Lost In Translation Quotes

• The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.

  Stephanie Perkins

  Life, Happiness, I Hate You

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• It's the most terrifying day of your life, the day the first one is born. Your life, as you know it, is gone. Never to return. But they learn how to walk, and they learn how to talk, and you want to be with them. And they turn out to be the most delightful people you'll ever meet in your life.

  Bill Murray

  Love, Inspiring, Dream

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• What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and world destruction?

  James Patterson

  World Destruction, Peace Love, World

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• The oldest cliché in the world is about "what's lost in translation," but you don't very often read much intelligent about what's gained by translation, and the answer is everything. Our language is a compendium of translation.

  Sam Hamill

  Intelligent, Answers, World

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.

  Robert Frost

  Mean, Littles, Lost

  "Robert Frost: A Backward Look". Book by Louis Untermeyer, January 1, 1964.

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• Government exists to create and preserve conditions in which people can translate their ideas into practical reality. In the best of times, much is lost in translation. But we try.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Reality, Government, Ideas

  Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford (1979). “The Presidential Campaign 1976: Jimmy Carter. 2 v”

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• I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

  Laura Marling

  Song, Writing, Sometimes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Poetry is that which is lost in translation.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Lost, Poetry Is, Translations

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• Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love

  Erich Segal

  May, Lost, Translations

  Erich Segal (2014). “The Class”, p.198, Bantam

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• When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.

  Etgar Keret

  Book, Character, Unique

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• I'd love to become like Bill Murray, who was so funny on 'Saturday Night Live' and has gone on to do some of the landmark comedies people like. And then to add this whole other phase to his career with 'Lost in Translation' and 'Rushmore.' I always felt to be able to have something similar to that would be great.

  Will Ferrell

  Night, Careers, People

  "A chat with Will Ferrell". Interview with Stephanie Snipes, www.cnn.com. November 7, 2003.

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• Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

  Robert Frost

  Lost, Interpretation, Poetry Is

  Quoted in Louis Untermeyer, Robert Frost: A Backward Look (1964)

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• "Lost in Translation" by Sofia Coppola. It's a masterpiece. I laughed a lot but was also overwhelmed by the story - a rare combination.

  Emmanuelle Bercot

  Stories, Overwhelmed, Lost

  "Emmanuelle Bercot on Portraying the Juvenile Justice System in Cannes 2015 Opener ‘Standing Tall’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. March 29, 2016.

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• One of the producers, Wonjo, was an amazing interpreter. I don't think we really knew how it was going to work at the beginning. Yet it was something that a couple of days into it seemed so seamless and it wasn't something that we noticed or thought about. A couple of times I cornered him and forced him to speak English but we didn't speak much English at all. That said, I don't think anything was ever lost in translation. It was all very easy.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Couple, Thinking, Speak English

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.

  Pharrell Williams

  Team, Speak English, Ideas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are stories that are by and for Latin Americans, where a certain amount of cultural fluency is expected, where we can delight in the details, the humor, the particularities of speech, of dialects. Something is always lost in translation; we know instinctively that this is the case. A Radio Ambulante story looks at Latin America from the inside.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Latin, America, Radio

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately, to the notion that something can also be gained.

  Salman Rushdie

  Men, World, Lost

  Salman Rushdie (2017). “Home: Vintage Minis”, p.32, Random House

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• I'm not a statistician, but it doesn't take a genious to work out that 100 million children being denied an education is ridiculous. There is nothing lost in translation here, it's obvious that's wrong.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Education, Children, Work Out

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• Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of a remarkable contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most extensive conquests. In this book we find the saddest and poorest form of theism. Much may be lost in translation, but I have not been able to discover in it one single idea of value.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  War, Book, Years

  "The World as Will and Representation" by Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by E. Payne, Vol. II, Ch. XVII, 1958.

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• I love working with the actors eye-to-eye. I think something gets lost in translation, not only through a monitor, but when you leave the area where the actual scene is taking place.

  Drew Barrymore

  Eye, Thinking, Actors

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. October 1, 2009.

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• The subtle differences in language and humor that get lost in translation, for example, make it almost impossible for big companies to do something that will appeal at home and abroad.

  Larry Gelbart

  Home, Differences, Example

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The magic gets lost in translation.

  Richard Roeper

  Magic, Lost, Translations

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• I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.

  Beck

  Mp3, Sound, Lost

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2012.

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