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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
Jorge Luis Borges

Authors on Translate Quotes: Ann Goldstein Voltaire Matthieu Ricard Olivia Stuck Ariel Rechtshaid David Byrne Jorge Luis Borges Robert Fitzgerald Dana Scott Janeane Garofalo Sam Lipsyte Milton H. Erickson Idra Novey Aimee Mann Juan Williams Spiro T. Agnew Achy Obejas Jim Courier Terry Tempest Williams C. S. Lewis Kobi Yamada Napoleon Hill W. H. Auden Charlie Brooker John Mulaney Ron Padgett Daniel Kehlmann Jim Rohn Paul Auster Horace Marguerite Yourcenar Wanda Koop Beth Comstock
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Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy.
Spiro T. Agnew

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Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.
Etgar Keret

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Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like.
Jean Paul Gaultier

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We always translate the other person's language into our own language.
Milton H. Erickson

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I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that I was a learned fellow.
Martin Luther

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

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Translating is writing.
Marguerite Yourcenar

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It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
Voltaire

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Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?
Matthieu Ricard

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Some experiences simply do not translate. you have to go to know.
Kobi Yamada

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With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.
David Byrne

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Our job is to understand where the market is heading and translate that into practical action.
Beth Comstock

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To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.
W. H. Auden

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When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Learning is really about translating knowing what to do into doing what we know.
John G. Miller

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Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.
Northrop Frye

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Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.
C. S. Lewis

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I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate.
Wanda Koop

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When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.
Octavio Paz

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ALL THOUGHTS WHICH HAVE BEEN EMOTIONALIZED, (given feeling) AND MIXED WITH FAITH, begin immediately to translate themselves into their physical equivalent or counterpart.
Napoleon Hill

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Color transmits and translates emotion.
Wassily Kandinsky

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As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word.
Horace

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It is Allah's word just as it is in the Koran. We are also not allowed to translate it. It is unimportant whether what it says is well received or not. We are not allowed to question even a single word.
Abdul Sattar Abu Risha

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To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.
George Steiner

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I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.
Ree Drummond

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It's one of the hardest things to translate anything that's not standard.
Ann Goldstein

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When you truly have fun on the set it translates into a funny show on tv.
Olivia Stuck

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It's interesting, in the U.K., I'm known for doing comedy things, which often doesn't translate to the U.S.
Charlie Brooker

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There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.
Robert Fitzgerald

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When you translate the American writers who are best with dialogue into German - someone like Elmore Leonard, or Tom Wolfe, who's also quite good with dialogue. It's very hard to translate them well.
Daniel Kehlmann

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Mythmaking is the evolutionary enterprise of translating truths.
Terry Tempest Williams

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Nothing translates worse than comedy into the printed word.
Janeane Garofalo

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I haven't done any translating for decades now. It's something I did when I was young.
Paul Auster

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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

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Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.
Juan Williams

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The fiction I've written and published is certainly inflected by the work of authors I was reading or translating at the time. One of my methods for developing my own voice in fiction, a process I am taking very slowly and deliberately, is through these very intense encounters with certain writers. Strength and power in fiction is being able to resist these intoxicating voices, recognizing that they are the signatures of other writers and not one's own.
Adam Morris

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There's no evidence that says that the money a federation has translates into success. I hope that that will change.
Jim Courier

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I learn things in a backward way. I learn all those limitations, and slowly my brain soaks them up, and if things go right, you just, in an organic way, translate your ideas into those templates. That's the way I perceive the process happening.
Bob Odenkirk

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It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a poet.
Ron Padgett

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Part of standup is being loose and having a good time yourself and that translates to the audience.
John Mulaney

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I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over.
Ben Stiller

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It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?
Voltaire

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

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I became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance.
Raymond Cruz

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I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.
Rachel Maddow

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Something that is very difficult to translate is the humor.
Luis Negron

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When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into the new one.
Dana Scott

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I'm more of a whiz on the guitar and drums. I hear certain sounds in my head, and I find it easy to translate them into synth sounds, but I'm not really technically-minded.
Ladyhawke

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I think that physical actions are always hard to describe, to translate.
Ann Goldstein