I suspect that most playgoers don't understand how inexact a science literary translation is. Even the simplest of lines may lend itself to multiple renderings.
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Related I don't think that science is complete at all. We don't understand everything, and one can s... CHARLES H. TOWNES I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand t... ROGER EBERT We know there were some refrigerant lines that were within the structure of the trailer itself. We s... DALE NAYLOR All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degr... ANDREA CORR Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been ... HARMONY KORINE I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene. HAROLD BLOOM Them sportswriters don't even know how to put uniforms on, most of 'em. ERIC DICKERSON I realized mechanical engineering doesn't much lend itself to missionary work. TOM CATENA There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, per... DUSTIN HOFFMAN I claim that all those who think they can cherry-pick science simply don't understand how scienc... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car... STEVE JOBS I really don't like art where you need to know so much theory to understand. If the theory is re... MARINA ABRAMOVIC Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand. DENNIS LEHANE I don't even know why, but I've just always done it - I don't walk on handicapped parkin... CHANTAL SUTHERLAND The thing most people don't understand is that pitching isn't the same every time out. TOM SEAVER I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can per... MARK HADDON One thing I've really never had a problem with was memorizing lines. Most of the time I don'... DENNIS QUAID Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don... GREG GRAFFIN I'll still make movies for studios, but my editing process will be much further removed from the... SPIKE JONZE I've read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don't even tell you how to get a st... COLONEL SANDERS Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's ... JACKSON BROWNE There would be nothing to get me to run for president. I don't even understand how anyone would ... ELLEN DEGENERES I happen to go for the simplest, most ordinary things. The extraordinary doesn't interest me. I&... JOHN HUGHES That's how I judge a quarterback: Either you make plays or you don't. I don't even want ... FRAN TARKENTON Most people don't understand the Electoral College; they don't know why it exists. TOM GOLISANO I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you.... KOBE BRYANT Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad. ... HIDEO KOJIMA I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveal... MICHAEL SHERMER I don't ever go on the Internet. I don't even know how it works. BEVERLY CLEARY I want to go to a country where I don't speak the language. I want to be lost in translation. CYRILLE AIMEE The hardest moment comes BEFORE you get started. #DontGiveUpNow MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I ... KATHLEEN HANNA I don't blame people who suspect my performance. My own mind suspects it. How can I blame them? SRI CHINMOY I have friends who are scientists, strict materialists, who don't think science and religion are... SCOTT DERRICKSON 'Alpha' is a very fast-moving book. It doesn't lend itself to laborious introspection an... GREG RUCKA Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a ... TABITHA KING I have a very open mind. I believe that there's a spirit world. I believe that there's a lot... ANTHONY HEAD Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't underst... ALAN SUGAR I'm definitely a writer. I don't even know how to freestyle. THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, ... MOHSIN HAMID it is better to have red a great work of another culture in translation than never to have read it a... HENRY GRATTON DOYLE People just don't understand how obsessed I am with winning. KOBE BRYANT I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political. BARBARA KINGSOLVER You may not want to hear that or think of it as writing, but I’m telling you that the moving of in... KENNETH GOLDSMITH When multiple explanations exist, the simplest is usually correct. DAN BROWN I don't play villainy. I wouldn't even know how to play it. KEVIN SPACEY I've always been curious about how much of our cultural baggage we bring to what and how we read... CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE I don't think you can impose limits on science because the very nature of homo sapiens is that h... ROBERT WINSTON I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect ... TONY JUDT A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. BOB HOPE Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When ... BERTRAND RUSSELL Even if you didn't lose your job, if you're one of the two-thirds of Ontarians who don't... DALTON MCGUINTY People don't understand that I have a great relationship with my parents - like, how that can ex... KATY PERRY To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don... CHARLOTTE RAMPLING They're all focusing on how John Roberts is going to decide Roe v. Wade. That isn't even the... JAY ALAN SEKULOW I don't want to expose the intricacies of my work so people can understand how I did it. BILLY CRUDUP The secret of it is to read what you've got in front of you. Don't, if you suspect that some... HUMPHREY LYTTELTON 'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantas... CAITRIONA BALFE I don't understand why or how we can bully each other. AURORA The shores of the Black Sea lend themselves to the literary genre that may be classified as 'cul... NORMAN DAVIES I don't know if many people know this about me, but I have multiple sclerosis. So I don't ha... NEIL CAVUTO I wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn&... WARIS AHLUWALIA I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band. EVAN DANDO I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view. GORE VIDAL Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transce... SAM HARRIS And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it o... ELVIS COSTELLO Real science is the greatest, most exciting springboard I have available to me as a writer, and I do... MARK WAID As a photographer, I'm interested in how dramatically photography has changed. Most images are n... DAVID ALLEE I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall ... LOIS LOWRY And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business. ALPHONSO JACKSON In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot creat... JAMES MATTIS I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it. MAIRA KALMAN A movie that I've seen probably the most is 'Fanny & Alexander,' the Ingmar Bergman ... GILLIAN JACOBS Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you... ARTHUR LEVITT I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people... JUDE LAW Stradivarius, in particular, was the most amazing craftsman and one of the great artists and scienti... JOSHUA BELL I've never been in a Sweat Lodge. I, myself, personally don't even like sitting in a sauna, ... HULK HOGAN People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not under... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. RUDYARD KIPLING I suppose I'm a bit mean. My face on camera doesn't lend itself to happy nice guys. I think ... RICHARD C. ARMITAGE Even though I believe a superlative translation can achieve timelessness, that doesn't mean I th... LYDIA DAVIS You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child... REGINA KING I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all. JACK VANCE We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? W... DAVID EAGLEMAN If I were a child of Tibet or of Arabia, I suspect the path I'd walk would be the Buddhist path ... JOHN SHELBY SPONG I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's somethin... EDDIE VEDDER What really disconcerts commentators, I suspect, is that when they read historical fiction, they fee... HILARY MANTEL I'm not into street clothes. Don't understand it. I don't understand those over-exaggera... OZWALD BOATENG I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would... EMINEM I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don... IMELDA STAUNTON Most of us don't think about miracles that we could possibly do. We don't have a vocabulary ... BRUCE WILKINSON The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, ... NHAT HANH Everyone knows dogs. Most people love dogs. I think most American families probably have a dog, but ... ROBERT CRAIS Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly en... HUGH JACKMAN In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is. BARRY WATSON I'm more of a handbag girl; my guilty pleasure is bags. I don't even have a clue how many I ... POPPY DELEVINGNE No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I did... AMY TAN People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don... IAN HAMILTON FINLAY Corporate America limits the world to consumerism. Science can limit it to the material world. Even ... SCOTT DERRICKSON I just don't understand how you can not be concerned about your appearance. From time to time I&... STEPHEN BAYLEY
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They allow sunrises and sunsets in ridiculous pink and blue... TERRY PRATCHETT All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move ... TERRY EAGLETON People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is wh... TERRY ANDERSON The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but ... TERRY WAITE What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology.... TERRY EAGLETON Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. TERRY EAGLETON When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge. TERRY BRADSHAW In sport, mental imagery is used primarily to help you get the best out of yourself in training and ... TERRY ORLICK Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the a... TERRY EAGLETON What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence. TERRY BRADSHAW A mistake is a Buddhist gift.
Director Terry Gilliam to Robin Williams. TERRY GILLIAM I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while? Dea... TERRY PRATCHETT Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. ELLEN TERRY Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. TERRY PRATCHETT It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into the enemy. TERRY PRATCHETT The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - b... TERRY SOUTHERN ’I'd have you lot up in front of the University authorities first thing in the morning, if it wasn... TERRY PRATCHETT Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces TERRY PRATCHETT It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what th... TERRY PRATCHETT One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than... TERRY PRATCHETT It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it. TERRY PRATCHETT Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom. TERRY PRATCHETT This book had two authors, and they were both the same person. TERRY PRATCHETT If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch. TERRY PRATCHETT Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them. TERRY PRATCHETT Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility. TERRY PRATCHETT ...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened. TERRY PRATCHETT We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything. TERRY PRATCHETT His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans --... TERRY PRATCHETT Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. TERRY PRATCHETT Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time. TERRY PRATCHETT DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH. TERRY PRATCHETT It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Li... TERRY PRATCHETT Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some ... TERRY PRATCHETT Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his lif... TERRY PRATCHETT