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• Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.

  Hans Hofmann

  Spiritual, Artist, Expression

  "Hans Hofmann: With Selected Writings by the Artist". Book by William Chapin Seitz, p. 15, 1963.

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• In my own research when I'm working with equations, I never feel like I really understand what I'm doing if I'm solely relying on the mathematics for my understanding. I need to have a visual picture in my mind. I'm constantly translating from the math to some intuitive mind's-eye picture.

  Brian Greene

  Eye, Math, Understanding

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• I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.

  Jim Fowler

  Animal, Thinking, Talking

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• Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.

  Theophile Gautier

  Artist, Men, Doe

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• Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

  David Lynch

  Ideas, Cinema, Mediums

  Interview With Andy Battaglia, film.avclub.com. January 23, 2007.

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• Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability.

  Harvey Mackay

  Jobs, Curiosity, Attention

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• It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

  Danica McKellar

  Math, Thinking, People

  "Wonder Years star Danica McKellar is super-slender just months after giving birth... her secret? It's all in the maths". www.dailymail.co.uk. May 2, 2011.

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• Certain readers will read my book not because they are interested in Iraq, but because they read crime fiction. I did want to get beyond just speaking to other Middle East scholars, so I'm happy about that. But this was, nonetheless, a novel I wish I got to read in Arabic and translate.

  Elliott Colla

  Book, Wish, Crime

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'.

  Linus Torvalds

  Fashion, White, Design

  Interview with Scott Merrill, techcrunch.com. April 19, 2012.

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• V'lane: Are you busy tomorrow MacKayla ? Barrons: She's working on old texts with me. V'lane: Ah. Old texts. A banner day at the bookstore. Barrons: We're translating Kama Sutra...with interactive aids.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Bookstores, Tomorrow, Busy

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• Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Reality, Artist, People

  "Let Me Down Easy". Interview with Yazmany Arboleda, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2010.

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• When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Fate, Needs, Tongue

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.42, Editorial MAXTOR

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• As a teenager, my favourite rejection was, 'She looks too healthy,' which of course translates as, 'She needs to lose weight.'

  Christina Ricci

  Teenager, Rejection, Healthy

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• Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion.

  Miuccia Prada

  Fashion, Thinking, Vanity

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

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• I think that there is a sort of spiritual power that is translating into our bodies as we perform. Performers give, and giving is so important. It can heal. That is my experience, anyway.

  Yoko Ono

  Spiritual, Thinking, Giving

  "Yoko Ono at 80: 'I feel that I am starting a new life, a second life'" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2013.

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• Sarcasm doesn't translate in print at all.

  Megan Fox

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Print

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

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• Everyone wants a hug and kiss. It translates into any language.

  Georgette Mosbacher

  Best Love, Kissing, Hug

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• The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.

  Karl Rove

  Country, Team, Growth

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• Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.

  Laurie Anderson

  Reality, Special, Kind

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• I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn't have to translate.

  Maya Angelou

  Falling In Love, Doors, Laughing

  "No surrender" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2002.

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• I most certainly believe that when you're an athlete, that really translates to all sports. You just understand it, your body understands it, and your mind understands it. And you just - it just clicks. I've found that happening when I play other sports. I've seen it, like when I've hit the ball with other professional athletes, and you can see they're just learning so quickly. It's just something that's in their blood. So I think it was in my parents' blood and they understood.

  Venus Williams

  Sports, Believe, Athlete

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• I think the toughest thing for me to figure out, as an actor, was how to translate all those layers that are in there and that history that the writers have done such a great job at forming.

  Alycia Debnam Carey

  Jobs, Thinking, Actors

  "Alycia Debnam-Carey on ‘The 100′ Season 3 and ‘Fear the Walking Dead’". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 21, 2016.

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• One of my favorite tricks was taking a page and having the first student translate it from English into whatever language he or she was working on, and the next one would translate it back into English and then into the foreign language, and we'd go around the room and compare the two English versions at the end, and it would be amazing how much survived.

  Gregory Rabassa

  Two, Would Be, Pages

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Allow me to translate, Twitchtip said, not even bothering to move. "She said if you don't stop your incessant babble, that big rat sitting in the boat next to you will rip your head off.

  Suzanne Collins

  Rip, Moving, Sitting

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.244, Scholastic Inc.

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• Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.

  James Buchan

  Doe, Purpose, Warning

  "The role of snow" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2007.

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