滥用手中权力,你需要的是一个有权利的君主,但这其中有一些内在的概念

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George Lucas in fact said when we did an interview with him that he thought one of the reasons he was so comfortable when he got into the movie business because he already knew how to tell a story visually from having looked at Norman Rockwell's covers."

VOA: special.2010.09.20