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• I didn't want to make a record that was just guitar and voice, that was just the technology available to me. At the time, I remember thinking, "I am making a Faust album." That didn't translate.

  Devendra Banhart

  Thinking, Technology, Guitar

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When you connect to a primal idea - life, death, hunger, hope, fear - any of those primal ideas are going to translate, and I think that's the thing that I've always been attracted to in my work.

  Will Smith

  Thinking, Ideas, Hunger

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The media is uncritical, and their so-called the concept of objectivity translates into keeping everything within the Beltway. However, Iraq was quite different. Here, there were flat-out lies, and they sort of knew it. They were desperately trying to make connections between Saddam Hussein and 9/11.

  Noam Chomsky

  Lying, Iraq, Objectivity

  "Noam Chomsky on the 2016 Republicans: 'I Have Never Seen Such Lunatics in the Political System'". Interview with Simone Chun / Hankyoreh, www.alternet.org. March 11, 2016.

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• I wanted to do is kind of invoke that and then dive into that kind of repetition as a DJ thing because DJing you hear beats, like "boom, boom, boom, bap, bap." You know hip hop, house, techno. So how do you translate between those electronic motifs and the motifs of the landscape itself? That is what I wanted to go for.

  DJ Spooky

  House, Hip Hop, Landscape

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It's unfortunate that [Louis] Brandeis was not able to translate or abstract his devotion to cultural pluralism and racial equality as he put it for Jews to enslave people and their descendants and to African Americans.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  People, African American, Pluralism

  Source: www.slate.com

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• It is only with united effort and faith in our destiny that we shall be able to translate the Pakistan of our dreams into reality.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Dream, Reality, Destiny

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• I'm a touring artist - I love going out and playing live, and I was sick of making records didn't translate well live - that misrepresented who I was as an artist. I'm not saying those records weren't good. I think they're great. I think a lot of them have great songs. My challenge was making the songs that were specifically great for the type of personality I wanted to present which was my personality - I wanted to get that across on record - and have something that was fun and energetic live.

  Todd Carey

  Song, Fun, Thinking

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

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• The original is unfaithful to the translation.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Originality, Unfaithful, Translations

  Sobre el "Vathek"de William Beckford (1943) in Obras Completas (1974) p. 730

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• God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

  John Donne

  War, Justice, Age

  John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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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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• Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

  Anthony Burgess

  Design, Culture, Matter

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• I'll believe it if I see it" for dogs translates to "I'll believe it if I smell it." So don't bother yelling at them; it's the energy and scent they pay attention to, not your words.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Believe, Yelling

  Cesar Millan, Melissa Jo Peltier (2007). “Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar's Way to Transform Your Dog . . . and Your Life”, p.11, Crown Archetype

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• A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

  Bertrand Russell

  Clever, Smart, Stupid

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• The subconscious mind makes no distinction between constructive and destructive thought impulses. It works with the material we feed it, through our thought impulses. The subconscious mind will translate into reality a thought driven by fear, just as readily as it will translate into reality a thought driven by courage or faith.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Reality, Mind

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.48, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values-that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Success, Acceptance

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.105, Penguin

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• You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have. And you cannot give that which you do not possess. To give it and to share it, and for it to be effective, you first need to have it. Good communication starts with good preparation.

  Jim Rohn

  Communication, Giving, Preparation

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jun 01, 2015

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• You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.

  Jim Rohn

  Strong, Feelings, Labor

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 08, 2017

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• When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.

  Drake

  Song, Rap, Writing

  "How to Drake It in America" by Michael Paterniti, www.gq.com. June 18, 2013.

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