Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Translate Quotes from famous authors such as Sue Monk Kidd, Jean Pigozzi, Samira Wiley, Amy Jo Martin, Prabhu Deva. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!
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I never know how to give advice to a writer because there’s so much you could say, and it’s hard to translate your own experience. But of course, I always try. The main thing that I usually end up saying is to read a lot. To read a great deal and to learn from that.
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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.
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When you’re in prison, the progress of the outside world doesn’t necessarily translate inside prison walls. You don’t have any rights; it just doesn’t progress along the same timeline.
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There are many benefits to a sports entity breaking news directly to their recipients: the entity has full control over the message and how it is shared versus previously relying on a media outlets to translate or distribute as they choose. Also, there’s no quicker place for valuable information to spread than Twitter.
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‘Que Sera Sera’ had a very unusual rhythm. It was a challenge for me to pick up Rahman’s beats and translate them into dance steps.
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Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.
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I think that as a director, especially when it comes to writing the script, which I also do, and I’m also the first one to visualize this story, I think contributing to the film industry means I’m able to take the best of a story and translate it well into a movie that can be released in theaters.
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I think it actually started in my late thirties. I started changing psychologically, and it was difficult to translate that into my writing.
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My favourite language, actually, is Czech, just because it’s so colourful. We have so many combinations, words, and expressions. I have to say there are a lot of things which you can say in Czech, but you cannot really translate, because the meaning would make no sense.
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If firms were made to hire according to quotas, it might optimize the percentage of women in the industry, but that doesn’t necessarily translate into more quality products for the customer.
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Notwithstanding my present incompetency, I am beginning to translate the New Testament, being extremely anxious to get some parts of Scripture, at least, into an intelligible shape, if for no other purpose than to read, as occasion offers, to the Burmans I meet with.
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I can sleep fine at night knowing that even though my honesty might not translate very diplomatically, the words I speak have good intent, and I live my life with great integrity.
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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.
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I’m not sure my books would translate into movies very easily. So rather than have someone do a terrible job, I haven’t been willing to sell them.
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Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.
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‘Material’ is meant to be a fun, lighthearted song about the tiny bit of materialism that’s in all of us. The message is meant to translate the notion that you don’t need luxury items to feel special; you already are special.
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When I’m making a new ballet, I usually read through the score a little bit, and then I have to go back and translate or transcribe all the counts for dancers because the way that you hear it is completely different from the way the musicians read and play it.
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You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid.
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The discipline it takes to train and push past discomfort and continually grow through both trial and error and critique are things that translate really well into the process of running for office.
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When you translate a dream into reality, it’s never a full implementation. It is easier to dream than to do.
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As much as I really love the praise and affection I get when my work is appreciated, it doesn’t translate to money in the bank.
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I don’t think we have reached a point where art really translates into science. Perhaps for some people, having good visuals can help translate into science.
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It’s fun to try and picture what exactly is in your head and translate it onto the screen. How you can take something that lives in my mind and bring it to life – but that part is fun.
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Art has been good for my soul. And it’s been good for my brain. I think I’m a better painter now than I was a musician growing up. You struggle to see things and translate an image through your hands to a canvas.
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A worldly actor is a better actor. It sounds pretentious, but I think having these experiences can translate back into your work.
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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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As the U.S. is import-dependent, this will translate into higher domestic prices.
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I translate Hawaii as a place where people make sure I’m having a great time, eating terrific food, without any expectation of anything in return. It’s a place for people to be happy. It sounds corny, but in Hawaii, it’s not; it’s uncorny.
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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.
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In the real world, words don’t automatically translate into deeds.
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With music, you often don’t have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don’t know why.
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Two kids in their dorm room can’t start anything important in space today. That’s why I want to take the assets I have from Amazon and translate that into the heavy-lifting infrastructure that will allow the next generation to have dynamic entrepreneurialism in space, to build that transportation network.
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The divorce does not translate into any change in the way my daughter and I connect. She is very special to me. She is my only daughter and I love her very much. She is my priority and I will always be there for her.
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We want to help everyone find meaning in their life and help translate the story that each person actually matters in the world.
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Sometimes styles don’t translate. Rey Mysterio was a master of doing that. No matter where he went, Rey could make his style adapt. But not everyone is Rey Mysterio.
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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’.
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I’m the know-nothing. I’m curious, I try to be entertaining, I try to translate the techno jargon, but in the end I’m the audience’s representative.
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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.
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Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.
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I’m a satirist, so I’ve got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I’m not an assassin. If that ever happens, it’s only because something happened during the interview that got me going, and then I had to translate my feelings to the mouth of the character.
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An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
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Shakespeare is undoubtedly the greatest dramatist the world has known, and 95 countries translate his work into their languages.
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Every partner has their strengths, and our responsibility as professionals is to recognize those strengths and capitalize on them, choreographically. You have to translate that chemistry on the dance floor and make their personalities shine.
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Interestingly, I never thought I’d do an adaptation. I’ve 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, aren’t they?
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The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
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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.
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So if I get pegged as a bikini girl, that’s fine, and that can still translate into acting or other areas. But, no, I don’t wanna be doing bikini shoots my whole life.
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It will be interesting to see if Seoul’s urban vocabulary of numerous, ever-present interactive screens will translate to other cities such as Beijing, London, and New York. It will also be intriguing to see if smaller cities and towns adopt aspects of Seoul’s screen culture throughout Asia, Europe, and North America.
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I think great writers should write great shows, and I have trouble with, like, what you are in life shouldn’t automatically make you what you do in your art. It doesn’t necessarily translate.
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I agree Maria Blasco has achieved amazing things with telomerase induction and we are hopeful this will translate to the human model.
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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.
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In every democracy, it is the people’s will that is supreme. We should translate the intense yearning of the people of India and Pakistan for friendship into meaningful measures of cooperation in every walk of life.
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What makes something pop? It’s really just the bed it’s placed in. If I grab melodies by Black Sabbath or Metallica and take them out of their musical bed and put them into a pop context, it’s not like they wouldn’t translate.
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My time at Barnard was fun but stressful. I transferred there from the acting conservatory at NYU, and my Rolling Around On the Floor Pretending to Be a Lion classes didn’t translate into many academic credits.
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Somehow, German just vanished at some point. We already started at an early stage to translate our albums, and at some point, we started to write only in English.
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I just hope and pray that my passion and enthusiasm translate on-screen.
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Of course you want to be good and you want to do the best you can, but I am inspired by great writing. If there’s something about the script, that’s what I go for, although I know that that doesn’t always translate because sometimes it’s about the vision of the director.
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I think you translate emotion better when you take your hands off.
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I think I always knew that the things that I was born with can definitely translate to the NBA. Energy and being able to run, rebound, those things will always translate.
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I became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance.
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My womenswear line would translate well into childrenswear.
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I feel that if the situation arises when the skipper hands me the ball, I should be confident that I can do the job, and only then will that translate into performance.
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People think skating would translate very easily to dancing, but it really doesn’t. Dancing is a lot of fun and not as dangerous as being on the ice.
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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.
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The radical power of ‘queer’ always came from its inclusivity. But that inclusivity offers a false promise of equality that does not translate to the lived reality of most queer people.
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Writing sketches, you’re also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.
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I love to think of some of the greats like Dior, or Chanel, lying in bed at night unable to sleep because the image of a dress came creeping into their minds and they couldn’t let it go, so on went the bedside light as they reached for their pen and paper to translate that vision into an image.
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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.
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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.
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I loved being at the Royal Ballet. Those choreographers, MacMillan and Ashton, they knew how to translate complicated life into choreography.
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Just as man can’t exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one’s rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.
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Classical music’s ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.
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When I was a boy, my father used to criticize me for – it’s hard to translate – I guess you could say ‘mindless time.’ Thinking what to do. I need to be bored so I can be pushed into doing something.
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It is the police of America who are on the front lines, who are on the streets, who are in the daily contact with American citizens, who translate the dreams of American citizens when they succeed and frustrate the dreams when they fail.
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It’s a maddening thing in itself to look at an old poem of yours. To translate it is even more maddening.
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You’d be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
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Everything is always feasible if you run a corporate finance exercise: you can always try to come out with a justification on how things could work. But the real issue is to say how do you translate that into practice.
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We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.
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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.
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I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I’ve been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me – you’re doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.
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Since I have that edgy, rocker-tomboy kind of vibe, it can be very difficult to translate my style for the red carpet.
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You have an absolute right to translate poetry in any form with any sound. It’s all up for grabs.
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Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.
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I write in the most classical French because this form is necessary for my novels: to translate the murky, floating, unsettling atmosphere I wanted them to have, I had to discipline it into the clearest, most traditional language possible.
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The two biggest things that translate from the pitching mound to hunting and fishing are patience and perseverance. When you’re on the mound, you have to take the game one pitch at a time, regardless of the score, and that approach helps when I’m in the woods or on the water as well.
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The skill of telemarketing does not necessarily translate into governing.
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Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums.
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Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful in helping young people to develop communication/collaboration skills, let alone improving their own confidence.
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I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.
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An American customer can book in English all over the world, but also, somebody from Japan or China can book in their own language everywhere. We translate all of our content into these languages, and that’s quite unique. We service our direct customers – the innkeepers – as well in their own language.
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Governments follow their people. A great deal has to do with the vision of the leadership of governments. They have a vision, and they translate that to their people and to their counterparts in other countries. You can fulfill and achieve a great deal if you get along well as individuals, as people, as persons.
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It’s definitely fun when you’re able to translate your practice into the game. It’s fun, and you know that your hard work paid off.
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Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments to the common good and justice. Truth is not mere abstraction but something to be done and is only apprehended when this is realized.
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I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably.
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To my mind, the most successful and the best comic book illustrators are those who translate the real world into a consistent code. If you look at Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko, their drawings look nothing like the real world, but they are internally consistent. In terms of a comic book it can work just fine.
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I understand that I have to prove myself as a manager. I think I have the potential. I have a lot of knowledge to share, and I think I’m well equipped to translate my thoughts to the players.
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I’ve been told that I might make a good producer because I am very Type A, and I’m kind of a control freak, so I’ve been told that that might translate well into producing, so I would certainly be open to trying my hand at that.
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I am very good at comedy off screen. I wish I could translate it so that you could get to see how mad I am.
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I definitely want to put my kids in gymnastics at an early age, whether that’s what they want to or not. Gymnastics just builds such a great fundamental strength at a young age, and they get great; they learn how to move with their body. I think that can translate to any sport later in life.
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Higher costs naturally translate into fewer employers offering insurance coverage, and fewer employees accepting it, even when it is offered.
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When I say, ‘The choice to not marry,’ that doesn’t always translate into, ‘I am a woman, and I am deciding that I am not going to get married,’ or ‘I am rejecting marriage.’
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A lot of times with artists from back in the day, they do a new album and they don’t sell as much. People say they love them, and it doesn’t always translate to new music.
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The intensity and importance of each possession. That’s the thing about the NBA that doesn’t always translate to television.
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Whenever you hear news about jobless claims or the unemployment rate, you should translate that in your mind to one simple phrase: Stay in school.
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I wouldn’t exclude writing another song in German, but I don’t want to translate songs anymore. We used to sit down and literally translate every song word for word – it was very technical, and the songs would lose so much along the way.
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I’m quite good at Lego and Fifa, but they don’t translate in the real world.
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We understand U.S. position, but we have to find a way to make trade translate into better jobs in North America.
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I believed in what I was. I didn’t believe that would translate into any of the five championships. But I knew that I could affect the game.
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The one thing that I always encourage women who want to be WWE Divas to do is have something you are passionate about. For me it was Jiu-Jitsu and martial arts. For some people it’s soccer. Whatever it is, it gives you confidence and that will translate.
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Animated films are so precisely engineered – right down to forming lines of dialogue with words pulled from several different takes – how do you translate that spontaneity from the live-action to the digital realm?
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I do play in a spread offense and in order to translate into the NFL, I’ll have to take snaps under center.
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I had been reading magazines a lot, and I love magazines, and so I was always asking myself why is it that these gorgeous articles just don’t translate well to the web? Presentation was one aspect of it.
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It’s hard to translate excitement for one candidate to another.
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I’m not standing above the audience trying to manipulate them as a puppet master or a trickster; I’m inside the story I’m writing and making and thinking about things very seriously and feeling very deeply at times, and trying to translate that into a narrative.
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If you read a book about school – someone else’s book – you always translate it into your own school experiences. It’s describing the student: he’s bewildered and lost in a large crowd in a university classroom. You’ll visualize that from your own experiences. So, everything you know is what you’re really writing.
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I didn’t think my success from film was going to translate at all, musically. In fact, it worked against me.
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While awareness-building is a crucial first step, cohesive efforts are needed to translate this into real-world change.
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In English, there is one word for sister. In Chinese, there are two separate words, for elder and younger sister. This is actually a translation problem because if you see the word sister, you don’t know how to translate it to Chinese because you don’t know if it’s an elder sister or younger.
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When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue. But it didn’t really translate into careers for any of them, because the external is the easy part.
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I have a personal relationship with Dizzee Rascal – I know him, he’s cool – so this is no disrespect to him or any other British rappers who tried to make it in America, like Wiley and Tinie Tempah, but the type of music they were making to be accepted over there – it doesn’t translate.
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When you start a new job or a particular journey, you really don’t know what to expect. I mean, you hear about your name being on the bestsellers list, but it doesn’t really mean anything. Like, really, what does that translate to?
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I’m a writer and a photographer – I’m totally aware that doesn’t always translate to TV.
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In the early days, some producers and directors saw me in the musical ‘Evita’ and cast me in their movies. They heard me singing on stage also, but they couldn’t translate that into a Hindi movie song.
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Jesus is why women have traveled continents, spent decades learning a strange language so they could translate the Gospel, planting churches, caring for the sick, educating the illiterate, and marching for the oppressed.
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If there is an interpreter sitting between two friends, he may be able to translate the words but not the feelings with which I say something.
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The exciting thing about doing art for someone else’s story is how I can translate their world through pictures, and that’s always a pretty big challenge.
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Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.
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As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
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In the beginning, I was truly trying to take what I felt when I was in a field or in an outdoor space and directly translate it into the music.
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Sarcasm doesn’t translate in print at all.
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My big thesis is that although the world looks messy and chaotic, if you translate it into the world of numbers and shapes, patterns emerge and you start to understand why things are the way they are.
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We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.
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When you translate poetry in particular, you’re obliged to look at how the writer with whom you’re working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.
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What I think is about running faster and faster, and I believe that will translate into medals.
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The Mitch Rapp novels are as thrilling and entertaining as they are relevant. I am delighted to be given the opportunity to translate them to the screen.
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‘Shan shui’ you can literally translate as ‘mountain and water.’ In traditional Chinese culture, there are a lot of paintings about shan shui, but now we’re talking about a shan-shui city.
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My career was always about working with people, and understanding issues and problems and helping them to solve those issues and problems. How you deal with people – that’s what diplomacy is all about. So while I’m not a career diplomat, many of the skills I had seemed to directly translate into the diplomatic arena.
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Sometimes on-camera friends don’t translate into your real life, but not for me.
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It’s really exciting to see all those people that exist in numbers online translate into tickets and then into faces, handshakes, pictures, stories.
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I like to make little movies or fake stories about something that happened in my life. I will make a movie in my mind that would translate the same feeling or emotion that I had in whatever just happened.
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If you understand a scene well, it is not hard to translate it onscreen.
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The two don’t necessarily translate, especially if you’re a prize fighter: you’ve fought all your life, you’ve fought all these fights, and now you’re trying to do a movie. You see that happen a lot – a lot of professional fighters don’t necessarily make it so well into the movie world.
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Clean air and clean ocean, you can’t translate that into money if you look at the cost to health, cost to fishery industry.
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I get hugs all the time from strangers. I do believe that people can feel your persona when you perform live, but it is one of the nicest things if you can translate that on your records.
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We all have to announce our full solidarity with the struggle of those seeking freedom and justice in Syria, and translate this sympathy into a clear political vision that supports a peaceful transition to a democratic system of rule that reflects the demands of the Syrian people for freedom.
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Just because it tastes good in Hong Kong, it doesn’t necessarily translate elsewhere.
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Trivikram garu is my inspiration to learn Telugu. When I made my debut I didn’t understand a single word, even when people around me would be talking. Trivikram garu used to translate for me.
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Now that we can read and write the genetic code, put it in digital form and translate it back into synthesized life, it will be possible to speed up biological evolution to the pace of social evolution.
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For almost every interview, I had to have others translate for me, and look for someone to do that. I had a lot of miserable moments. But my teammates treated me well and helped me gain confidence.
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When I was detoxing from social media, I realized that I was thinking in status updates. It seemed I had trained my brain to translate everything I experienced throughout the day into 140 characters or less.
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I couldn’t do a record without knowing I’ll translate it into something visual.
152
When I’m sitting around watching a game with some friends, and we’re all excited, and Jordan is driving in, we might say, ‘Come on Mike, break me off a little somethin’-somethin’.’ I decided to take that and translate it into what I do on ‘SportsCenter.’ Just add statistics.
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Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It’s a totally different skill set. Nor is it just to translate exactly what’s on the page directly on to the screen – because that would be terrible. It would be five hours long, and the structure would be a mess. But the writers know the characters and the story.
154
One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn’t seem to translate that way.
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I like to say, ‘Chop suey’s 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.’
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I’m a really fun aunt, so I hope I’m going to be a fun mom! I like to have fun and be silly and not take myself too seriously with the kids, so I hope that will translate when I actually have my own.
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As a player, I could have the ball in my hands; I could kind of dictate what happens. I’m still learning, a young coach with young players. Sometimes I’m going to see things. They’re not going to see what I see. So it’s being able to translate that and help them see what I’m seeing.
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I’m not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on ‘Paradise Lost’ to translate it.
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If you’re giving me tickets to the football game, baseball game or hockey game, I’m taking the tickets to the hockey game. For me, it’s by far the most fun sport to go and watch live and be part of. I just don’t know why it doesn’t translate as well on TV.
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When you give as a family, not only are you sharing the happiness that giving brings you by watching it translate into positive change, but you are also transmitting your giving values to your children by engaging them in the giving process itself.
