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The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out…

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Investigative reporting is the bone structure without which the journalistic body collapses. The Center for Public Integrity's constant and consistently enterprising investigative…
Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool.
An essential part of the magic involves turning everyone into an enemy, to ward off surprises.
For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power.
One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.
I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.
What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?
Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other…
I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think…
And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and…
So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd…
The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole…

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Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really. — Balthus
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things. — Flora Lewis
Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language — Sophie Marceau
I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language,… — Juliet Stevenson
Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint. — Gates McFadden
In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended… — Shirley Hazzard
The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole… — Alma Guillermoprieto
Believe in miracles but don't depend on them. When you hear kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so. Spoil your… — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and when we… — Richard Bach
Why in the world anyone in America is allowing another language (other than English) to be his first... I don't know — Margaret Thatcher
To speak another language is to have another soul — Charlemagne
Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except… — Robert Fitzgerald

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