Eliot Weinberger Quotes
Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.Eliot Weinberger
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We're concerned how gambling and betting affects the NHL game and changes the perception of and challenges the integrity of the NHL game.
Gary Bettman -
Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.
Octavia E. Butler -
Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.
Zane Grey -
We're in a period of revolutionary change. I'm optimistic. One's self changes, and then the world changes. It's going to begin internally, not externally.
Laura Esquivel -
One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
Pam Brown -
It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.
Lady Gregory
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Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.
Malcolm Gladwell -
It's not humanly possible for anyone not to go through changes. Change is a constant in everyone's life, even in mine. I have enjoyed the change at every stage of my life.
Rani Mukerji -
Now in business we do a cost benefit analysis before we make policy changes. Washington should as well.
Vicky Hartzler -
Changes in our aesthetic tastes have no value or meaning in and of themselves; what has value and meaning is the idea of change itself. Or, better stated: not change in and of itself, but change as an agent or inspiration of modern creations.
Octavio Paz -
Nothing changes like changes, because nothing changes but the changes.
Gary Busey -
It really is true that when an issue becomes pop culture, it changes faster, and it's really great for the issue.
Jack Antonoff Fun.
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Working with Lasse Hallstroem was like a rollercoaster, because he doesn't have one specific vision. It changes daily, or it's always evolving.
Manish Dayal -
Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic diet - tomatoes, chillis, peppers of every size and rice, which is a Mexican staple. The Pacific coast has a huge array of seafood.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
Translation is the art of failure.
Umberto Eco -
For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.
Utada Hikaru -
I'm sure there will continue to be exciting new products and major changes, but it looks as if the existing technology has a great deal of room to grow and prosper.
Jack Kilby -
There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.
R. Lee Ermey
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I called Expo Hall to pick out dates in two to three weeks' time, because it sounds like we may do this again. We want to get a handle on how successful it was and what changes need to be made to the process.
Jason Cooper The Cure -
NHL clubs don't like having to shut down at a critical part of the season and disrupt our season for anything, let alone a situation where we're not given an opportunity to promote our presence.
Gary Bettman -
The end excuses any evil.
Sophocles -
As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with.
Idris Elba -
I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It's how rats are. It's what makes them rats. But a human doesn't run and hide in dark places, because he's something more. Lying is the most personal act of cowardice there is.
Nancy Farmer -
Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.
Eliot Weinberger