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Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.

It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.

Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber.

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high profile here and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

I woke up find a rather noisy multi-lingual meeting going on. This was great as everyone could participate and even though everything had to be translated into about four different languages it never became boring. After a while the meeting broke up and everyone went for food.

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

China approaches fashion with strong enthusiasm. And I believe that this enthusiasm can be translated into something interesting, economically speaking. Not only for my brand, but also for other brands.

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

It can bum you out when your intentions aren't, like, translated properly.

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

I never translated from my days in the Navy to being a congressman.

Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.

I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Second, the President's popularity has not translated into increased support for the Republican party or for the policies and approaches on domestic policy championed by the President.

I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.

You know, this is really a way of cooking. It's not my way. I'm deeply influenced by the Mediterranean way of being. I've spent a lot of time there. And I've sort of translated it; I've tried to make it available to people in this country to whom it might not be familiar.

The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.