keep it real

高額賞金宝くじ「パワーボール」で、史上３番目となる１等賞金３億３７００万ドル （約２６４億円）の当選者として、ミシガン州に住むのドナルド・ローソンさんが名乗り出ました。
彼は大金持ちになったからといって、「自分を見失わないように」すると語りました。その英語はkeep it realでした。元々は黒人のスラングで、「自分に正直に、自分を見失わないように」などという意味が第一義ですが、文脈に応じていろいろな訳が可能です。Keep it real, man!（GP）

$337 million Powerball winner plans to keep it real

(CNN) -- Donald Lawson intends to do the typical lottery-winner stuff: Retire, take care of his family, travel, get a new place to live.

But the 44-year-old Michigan man insists his $337 million Powerball prize -- the third-largest in Powerball history, and seventh-largest jackpot in U.S. history -- won't change him.

"I'm a millionaire now, but I'll still go to McDonald's," Lawson told reporters Friday at the Michigan Lottery headquarters in Lansing, where he came forward to collect on the August 15 drawing. "I don't like filet mignon or lobster. I like the simple life, and that's what I want to continue to do."

Lawson, of Lapeer, was the sole winner of the August 15 prize. He chose the lump-sum cash option, which gives him $224.6 million, before tax, at once.
He said he quit his railroad engineer job after learning he won. He said he chose the winning numbers -- 6, 27, 46, 51, 56 with a powerball of 21 -- himself at a Sunoco gas station in Lapeer.

"I walked into the ... station, and usually there ain't nobody up there, but there was a long line. But something from above -- I do have to credit that -- told me to go over there and pick my own numbers. I didn't pick them -- my hand just went," Lawson said.

Lawson said his two children will now be set for college, and he told his close relatives to retire, "and they had no problem with that."

He said he plans to travel a lot, but for now, he's going to "go somewhere safe and think about (what to do) and go from there."

"This money won't last forever unless I use it right and budget it right. It's not a lot, $337 million," he joked, drawing laughter, before addressing the issue of taxes. "You all think it's tremendous amount, but I'm kind of pissed at Uncle Sam ... you know?"

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/31/us/michigan-powerball-winner/index.html?hpt=hp_t3