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• I like to say, Chop sueys the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another, because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means tsap sui, which, if you translate back, means odds and ends.

  Jennifer Lee

  Mean, Odds, Chinese

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• There is a theorem that colloquially translates, You cannot comb the hair on a bowling ball. ... Clearly, none of these mathematicians had Afros, because to comb an Afro is to pick it straight away from the scalp. If bowling balls had Afros, then yes, they could be combed without violation of mathematical theorems.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Hair, Balls

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• All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Tasks, Impossible, Accomplish

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• All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one another, may give an increasingly faithful picture of the poem they translate, yet they will never give the inner meaning of the original.

  Henri Bergson

  Faith, Giving, Poetry

  Henri Bergson (1961). “Introduction to metaphysics”

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• Interestingly, I never thought Id do an adaptation. Ive also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is wrong. I never really felt that books fitted into film. Generally people are disappointed, arent they?

  Andrea Arnold

  Book, Thinking, People

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• The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.

  Placido Domingo

  Emotional, Voice, Worry

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• Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience.

  George Muller

  Scripture, Knowledge Of God, Obedience

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• The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and elaborating and shaping the image into the finished work. By giving it shape, the artist translates it into the language of the present and so makes it possible for us to find our way back to the deepest springs of life.

  Carl Jung

  Spring, Artist, Giving

  Carl Gustav Jung (1966). “The Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature”, Routledge

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• Learning is really about translating knowing what to do into doing what we know.

  John G. Miller

  Learning, Knowing, Knows

  John G. Miller (2001). “QBQ!: The Question Behind the Question”

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• This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, World, Tongue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• Love involves more than just feelings. It is also a way of behaving. When Sandy said, "My parents don't know how to love me," she was saying that they don't know how to behave in loving ways. If you were to ask Sandy's parents, or almost any other toxic parents, if they love their children, most of them would answer emphatically that they do. Yet, sadly, most of their children have always felt unloved. What toxic parents call "love" rarely translates into nourishing, comforting behavior.

  Susan Forward

  Children, Healing, Parent

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• whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

  Agnes Repplier

  Dog, Distance, Cat

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• Sport teaches you so much, and you can translate that to other parts of life. But it's definitely a lot of dedication, not just for, you know, myself or the children, but the parents, the family finances, the money that you could be putting toward retirement you're using to buy tennis shoes and restring rackets and tennis lessons. So if you don't make it, then you may never retire. It's definitely a lot of risk.

  Venus Williams

  Sports, Retirement, Children

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• In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

  Frank Ocean

  Art, Greatness, People

  "Frank Ocean: 'I told y'all my album would be the best!'" by Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2012.

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• Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.

  Josh Peck

  Art, Real, Sadness

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• There are dozens of ways of failing to make money. It is one thing to fail to make money because your single talent happens to be a flair amounting to genius for translating the plays of Aristophanes. It is quite another thing to fail to make money because you are black, or a child, or a woman.

  Margaret Halsey

  Children, Play, Black

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now want to translate into clothes.

  Jean Pigozzi

  Art, Color, Years

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• Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities.

  Maurice Strong

  Past, Opportunity, Practice

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• Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.

  Lucille Clifton

  Intelligence, Intuition, Doe

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• I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

  Ariel Rechtshaid

  Ideas, I Realized, Studios

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• My father's motto has always been 'Room in the heart, room in the house.' As charming as this sounds, it translates into a long line for the bathroom and extra loads of laundry for my mother.

  Firoozeh Dumas

  Mother, Father, Heart

  Firoozeh Dumas (2007). “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America”, p.25, Random House

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• I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.

  Dana Fox

  Trying, Next, Tone

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• All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of the black-and-white text that's there in the script.

  Joe Johnston

  Real, Character, Black And White

  "'Captain America' director: 'This movie is going to surprise some people'". Interview with Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. January 18, 2011.

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• When I signed with Scooter Braun and I decided to go overseas to promote my song, the only concern was how should I communicate with the public and the audience with my language. Scooter and I talked a lot about that: should we translate or not? Finally we didn't, and I think that was a really good decision.

  PSY

  Song, Thinking, Decision

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• When I'm writing for a book, it's much more reflective process. I have certain things that may not translate well to the stage, but, when they're on the page, people can really get into them. My first two books were aiming to be funnier, but the third was more about deep exploration. Things about being a parent and growing older that I thought would be perfect for a book.

  Paul Reiser

  Book, Writing, Two

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