"Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, theyâ€™re no good."

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Source : Speech at the Edinburgh International Book Festival,

Etgar Keret

#Ninja Quotes #Translators Quotes

“I want a guy I can go hiking with, who wants to do outdoorsy stuff. It's so much fun to be out in nature and who better to do that with than the person you're dating?”
“Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it.”
“I do not have a fear of heights at all. I was the kid who would see how high I could get in the trees. I was always climbing something. But I wasnt allowed to look down; I had to step off completely blind and backwards.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I am the ambassador to the world. I use music to talk to the world - to try to unite masses. To try to spark conversations. To try and evoke legislation to change that'll really be for the people. That's behind-the-scenes kind of thing for me. And that's what the music is for me.”

Source : Source: www.hiphopcanada.com
“Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins”

Source : Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.40, Broadway Books
“Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.”
“There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.”
“Now death is death! and yet is not one death Another death? Stabbing is not the same As shooting! Would you say a strangled man Was drown'd? The end is one, the means are many, And there the difference lies!”

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