The dead are not powerless. Dead, is not powerless.
死者并非无力。死亡，并非无力。
The energy industry is not just about extracting resources; it's about powering progress and improving lives.
我不追逐成功，我定义成功。
"Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there."
It's probably as unlikely that you would nowadays become as rich and famous as Bill Gates, as it was unlikely in the17th century that you would accede to the ranks of the French aristocracy. But the point is, it doesn't feel that way. It's made to feel, by magazines and other media outlets, that if you've got energy, a few bright ideas about technology, a garage -- you, too, could start a major thing.
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.