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• Experiments on split-brain patients reveal how readily the left brain interpreter can make up stories and beliefs. In one experiment, for example, when the word walk was presented only to the right side of a patient's brain, he got up and started walking. When he was asked why he did this, the left brain (where language is stored and where the word walk was not presented) quickly created a reason for the action: I wanted to go get a Coke.

  Michael Gazzaniga

  Brain, Religion, Splits

  "The Ethical Brain". Book by Michael Gazzaniga, 2005.

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• The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence is like death

  Joseph Conrad

  Artist, Voice, Silence

  Joseph Conrad (2014). “Notes on Life and Letters”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• [Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger which showed what the sources of expression had been in the whole past life of the subject.

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspiration, Communication, Past

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• The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.

  Frederic Raphael

  Party, Custodians, Literature

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• Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet, whereby selecting and combining as he pleases, each man reads his own peculiar lesson according to his own peculiar mind and mood.

  Herman Melville

  Sweet, Men, Mind

  Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre; or The Ambiguities”, p.433, Herman Melville

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• Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Thinking, Two, Understanding

  'The Critic' (1779) act 1, sc. 2

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• Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is the price of his immunity from political pressure and of the security of his tenure.

  Learned Hand

  Loyalty, Believe, Political Opinions

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Communication, Two, Problem

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• God the Father is the giver of Holy Scripture; God the Son is the theme of Holy Scripture; and God the Spirit is the author, authenticator, and interpreter of Holy Scripture.

  J. I. Packer

  Father, Son, Scripture

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• The actual point in question, throughout the centuries of Christian persecution, has never been faith in God, but faith in the Bible as the word of God, and in the Church (this Church or that) as the interpreter of that word.

  Joseph Campbell

  Christian, Church, Faith In God

  Joseph Campbell (1991). “The Masks of God: Creative Mythology”, Penguin Group USA

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• Fortunately, Paul is much more interesting than most of his interpreters, myself included.

  N. T. Wright

  Interesting

  "Trevin Wax Interview with N.T. Wright". Interview with Trevin Wax, www.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• I've been lucky enough in 20 years in the media to have a nice soap box that put me in a position to describe to an American viewership that Tuscany is different from Umbria, and it's different from Emilia-Romagna and, not that that was news, but it was never presented to them in a way that was, "Hey, look. This is a different plate from that different place." And although we all think of "spaghetti, lasagna, ciao," as what Italy is all about, there's all of this great stuff... I was merely an interpreter. I wasn't the developer of the content.

  Mario Batali

  Nice, Thinking, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Throughout my childhood, I had served as an interpreter for my family. When I left home, I also left the Deaf community. I'd had enough of being a de facto intermediary and wanted to find my own identity. But, over time, I learned to embrace both cultures and find balance between them. I love my Deaf and CODA family and hope they would be proud to call me one of their own.

  Kambri Crews

  Home, Childhood, Community

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Alcohol, I had learned, was an eloquent if somewhat inaccurate interpreter. I had placed my trust that December night in glass after glass of it, eager not for drink but for a bit of talk.

  Monique Truong

  Night, Glasses, Alcohol

  Monique Truong (2004). “The Book of Salt: A Novel”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In Russia, as I sat there day after day wearing headphones, listening to the interpreter struggle to make our words relevant, I wondered if we could establish meaningful rapport with a nation that had never seen raisins dance in dark glasses on TV...never had a garage sale.

  Erma Bombeck

  Meaningful, Struggle, Dark

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• It is enough for me to hear someone talk sincerely about ideals, about the future, about philosophy, to hear him say “we" with a certain inflection of assurance, to hear him invoke "others" and regard himself as their interpreter - for me to consider him my enemy.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Philosophy, Enemy, Enough

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• I didn't think I had a voice at all, and I still think of myself as an interpreter of songs more than a singer. I thought it was too deep; people thought I was a man. I had a very strong Jamaican accent, too; the accent really messed me up for auditions.

  Grace Jones

  Song, Strong, Men

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• Ram Dass, Krishna Dass, we all spoke through interpreters. There were good interpreters there, educated people in India speak English but Maharaji was the One, the Baba, Holy Man, mendicant, he didn't speak English. We talked to him and it was hard to know him, he was an ancient holy man and I was a 21 year old seeker. So I never knew what was going on, I mean I don't really know what's going on now, my guess work is a little better perhaps.

  Surya Das

  Mean, Men, Years

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I remember once, I read in a horoscope, because I'm an Aries, I read this terrible thing, which really affected me, which said, "You will never be original. You will always be an interpreter." (Laughs) I thought, "Oh my God." You know, I had to live with that on my back for [all my life].

  Andy Serkis

  Laughing, Aries, Remember

  Source: collider.com

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• Let the children learn to see in nature an expression of the love and the wisdom of God; let the thought of Him be linked with bird and flower and tree; let all things seen become to them the interpreters of the unseen, and all the events of life be a means of divine teaching. As they learn thus to study the lessons in all created things and in all life's experiences, show that the same laws which govern the things of nature and the events of life are to control us, that they are given for our good, and that only in obedience to them can we find true happiness and success.

  Ellen G. White

  Children, Flower, Teaching

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• Finally I started really opening up as a songwriter and an interpreter and taking songs from all kind of genres and stripping them down to just lyrics and the story inside the lyrics, and trying to make them really mine.

  Lizz Wright

  Song, Opening Up, Trying

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I did my first movie, "The Mambo Kings," in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director.

  Antonio Banderas

  Movie, Kings, America

  "Actor Antonio Banderas". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 18, 2011.

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• I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.

  Sarah Brightman

  Composer

  Twitter post from Apr 06, 2014

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• I'm an interpreter of music.

  Sarah Brightman

  "DIVA TALK: A Chat With Phantom of the Opera and International Concert Star Sarah Brightman". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. April 5, 2013.

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• One of the producers, Wonjo, was an amazing interpreter. I don't think we really knew how it was going to work at the beginning. Yet it was something that a couple of days into it seemed so seamless and it wasn't something that we noticed or thought about. A couple of times I cornered him and forced him to speak English but we didn't speak much English at all. That said, I don't think anything was ever lost in translation. It was all very easy.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Couple, Thinking, Speak English

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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