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• A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion. What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles. A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Kings, Loneliness, Boys

  Naomi Shihab Nye (1998). “Fuel: Poems”, p.81, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that pretend to replace or translate those of the shapeless universe beyond.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Dark, Space

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.17, Vintage Canada

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• I've never had the impulse for someone else to translate me into my own language. My impulse has always been to translate someone else into mine.

  Idra Novey

  Language, Impulse

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Funny, Humorous, Math

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• I always find live shows on film kind of boring. Even my favorite ones, I kinda zone out for most of it. It's just so different seeing a band in the flesh and then watching a film of it, even if you have a hundred cameras and it's shot from every angle. There's just a communal, visceral thing that never translates very well.

  Win Butler

  Different, Kind, Film

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Our feelings alone don't change what happens with the police, what happens in jail, what happens when someone tries to go to the welfare office, the unemployment office, or any kind of state agency where a criminal record comes up for prostitution. How we feel about the commodification of sexuality and violence doesn't actually translate to those people's lives. A lot of the debate is really academic and a waste of time.

  Melissa Gira Grant

  Feeling Alone, Office, Police

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• THE FATHER: But don't you see that the whole trouble lies here? In words, words. Each one of us has within him a whole world of things, each man of us his own special world. And how can we ever come to an understanding if I put in the words I utter the sense and value of things as I see them; while you who listen to me must inevitably translate them according to the conception of things each one of you has within himself. We think we understand each other, but we never really do.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Father, Lying, Men

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters In Search of an Author”, p.15, Jester House Publishing

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• The translator has to be a good writer. The translator has to hear music too. And it might not be exactly your music because the translator needs to translate the music. And so, that is what you are hoping for: a translator who gets what you are doing but who also gets all the ways in which it won't work in the new language.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Language, Music Is, Translators

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• Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Song, Reading, Years

  Interview with Tom Corcoran, bookpage.com. June 1998.

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• With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on your laurels, so to speak, you think it's going to translate easily.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Thinking, Trying, Hustle

  "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Robert Downey Jr interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• If your role is to mentor somebody, what you're essentially doing is taking stock of what you've learned, the mistakes you've made, the successes you've had, and you kind of coalesce them and then you translate them back out.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Mistake, Mentor, Kind

  Source: ew.com

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• I was really inspired by intense nature and landscapes, and I'm always inspired by open spaces and giving room for things to grow sound-wise and visually. I have a bit of claustrophobia myself which I think translates into my music.

  Chelsea Wolfe

  Thinking, Giving, Inspired

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• In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

  Larry Elder

  Book, Years, Spain

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• Our job is to translate the lies, deceit, and anxiety that poisons our cultural water supply into an understandable form that we can digest.

  Paul Madonna

  Lying, Water, Anxiety

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Balanced, sensible nutrition: eat food, not too much, mostly plants, a healthy diet ala Michael Pollan, modern physical activity on a daily basis, modest weight loss - translated into a 58% reduction in the occurrence of diabetes. A clear indication of the power of lifestyle over health. The challenge now is the development of the community-based programs that will translate what we learned in the diabetes prevention program and put it to work in every town in America.

  David Katz

  Loss, Challenges, Healthy

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The optimist in me sees corporations in the present era as more open to change than they were in the 1990s. Certainly, because of the relatively poor performance of many corporations in the early part of millennial , there seems to be less arrogance in executive suites, and that usually translates to a willingness to consider alternatives.

  James O'Toole

  Arrogance, Poor, Optimist

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• When you think of everything in terms of just money, then almost nothing is enough. I mean, how much money is enough? Because it's hard to translate money into goods. And I think people, once, I think there's a lot things can believe, and once they start thinking about wealth in terms of money, they lose the idea of enough-ness.

  Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Basically, you know, write the book you want to read, be the band you want to hear, grow the food you want to eat, create the world you want to live in, and so on and so on. I think this translates well for how Christians should approach their present-day situation where the current goal of most everyone, Christian or not, seems to be to procure power.

  Tripp York

  Christian, Book, Writing

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• People around me are always an inspiration due to their love of the music and they help me to generate ideas for music. But it's really the passion and drive I have for my music that keeps me connected. I recorded my first song in the studio at 8 years old and I've taken it seriously since then. Making music is fun to me so I aim to translate those feelings into the music.

  Chingy

  Song, Fun, Inspiration

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• I wrote Baghdad Central right after translating a great work by Ibrahim al-Koni, who is sort of a master of Arab fiction. In conversations with him I realized that translations have been my MFA program. If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so that I can do it in English. That's how I've figured it out.

  Elliott Colla

  Writing, Program, Great Work

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.

  Juan Williams

  Radio, Cables, Universe

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• For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That meant Germany for my first summer vacation, to learn the thorny language on my own.

  Paul Engle

  Summer, Philosophy, Vacation

  Paul Engle (1996). “A lucky American childhood”, Univ of Iowa Pr

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• If you are not bored by life, and your primary motto is enthusiasm and if you like your friends, family around you, it all translates into your designs. That's what keeps the creativity alive.

  Christian Louboutin

  Creativity, Bored, Design

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• I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.

  Ang Lee

  Reading, Book, Way

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• You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

  Karl Kraus

  Often Is, Ideas, Action

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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