Wordgrove Post & Review

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Quoted In The Grove:
I’ve realized why I don’t tell the truth in interviews. It’s because they’re printed months later, and you change so quickly ‒ you have new thoughts, new everything ‒ so people are reading an old version of you.
~Nicholas Hoult

*IT Like, that was weird in ‘Hamlet 2,’ because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, ‘Oh, I’m not playing myself. I’m some weird version of myself.’ So as an actress, you’re always playing something, I don’t even know who I am, how could I become me? I don’t know what that is.
~Elisabeth Shue

In an interview, I lose control even of what I am, for it is the interviewer who edits me, finally, into what he thinks I am, and never have I been happy with someone else’s version of my life after that person has spent an entire two or three hours fathoming it.
~Mark Helprin

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I only have one note, let’s be honest. But I’ll play a different version of that one note.
~David Spade

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My dad was a slightly stricter version of Richard Dawkins. The worldview was that there are idiots out there who believe in Santa Claus and fairies and magic and elves, and we’re not joining that nonsense.
~Alain de Botton

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
~Emil Cioran

I love many realists but very strongly resist the notion that realism presents a less stylized, more authentic version of the world.
~Laura van den Berg

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I think it’s a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you’ll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.
~Cass Sunstein

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion.
~Harvey Milk

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
~Blaise Pascal

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My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let’s all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I’m not that kind of guy. It’s an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it’s not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.
~Billy Corgan

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door ‒ or I’ll make a door.
~Rabindranath Tagore

Let your mind see every detail of your own special version of the very best that life can be. If you could make the world exactly to your liking, consider very specifically just how that world would be. If you could spend your time doing precisely what you wish, how would the moments of your life be lived?
~Ralph Marston

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Our compulsive hunger always to know first, speak first and decide first has only been amplified by the fact that we can now all participate instantly in a virtual version of a national cocktail-party conversation on Twitter, Facebook and blogs.
~John Podhoretz

We’re on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we’re toggling between them. That’s just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed.
~Walter Kirn

You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a version of themselves in order to protect the real person.
~Steve Carell

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Nature’s patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It’s nature’s version of nature versus nurture.
~Brian Greene

Dogs have such short life spans, it’s like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like our mothers. They wait for us, watch out for us, are completely fascinated by everything we do.
~Caroline Knapp

You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
~Hal Borland

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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you’ve run delirium’s course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
~Floyd Skloot

A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road ‒ you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.
~Zadie Smith

I don’t have to play by these rules or do these things… I can actually have my own kind of version.
~Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins, WWE promoter)

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You’ve got to give your past attention, but you’ve got to forgive yourself, acknowledge what you did wrong, and be a man, taking responsibility. You can’t not fly anymore because of the things you’ve been through. You’ve got to believe in a brighter future, that better version of yourself.
~Jon Jones

Do not let yourself get in your own way. Don’t judge yourself and knock yourself down. There is enough of that out there already. Remember: you are an artist, and you bring something special to this craft. Take in notes and criticism, but don’t let them define you. Don’t try to become a watered down version of yourself.
~Valerie Azlynn

You should realize that there is only one version of yourself in the world and that your flaws make you beautiful.
~Madison Beer

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Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

My version of a good role model is everything that I have strived to become over the years, as I have a deep desire to live an honest life and give relentlessly and openly to people who look up to me.
~Dove Cameron

Use each interaction to be the best, most powerful version of yourself.
~Marianne Williamson

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Posted From The Grove

Whether it’s ‘Veep‘ or ‘Homeland’ or ‘The West Wing‘ ‒ which is a more idealised version of democracy ‒ people are fascinated by politics.
~Kevin Spacey

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
~George Jean Nathan

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Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
~Dwight D Eisenhower

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.
~David Icke (COVID related)

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
~Ayn Rand

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
~Joseph Addison

Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.
~Barack Obama

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First of all, I’m in favor of making price gouging a crime, and in fact, one the reasons I didn’t vote for the Republican House version was because there were too many breaks for the oil companies.
~Marty Meehan

For too long, our country’s version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost to drive to work, how much it will cost to keep their business running, how much it will cost to heat or cool their homes.
~Bob Beauprez

I’d call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I’m afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.
~Geraldine Ferraro

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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
~Thomas Mann

To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.
~Vaclav Klaus

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One of the problems in the Ukrainian crisis is that very few Westerners know their history, or if they know it, what they learn is what we call the Russian version of history.
~Norman Davies

According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979.
~Zbigniew Brzezinski

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The BJP brand of Hindutva was originally rooted in middle-class disenchantment with secular hypocrisies; Modi’s version is defined simply by hard-edged hatred.
~Barkha Dutt

General Zia-ul-Haq [Pakistan], a dictator and unscrupulous political actor, used Islam as a pretext for waging war in Afghanistan and adopting an aggressive stance towards India. By advancing a more orthodox version of Islam, he was able to hold on to a repressive regime and quell any opposition.
~Asma Jahangir

It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject – whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber – to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.
~Thomas Frank

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I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists’ advertising or recruiting technique.
~Elia Kazan

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.
~Oliver North

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There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.
~Bruce Cockburn (Canadian musician)

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I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.
~Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

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Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.
~Al Gore

I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second [….] administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we’ve seen in the first administration.
~Robert Reich

President Obama’s version of America is a divided one ‒ pitting us against each other based on our income level, gender, and social status. His policies have failed! We are not better off than we were 4 years ago, and no rhetoric, bumper sticker, or campaign ad can change that.
~Mia Love

Every president to hold office has espoused some version of Americanism ‒ the truths that we hold self-evident, even when those truths are not always in evidence. But for all their grand rhetoric and mostly good deeds, none was able to seal the deal on the trifecta of equality, plurality and socioeconomic ascendancy. […..] has.
~John Ridley

You would like me to say that the veil will be ripped from the voters’ eyes sometime between now and November, thereby restoring the proper version of Democracy to the House and Senate. I won’t say that, of course. The simple reason is, I don’t know.
~Gwen Ifill

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Possibly the fact that I was physically quite feeble, a relatively short little fellow, attracted me to that idea of a very authoritative and aggressive version of Conservative politics.
~John Bercow (former Speaker, House of Commons)

Volunteering has been undervalued in Britain for a long time. Often it has been seen as a kind of cut-price, amateur version of work that would be better done by the state. When politicians speak about it, people hear in the background the sound of budgets being cut.
~Jonathan Sacks

The working class of England today have no vision of society beyond the acquisitive ‒ no version of themselves or their habits as anything other than transitional, on their way up or on their way out. The working class, at best, is a waiting room for people who aim to become middle class if possible.
~Andrew O’Hagan

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Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
~Patricia Hill Collins

I’ve seen how the left has used it to accuse opponents of their version of reform of being bigots and racists.
~Marco Rubio

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Call it Camelot’s revenge: the class of court scribes who made it their profession to uphold a make-believe version of America free of conflict and ruled by noble men helped Nixon get away with it for so long ‒ because, after all, America was ruled by noble men.
~Rick Perlstein

The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet.
~G Gordon Liddy

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CBS’s Major Garrett writes in ‘National Journal’ about a new version of the ‘stray voltage’ theory of communication in which the president purposefully overstates his case knowing that it will create controversy.
~John Dickerson

I worked for Sarah Palin. I have the political staffer version of P.T.S.D., so whenever I hear that she’s breaking her silence, my heart stops.
~Nicolle Wallace

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Anti-submarine warfare is the military version of chess. You must work out what the enemy is going to do before they even think of it.
~Sarah West

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The conservative version of American exceptionalism has become a password of sorts for candidates who want to prove their credentials to a right-wing America.
~Russ Feingold

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In 2008… [Obama] was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.
~Bob Beauprez

Ireland has made its choice for the future and it has chosen the version of Irishness it will build. I know, and I will work with head and heart to be part of it with all of you in creating that future
~Michael D Higgins

We got to go one step further than even ‘Make in India.’ Let’s make India itself ‒ India 2.0, the updated version.
~Kamal Haasan

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I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show. I went and bought 100 episodes and watched them. I respect it so much that the sitcom itself and Ed Norton; I’m not playing Ed Norton but my version of it, cause I’m a black man.
~Mike Epps

How many of the original songs survive intact from the slave cabins? Probably not many in their original form. Time has transformed them like light in a prism. What we hope to present is a version of those spirituals, and they speak not just to black Americans, but to people worldwide.
~Kathleen Battle

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Growing up as a young black girl in Potomac, Maryland was easy. I had a Rainbow Coalition of friends of all ethnicities, and we would carelessly skip around our elementary school like the powerless version of Captain Planet’s Planeteers.
~Issa Rae

As a black woman who grows up in a predominantly white neighborhood, you learn how to perform a ‘good’ version of yourself. And then when you’re with your home girls, you’re saying all kinds of stuff that sounds all kinds of crazy, but you understand each other because you’re speaking the way that you’re comfortable with.
~Katori Hall

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I’ve jokingly painted some of my favorite collectors as black men, so there’s a really great portrait of David LaChapelle, the photographer ‒ my version of him ‒ that’s in his collection.
~Kehinde Wiley

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The refusal to accept that the black presence in Britain has a long and deep history is not just a symptom of racism, it is a form of racism. It is part of a rearguard and increasingly unsustainable defence of a fantasy monochrome version of British history.
~David Olusoga

‘Be faithful to your roots’ is the liberal version of ‘Stay in your ghetto.’
~Mason Cooley

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I think all good reporting is the same thing ‒ the best attainable version of the truth.
~Carl Bernstein

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
~Napoleon Bonaparte

Every time I see something about the Wild West, I’m reminded that our version of history may not be what really happened.
~James McBride

Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.
~David Icke

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If I am communicating to my readers exactly what the White House believes on any certain issue, that’s reporting to them an unvarnished, unfiltered version of what they ‒ the Administration ‒ believe.
~Jeff Gannon

I feel like I owe it to the readers to try to pull back the veil and give them the honest version of what’s going on. But it’s not more fun. If Obama, as he does sometimes already, gets a little snippy with me about something I’ve written, you’re thinking, ‘Oh God, the president of the United States is already annoyed with me.’
~Maureen Dowd

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It is possible to take the story of Noah figuratively, although virtually every Near East ancient civilization has its own version of the flood story (including the amoral epic of Gilgamesh).
~Ben Shapiro

One of the great challenges of being a modern historian is interviewing multiple people who were all there for something, some event. No one’s version matches up 100% with other people’s, even if it’s three or four people on a conference call.
~David Garrow

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I just feel that I don’t agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that’s sensationalized.
~Bernadine Dohrn (the Irish question)

If you are a great news organization, you can’t have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
~Carl Bernstein

The authorized biographers ‒ the ones hand-picked to write the sanitized version of a subject’s life ‒ sit up front with the swells while the unauthorized biographer who writes without access or approval gets elbowed to the back of the bus.
~Kitty Kelley

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I really like to read when I’m eating ‒ ‘The New York Times‘ or the ‘Wall Street Journal,’ paper version.
~Kevin Nealon

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~Strangelove: English version (14:07) a lesson, a meditation, a story based on poker

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~Paul; Del Vecchio: Interview With An Applicant (3:53) sketch comedy inversion

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~onemed iamusic: The Four Yorkshiremen Sketch (3:36) antique British humor, a diversion

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Bill Gates is a very rich man today… and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
~Dave Barry

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Building a house from scratch in the middle of a field is a bit like building a prototype car. As with all prototypes, if you’re building a car you usually have the luxury of producing several prototypes before you arrive at the production line version ‒ so the opportunity for changing things is quite rich.
~Kevin McCloud

You’ve got to stay super focused on shipping product. There isn’t a version two or three if there isn’t a great version one.
~Brendan Iribe

The mistake isn’t releasing something bad. The mistake is to launch it and get PR people involved. You don’t want people to start amping up expectations for an early version of your product. The best entrepreneurship happens in low-stakes environments where no one is paying attention, like Mark Zuckerberg’s dorm room at Harvard.
~Eric Ries

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When it comes to consumer electronics, I’m a big fat sucker, because even though I know you should never, ever buy anything until the second version of it is released, I just can’t resist. I live in a state of perpetual Beta.
~Susan Orlean

Accept that the moment you buy your latest iPad, iPhone, tablet, app or game it will be promptly followed by a vastly improved and sleeker looking version.
~Simon Mainwaring

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When you drill down, blockchains are really a shared version of reality everyone agrees on. So whether it’s a fully immersive VR experience, augmented reality, or even Bitcoin or Ethereum in the physical world as a shared ledger for our ‘real world,’ we’ll increasingly trust blockchains as our basis for reality.
~Fred Ehrsam

In truth, the best Bitcoin can hope for is to be a second-rate version of gold, if that.
~Andrew Ross Sorkin

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My supplements are similar to my training ‒ I always commit to being a better version of myself.
~Ronnie Coleman

Training is a part of being the best version of yourself and you need to be the best version of yourself to be successful.
~Bugzy Malone

To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I’ve been living my own version of success since the early ’90s when I first got signed. I haven’t had a job since then.
~Juliana Hatfield (singer/song writer)

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And, not only in Budapest. I worked very closely with a very powerful government organization, which shall remain unidentified, to develop the mass marketed version of the Cube.
~Erno Rubik

I don’t think there’s a… boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.
~Bill Gates

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There’s only one side with me. You get the right side. You get the correct version of the facts.
~Kevin O’Leary (Mr Wonderful)

With ‘Back to the Future‘, time-traveling lets you go back to a better, more comfortable life where your parents are happy and you have a lot of money ‒ the capitalistic version of time travel.
~Celine Sciamma

I learned to see myself and my role as a capitalist… as somebody who’s trying to harness, for myself and for society, the power of greed and the power of the will to acquire into something that makes the world a better place. That’s the version of capitalism that we want.
~Guy Spier

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When you see a merger between two giants in a declining industry, it can look like the financial version of a couple having a baby to save a marriage.
~Adam Davidson

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Clearly, there are many places where diesel is king or gas-turbine is king, or IC engines will win, but there are many places in the world where, as we’ve seen, they just won’t do the job. The modern version of the Stirling engine has some very, very attractive characteristics, and we’re trying to optimize it for some of those applications.
~Dean Kamen

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.
~George Lucas

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This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize.
~Timothy Geithner

The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable, because Earth has already reached the tipping point. ‘The General Strike‘ attempts to personalize these issues and encourage listeners to look for a new model.
~Justin Sane

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Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.
~Guy Kawasaki

My favorite video game of all time is called ‘Black Tiger‘. It’s a Capcom Dungeons and Dragons game from 1987. I have the actual arcade version sitting in my office.
~Ernest Cline

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Mandy Rose is basically an exaggerated version of myself. It’s all about confidence. She’s a bit of a mean girl and ‘I’m prettier than you and better than you.’ I’m not quite like that in real life.
~Mandy Rose (WWE)

Tully was the first young, handsome, cocky, well-dressed bad guy. He was our version of Ric Flair before I knew who Ric Flair was. This was before cable TV or any of that, and Tully was our Ric Flair.
~Shawn Michaels (WWE)

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You don’t have to go out there and fit the mold of what a quarterback is supposed to be. Make your own mold and do the best at each role. If you can run with the best and throw with the best, you can be the best quarterback in your own version of the position.
~Robert Griffin III

You get such a visceral thrill driving a race car. You think you’ve driven, and then you’re like, ‘Oh, I was doing something for 20 years that I didn’t realize I hadn’t experienced the real version of.’
~Tom Segura

Hockey historians say the handshake dates to English settlers in Canada, who preached an upper-class version of sportsmanship in the 19th century. Soon, tough kids in urban and prairie rinks began imitating imagined dukes and earls of the old country.
~George Vecsey

My favourite game is wiffle ball, a fake version of baseball with a plastic ball and bat that’s really for kids.
~Ty Burrell

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I believe that one version of the good in life can be defined by the moments I sometimes had playing tennis as a sixteen-year-old. You’d be out on the court and for an hour, two hours, sometimes an entire roasting hot day, and every single thing you hit would go in. Hit that ball as hard as you wanted, wherever you wanted, and it went in.
~Atul Gawande

We ship a new version of Google Play Services every six weeks. Typically, 90 percent of users are on the new version of that.
~Sundar Pichai

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I believe that one of the secret engines that allows cinema to work, and have the marvelous power over us that it does, is the fact that for thousands of years we have spent eight hours every night in a ‘cinematic’ dream-state, and so are familiar with this version of reality.
~Walter Murch

There are millions of Americans who belong by nature in movie theaters as they belong at political rallies or in fortuneteller parlors and on the shoot-the-chutes. To these millions, the movies are a sort of boon ‒ a gaudier version of religion.
~Ben Hecht

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There’s always going to be that pressure when you’re in front of the camera. When you’re famous it’s just an extreme version of reality and there’s a pressure to look a certain way.
~Geri Halliwell

A lot of big studio films, which are fun and great, tend to have a formula, and you’ve seen it before, and it’s a new version of it.
~Malin Akerman

There came a point in time when Michael was under a great deal of pressure to alter the film in a way that was just disturbing to him. I had not seen the movie, yet. He phoned me in July of ’92 to look at his version.
~Madeleine Stowe (The Last of The Mohicans)

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I was briefly in the original version of ‘Tombstone,’ but I didn’t make the final cut because that movie went through a couple of different permutations.
~Joshua Jackson

Watching the completed version of The Two Towers for example, I was very conscious of scenes ‒ sometimes whole sequences ‒ that I had seen being filmed or edited but which hadn’t made it into the final cut.
~Brian Sibley

See, the ‘On the Road’ that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody – ‘You must live life this way’ – and these guys were bored.
~Garrett Hedlund

Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they’re watching isn’t the original.
~Todd Solondz
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It’s a big part of what we do ‒ we test our movies extensively. I’m always there myself. It’s sometimes difficult to sit through, especially if it’s a version of the movie that’s not working particularly well.
~Bobby Farrelly

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I feel close to Lloyd in ‘Say Anything‘. He was like a super-interesting version of me. Only I’m not as good as him. Whatever part of me is romantic and optimistic, I reached into that to play Lloyd.
~John Cusack

When you’re playing a romantic version of a real person, you’re playing a version of the truth.
~Andrea Riseborough

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Milan Kundera was my literature professor. He’s a Francophile, so he made us read French novels like ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses,’ which I made a version of many years later as ‘Valmont.’
~Milos Forman

I think any writer coming on to ‘Batman‘ should at least attempt to do their own definitive version. What it means to them. Whatever they think that symbol or character can say.
~Grant Morrison

I’ll do any kind of movie, as long as it’s a good version of it.
~Mark Duplass

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‘Point Omega‘ starts in an art gallery, where an unnamed man is watching, day after day, a 24-hour version of ‘Psycho,’ an installation that was created by the Scottish artist, Douglas Gordon. In it, the events and the minutiae of Hitchcock’s film are painfully slowly reproduced; the watcher is obsessed with the detail revealed.
~Justin Cartwright

The original ‘Edge of Darkness‘ was fantastic, a fabulous series. It was of its time, but this film version shows that times really haven’t changed.
~Ray Winstone

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Telling Alan Turing’s story in a two-hour film was a tremendous challenge. It felt in some small way like our filmmaking version of breaking the enigma code.
~Graham Moore

That’s right; I was watching ‘From Russia With Love‘, one of my favourite Bond movies, and suddenly thought that I’d love to see a version of this from Tatiana Romanova’s point of view. Or, better yet; what if she was the hero? What if this was her story, and Bond was just a side character?
~Antony Johnston (Lady Dimitrescu)

The stoic drama ‘A Somewhat Gentle Man‘ is photographed in a palate of steel gray tones that match Stellan Skarsgard’s complexion. It’s a low-blood-pressure version of the kind of thing James M. Cain used to do in his sleep, and its filmmaking accomplishment is as minimalist as its narrative ambition is minimal.
~Elvis Mitchell

‘Ida‘ doesn’t set out to explain history. That’s not what it’s about. The story is focused on very concrete and complex characters who are full of humanity with all its paradoxes. They’re not pawns used to illustrate some version of history or an ideology.
~Pawel Pawlikowski

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I was traumatized by the cartoon version of ‘The Hobbit [1977].’ It’s not supposed to be scary, I don’t think, but literally I think that’s the most scared I’ve ever been.
~Emily Meade

Mike Mignola’s ‘Hellboy‘ was influenced by Lovecraft big time. He wanted to make his monsters Lovecraftian. But I think many other films have been influenced by Lovecraft – like ‘Alien,’ which is almost an outer-space version of ‘At The Mountains Of Madness.’
~Guillermo del Toro

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The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism that she had to do what the white man told her because it was good for her… She is Molly. (Rabbit-Proof Fence)
~Phillip Noyce

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I’d love to do a movie with females in it, and not necessarily the female version of ‘The Hangover,’ but I’d love to. If I did it it’d star Juliette Lewis, because she’s the funniest woman in the world. She’s my favorite actress on the planet. If we did a character-based comedy about women, I don’t see it out of my range.
~Todd Phillips

If you want to do a female version of ‘The Expendables,’ I’ll be in that one.
~Pierce Brosnan

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I think you’re attracted to things that are different from yourself in a character because it’s more interesting, and you get to play out a fantasy version of yourself.
~Felicity Jones

I do love playing aristocrats, probably because it’s so against type. So much more interesting than playing a version of yourself.
~Keeley Hawes

You see, my version of why anyone would want to become an actor is that it’s some psychological fixation, something that happened in puberty that you didn’t outgrow in time, which is normal. Nevertheless, if you make it a profession, it can be really neurotic.
~Christoph Waltz

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A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I’m not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.
~Matthew Fox

There’s something grounded about ‘Ugly Americans,’ so I think it’s good that I’m playing a version of myself in these elevated cartoon circumstances.
~Natasha Leggero

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I probably wouldn’t make a good accountant. I don’t even understand what my accountant tells me. But the character is a sort of exaggerated version of me, he’s a little more frightened than I am, everything seems so much bigger to him than it does to me.
~Matthew Broderick

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Most people don’t know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor… But I’ve performed in several Shakespeare productions including Hamlet, except in this version, Hamlet lives in an apartment with two women, and has to pretend he’s gay so that the landlord won’t evict him.
~John Ritter

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I I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it’s all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.
~Dakota Fanning

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The tsar of War and Peace, especially in the BBC version, is a complete popinjay and a useless character. The real tsar, Alexander I, had an amazing career.
~Simon Sebag Montefiore

My version of Superman is essentially of a guy who has spent his whole life alone.
~Henry Cavill

My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan’s ‘The Browning Version,’ where my job was to make school-masters’ wives weep with recognition.
~Benedict Cumberbatch

My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.
~Jack Dee

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Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it’s not. It’s for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it’s just the most extreme version of that that I’ve ever found. It’s like running, it’s exertion.
~Kristen Stewart

Sometimes I can receive the world and regurgitate my version of events easily and sometimes it’s hard.
~Andrea Riseborough

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The thing about Spike Lee… that’s a deep experience to work with someone who is that intense and knows their vision that well. The character I play in ‘Red Hook Summer‘ is super country and super loud. I suppose he is some version of myself.
~Jon Batiste

I’m so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He’s an amazing director and I can’t wait to see the long version.
~Orlando Bloom

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If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version.
~Walter Hill

I figure if it’s turns out well the film will have its own momentum and will carry into the video release. So it’s hard to really picture the DVD version when I’m in production.
~Jay Roach

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~Guizz Arts: Version Originale (8:30) gaming for movie rights, subtitled

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~Diane Louise Salinger: French Version (2:40) reliving losing Joan of Arc

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~Omeleto: Where Have You Been (9:26) version of what might have been

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~Omeleto: GOOD NIGHT (8:20) just because

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American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Most of the time it doesn’t work; obviously, in the case of ‘The Office,’ it did. But a lot of times, it doesn’t really work.
~Chris Hardwick

I like ‘The Office.’ I particularly like the British version with Ricky Gervais. Of course, I liked the ‘Seinfeld‘ show a lot. I thought that was an awfully good show.
~Dick Van Dyke

Obviously, I love Japanese food. My favorite TV show of all time, without exception, is ‘Iron Chef.’ Not the stupid American version; ‘Iron Chef‘ Japanese; the real one, the one that was on in Japan… my DVR for years was set to record almost every single ‘Iron Chef‘ episode.
~Tucker Max

I hate ‘The Voice.’ I think everyone thought ‘The Voice U.K.’ would be like the U.S. version, and it’s not.
~Louis Walsh

Some version of ‘Deal or No Deal‘ airs in 120 countries. And they play it exactly the same way, with models and briefcases. It crosses language and culture and gender, because it’s the simplest game in the world, and everyone wants to press their luck.
~Howie Mandel

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There’s a series of children’s books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl. I hope to start directing it.
~Barry Sonnenfeld

I was really so excited when it came back on air and I saw all three of the actors who played ‘Doctor Who‘ in the new version and they’ve all been absolutely brilliant in their own special way, as all the Doctors always are.
~Sophie Aldred

Remember the diner in ‘Happy Days?’ I do want to do a show like that. But an updated version.
~Flavor Flav

With a lot of shows, what you’ll see happen is they start off really well, and they’re very original, but they become sort of a version of themselves. They stand outside the show… they become a cliche of the show they once were. That’s the whole ‘jumping the shark’ thing.
~Peter Dinklage

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I’m quite shy. Television presents an amplified version of yourself. When I’m on camera I’m pumping more adrenaline, I’m being a bit more engaging than I am in everyday conversation, but that’s normal, isn’t it? Otherwise nobody would want to watch.
~Kevin McCloud

For me, there’s no dichotomy between being shy or a performer, because I think it’s more a way of slightly presenting a version of things to the world.
~Julian Barratt

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Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get the audience, after seeing this version, to pick up the book and read it themselves. My attitude is that TV can never really be any form of art, because it serves audience expectations.
~Michael Haneke

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So we’re considering doing a new Christmas album, because there’s been Christmas episodes since then, and maybe finally do the version of ‘The Most Offensive Song Ever‘ with lyrics intact.
~Trey Parker

Radio 4 Extra is the network which offers the broadcasting version of eternal life.
~David Hepworth (BBC archive entertainment network, digital radio)

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There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there… watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years… Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.
~Bruce Campbell

I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.
~Peter Davison

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Artists ‒ musicians, painters, writers, poets ‒ always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
~Billy Joel

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they’re trying to write about. They have music.
~Thom Yorke

There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.
~John Baldacci

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An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes ‒ and as with memes in their original version.
~Richard Dawkins

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I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I’m attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn’t quite what I’m seeing – taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I’ve never seen before.
~Quentin Tarantino

Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach of most people, so they are watching a pretty hi tech version of whatever you’ve done.
~Ridley Scott

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I often take things I find in vintage crawls and hand them to a very good seamstress, who then replicates them and makes a more robust version in different colors, with a pocket for my mic pack.
~Marina (of The Diamonds)

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If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it’s a small version of the whole building; that’s why, like dating the backbones of a dinosaur, a good historian can look at a detail of a Gothic building and tell you exactly what the rest of the building was, and infer the whole from the parts.
~Charles Jencks

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As an artist I’m very aware of what I call Picasso-napkin syndrome ‒ I’ve got this 20th century version of the midas touch, where if I do a little doodle it’s worth money!
~Grayson Perry

Everything I do is part of my passion. I do the things I like to do. It’s sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby. I love to play piano, sing, and act. I love to do all those things.
~Harry Connick, Jr

If you’ve done a brilliant version it becomes something else.
~Kenneth Branagh

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I’m named after a horse. My mom’s best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested ‘Brooklyn’ as a more formal version, and it just stuck – and now I live in Brooklyn part-time, so go figure.
~Brooklyn Decker

I feel like I’m a much better person when I’m developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I’m just working on my analytical mind.
~Brit Marling

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I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called ‘Goose and Tomtom‘ by David Rabe, and somebody saw it and the next thing I know I’m doing the table read of the film version of ‘Glengarry Glen Ross‘ with Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon ‒ one of the great films of our generation.
~Richard Schiff

We’re trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. It’s going to be similar to the story of how I got discovered. Kinda like my own version of ‘8 Mile.’
~Justin Bieber

All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of ‘Dynasty?’ No thanks!
~Sade Adu

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Even on the stage, I’ve played a bit of a persona, and the persona I played was a much brasher, more arrogant, less aware, less educated version of me.
~Ricky Gervais

I’m a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.
~Usher

Stiles is a version of me that rarely exists in the real world. He’s so confident and extroverted, and I’m much more restrained and internal.
~Dylan O’Brien

Especially, I don’t want to ever be compared to The Rock because I’d be the poor man’s version of The Rock. I’m just not him; it’s not who I am as a person or as a performer. The Rock’s very big and bold, and I’m not.
~Dave Bautista

Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.
~Jason Ritter

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I’m used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don’t have much time to get to know me.
~Halsey

It’s exciting to have a role in anything that’s Claymation, just because you’re always intrigued by what a clay wizard version of yourself would be.
~John Oliver

When I’m not working, I want to be the version of the person that I was born to be. I was born with curly hair. It fits my personality, and it’s totally who I am. I am rough around the edges, and I am not a polished girl.
~Erin Wasson

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I guess people feel like they kind of know me. The game developer me, or the Twitter persona, that’s Notch. It’s a censored version. The real me is Markus.
~Markus Persson (game designer)

I don’t feel like I’m in competitive with anybody. If I’m worried about beating somebody else, I’m not going to be the best version of me. It shouldn’t be a competition because somebody else winning is not going to make me lose.
~Megan Thee Stallion

Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don’t have that stuff, it’s kind of a one dimensional version of it.
~Zack Snyder

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Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.
~Judy Garland.

I’m just trying to be the best version of Trey Young.
~Trey Young

Be the best version of yourself rather than a bad copy of someone else!
~Conchita Wurst

Try to really focus in on what makes you the best version of you.
~Julius Randle

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.
~Seth Godin

I don’t stress about the outcome because I know the only thing I have control over is my own hard work. So long as I’m being honest about that and striving to be the best version of myself, I’m happy.
~Kiara Advani

The power you have is to be the best version of yourself you can be…
~Ashley Rickards

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§ MUSIC:

Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made a three-minute record they would make you do an edited version for radio, particularly in America.
~Pete Townshend

That’s what records do: represent a compressed, heightened version of the sound. Because of the compression of the tubes and microphones and the wax, it’s magic!
~Ry Cooder

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My private joke about ‘Luke Cage‘ is that it’s a bulletproof version of ‘Lemonade,’ and that, essentially, it’s a concept album that has a video component.
~Cheo Hodari Coker

There’s no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.
~Stephen Malkmus

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After months of playing air guitar to ‘Free Bird‘, what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of ‘Star Spangled Banner‘ and ‘Purple Haze.’ My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, ‘I’m going to get a guitar.’
~Kirk Hammett (Metallica)

For my 23rd birthday, I received a nylon string guitar. I told myself that if I could play Eric Clapton’s ‘Tears In Heaven,’ then I could play the guitar. I practised every chance I got, driving my housemates insane, until several weeks later I had a shaky version of the song down. I wrote my first song on the guitar a few weeks after that.
~Neil Jackson

I don’t have a favorite song that I’ve written. But I do have a favorite song: ‘Always on My Mind,’ the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.
~BB King

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I’ve never been one for doing remixes. Then I’ve gotta decide which version am I gonna be tonight: country Carrie or pop Carrie? I’d rather just make country music that anybody can get into no matter what they listen to.
~Carrie Underwood

I think differently, I think it’s about reaching everybody on every different plane and every different level, and if I could remix the song and do a dance remix, that’s great. If I could do a classical version, that’ll be great too. It’s all just about expression.
~Deborah Cox

My opinion is that music is music. As long as you approach doing a remix with truth, I don’t see the dance remixes being any different than an hip-hop remix‒ it’s really a different version of the song.
~Deborah Cox

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For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She’s a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the ’80s. Back then it was so gay and so punk in so many ways…
All this fashion stuff ‒ who’s cool now ‒ is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.
~Beth Ditto

Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk.
~Marc Jacobs

Rave music sounds like an electronic disco version of ’30s Universal monster movies.
~Mojo Nixon

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If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen’s music to Australia it would be this: don’t let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don’t let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.
~Wayne Swan

I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style.
~Nellie McKay

I was five years old, onstage singing ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star‘ ‒ a rock version ‒ and I was always wanting to entertain. But the biggest thing for me is just country music has helped me get through the worst times of my life and the best times of my life. I want to give that back to people.
~Jana Kramer

Rebecca Black might sing like a robot, but that’s just proof she has evolved beyond us. Her vocal is just a slightly exaggerated version of the robot glitch-twitch stutter that’s been mainstream pop vocalese for the past 10 years or so.
~Rob Sheffield

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I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content.
~Ken Burns

When I write a tune and it’s been like this for many years ‒ I always hear in the back of my head some sort of vague, orchestrated, fully fleshed-out big-band version of the song with other parts going on.
~John Scofield

I’m a big techno fan. I love that thumping kick drum. We heard a version of ‘Lost in Love’ and it was thrash metal. It sounded cool!
~Graham Russell

*IT ‘Cry Baby‘ is like this fairytale version of me. A lot of it is based on real events, and some of it is made up to make it more whimsical.
~Melanie Martinez

Years ago, I was performing, and people kept calling out for ‘Puppy Love‘ and I just didn’t want to. Then I thought I’d have some fun, so we did this insane heavy metal version of it. The applause was polite… I am fine with ‘Puppy Love.’ I hated it for a while. But I still sing it. I have a country version, a sexy version and a cheesy nightclub version. I am trying to infuse it with maturity. I will never escape that song. I will always be Mr. ‘Puppy Love.’
~Donny Osmond

(Paul Anka wrote, sings, and lip syncs in this early version of Puppy Love. The Top 10 list on the board behind the announcer surprises with the songs from Feb, 1960. ~Ed Note)

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I’m the Nickelodeon version of DangerMouse.
~Bruno Mars

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I’ve also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.
~Alanis Morissette

I mistakably paid respect and condolences to the wrong Beastie Boy member King Ad-Rock when it should have been MCA. In light of this, I am redoing the song ‘Hip Hop Speaks From Heaven‘ and I am pulling the original version off of my digital release. Historical accuracy is extremely important to me, so I accept all responsibility for this error.
~KRS-One

When you are playing somebody who did exist, and there is good source material on them, whether it is a biography or archives or experts, you would be stupid not to delve into them. But there is a point in the process where you leave the books alone, and instead, you focus on the script and creating your version.
~Andrew Gower

If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
~J K Simmons

Five or six songs leaked from the original version of ‘Encore.’ So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.
~Eminem

I’m glad I can present a polished version of myself when it counts.
~Carrie Underwood

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The Rolling Stones are so versatile, they’re like the band version of that Infinite Dress they sell on QVC.
~Diablo Cody

Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance concoctions such as Paris Hilton, Flavor Flav, and Hulk Hogan’s biohazard clan of bleached specimens provide endless hours of death-hastening diversion.
~James Wolcott

I think there are rock stars within every subgenre, and for people who are obsessed with musical theater Sutton Foster and Audra MacDonald are like Beyonce to them. I’m sure the a cappella world has their own version of that, and that exists in every geeky subculture.
~Anna Kendrick

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Because they’re my stories, they’re my version of events of the past three years. But I really hope people can hear their own stories within the songs and they can become our version of events.
~Emeli Sande

George Benson’s ‘This Masquerade‘ is my favorite version of Leon Russell’s blue gem.
~Alice Ripley

‘She’s Dynamite‘ was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n’ roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n’ roll.
~BB King

*IT I’ll tell you what I really loved: the version of ‘Somebody to Love‘ that was in ‘Happy Feet.’ That was fantastic.
~Roger Taylor

Steve Howe met Paul Simon and said that Paul was very approving of our version of ‘America.’
~Chris Squire (YES)

‘I Want To Hold Your Hand‘ is a great classic by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, I sure love that song. I did like the classic version, a rock-oriented song, then someone heard me do it with the Grant Green approach – Grant Green and Larry Young did it, with a bossa nova beat on the funky side.
~George Benson

Jim Morrison’s very good looking, but I don’t like this version of the song. The Feliciano version is better.
~Maurice Gibb (Light My Fire)

The key to me is being different not for the sake of being different, but being the most authentic version of what you do. And definitely it takes a willingness to be different, because there was resistance for me early on, and I feel like that’s usually the case when there’s a certain paradigm or trend happening, and you step outside of that.
~Sam Hunt (a remix)

‘The Christmas Song,’ by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I’ve never sung it, because Nat’s version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.
~Harry Connick, Jr

I would love to play ‘Funny Girl’ or ‘Evita,’ but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don’t know if there needs to be another version of those shows.
~Idina Menzel

We don’t need another Woody. Even Bob Dylan knew he couldn’t be Woody Guthrie… I like Woody Guthrie fine, but I don’t need the 50th generation version of it.
~Buzz Osborne

There’s a lot of integrity with musicians; you really still aspire to grow, and be great, to be the best version of yourself you can be.
~Sheryl Crow

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I even done a doo-wop version of the Mickey Mouse march.
~Aaron Neville

I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of almost stand-up comedy material. Just the juxtaposition of the different styles in itself sometimes is funny. Like, I do sort of an acoustic version of ‘Purple Haze‘ that has some bluegrass licks in it.
~Eugene Chadbourne (multi-instrumentalist)

I just didn’t expect an acoustic version of Rock’n’Roll All Nite
~Ace Frehley

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Music television is all about the media-oriented version of what it is to be a rock star; it’s not about what Bob Dylan or Jimi Hendrix were about ‒ which included great images, sure, but they had spiritual and political and revolutionary content, too.
~Patti Smith

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My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner and play Portuguese folk songs on it. I couldn’t wait for him to finish so I could get my hands on it. I was seven or eight years old. And he used to have a Fender amp in his house and an electric guitar. I would spend hours making sounds.
~Joe Perry

When I was young, I was offered my first recording contract in 1971 and was offered quite a bit of money if I would change my character and be a ’70s version of Cher.
~Patti Smith

It’s not that I’m trying to write another ‘7 Years‘ or a new version of ‘Mama Said.’ Songs just kind of come out of nowhere, and you need to catch them when they do.
~Lukas Forchhammer [of Lukas Graham]

Five or six songs leaked from the original version of ‘Encore.’ So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.
~Eminem

*IT I’m writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother Bear score side of things, I’ve brought into the new Tarzan songs. Thinking outside just guitar, bass, drums and keyboards.
~Phil Collins

I now have a home recording studio, which I can operate entirely on my own, as well as a portable version of the same which allows me to record anywhere I like and simply swap out the hard drives for use in the home studio.
~Clint Black

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I started crying, because there’s nothing like hearing that the artist who originally did the song likes your version.
~Kelly Rowland

In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.
~Les Baxter

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Versions Disguised As Covers

~Beethoven: Ode to Joy • “Hans-Sachs”-Choir/Philharmonic Orchestra of Nuremberg (6:30) quiet start builds to a crescendo, with attending shivers

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~Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah • Allie Sherlock (5:04) why street music sometimes feels more lived in

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~Beatles: Something (4:44) deleted scene from the movie, Yesterday

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The House of the Rising Son • The House on Cliff (5:02) rooftop performance, in two words

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~John Newton: Amazing Grace • Dan Vasc (5:09) metal goes gospel

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~Jimmy Dorsey: I Remember You • Ariana Stefanidis (3:48) as jazz would have it

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~Paul Anka wrote a song for, and about, Mr Sinatra: My Way (4:49) a surprisingly stern performance

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~Radiohead: Creep • Pub Choir (4:15) all together now

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~Bill Withers: Ain’t No Sunshine • Elise LeGrow (3:25) stylish, with grey loss and darkness in evidence

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~Beatles: With a little help from my friends • Meja and the Peace Conspiracy (5:22) Joe Cocker worthy rendition

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~Simon and Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Waters • KBS Kpop (5:03) from slow sweet current to rousing, barely bridgeable torrent

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~Beatles: In My Life • Madison Cunningham w/ Mike Viola (3:21) adds a twist, a musical lilt to the melody

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~George Gershwin: Summertime • Joanne Shaw Taylor w/ Joe Bonamassa (5:47) guitars can sing too

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~Beatles: Yesterday • Hope Winter (3:51) starts a song, ends a story

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Each couple’s version of intimacy is so fascinating to me. A friend will tell me about her marriage, and I’ll think, ‘Yikes, they have horrible communication! They’re going to get divorced!’ And then I’ll hear about them at another time and think, ‘Wow, they love each other so much!’
~Miranda July

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Exes are like our old diaries‒they know the whole truth and the unedited version of you. If you can still attain their respect after the relationship you must have done something well.
~Nontobeko Sibiya

The thing is that love gives us a ringside seat on somebody else’s flaws, so of course you’re gonna spot some things that kinda need to be mentioned. But often the romantic view is to say, ‘If you loved me, you wouldn’t criticise me.’ Actually, true love is often about trying to teach someone how to be the best version of themselves.
~Alain de Botton

It’s just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.
~Matt Damon

I truly believe that when you’ve found the one you’re searching for, you become a better version of yourself. You’re better for it.
~Hunter Hayes

I have always believed that love is what helps you develop into the best person you are. It’s a selfless emotion, but people usually follow the corrupted version.
~Asin

I think one great tip is that you should always love yourself. If you don’t love yourself, take care of yourself, cater to yourself and that little inner voice, you will really not be very worthy of being with someone else, because you won’t be the best version of you.
~Kimora Lee Simmons

I’m on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself.
~Kyle Shewfelt

One can only hope the person you love will make you the best version of yourself.
~Mia Maestro

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Jealousy – that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
~Emile M Cioran

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There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of people who are kind of some percentage or some version of that.
~Michael Stipe

What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.
~Andrew Sullivan

I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I’m interested in sex as a way of communication, I’m not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene.
~Maggie Gyllenhaal

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In any relationship that comes to an end, there’s never just a baseline reason why. You say, ‘Oh, I broke up with my girlfriend.’ Someone says, ‘Why?’ You say, ‘Well, you got three hours? And then maybe after I tell you my version, you’ve got to talk to her.’
~Michael Rapaport

I don’t know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me.
~Michelle Williams

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In Los Angeles, parenting is a competitive sport. From Beverly Hills baby boutiques to kids’ yoga classes, L.A. fuses high style, industrial-strength materialism, and parental outsourcing into our own unique version of child-rearing.
~Shawn Amos

My first trip abroad was to do a TV version of ‘Les Miserables‘ in France with Anthony Perkins. There I was at 12 acting with the guy from ‘Psycho.’ My parents were teachers, and it was hard for them to relate to that world.
~Dexter Fletcher

I think it’s a very dangerous game to play when you assume that just because someone’s an entertainer, they’re automatically a role model. Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren’t there to teach your children the lessons that you haven’t bothered to teach them at home yourself. They’re just doing their own version of entertaining.
~Wentworth Miller

My path to motherhood was challenging, to say the least, and I always feel like I’m living a ‘Sliding Doors‘ [double] version of my life.
~Renee Elise Goldsberry

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I don’t know… part of, I suppose, my way out of everything, has been really taking care of myself. I think that comes from an awareness that my children really need me, and they need me to be the healthiest version of myself that I can possibly be.
~Kate Winslet

The challenging part of parenting for me is to make sure that an individual person is an individual and not some sort of cookie-cutter version of me. At the same time, I want to make sure that I impart my sense of the world as an adult.
~Jamie Lee Curtis

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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
~Natalie Portman

Grandmothers hold a special place in our hearts. They spoil us, spend quality time, and teach us important lessons. They’re the fun version of our parents.
~Craig Ruvere

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If you… scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group of little boys, they are more like a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be.
~William Golding

I guess you just feel like there’s a whole story that’s not being told in movies. You’re only seeing the macho guy version of a story that from the woman’s side, may be completely different.
~Heather Graham

Social media is all about presenting the happiest, most positive version of yourself to the world. I’m here to say that we all have bad days and that it’s easy to feel isolated ‒ but the truth is that beneath the sassy facade all girls suffer from the same insecurities.
~Carrie Hope Fletcher

I definitely understand not entirely fitting in. I think everyone has their own version of feeling out of place and I think one of the great things we have the ability to do is to know it’s all right. It’s OK to have that awkward phase.
~Rumer Willis

Many girls aspire to a version of selfhood that puts a psychological glass ceiling on their potential to succeed. They suffer from what I call the Curse of the Good Girl: the pressure to be liked by everyone, generous to a fault, and flawless at everything you do.
~Rachel Simmons

As women, many of us have internalised our lives as a prolonged version of boot camp, a sort of Darwinian call to toughen up or perish. As young women, we are terrified that men we consider our mentors can turn out to be monsters.
~Barkha Dutt

My body doesn’t have a lot of curves; I have small breasts, I don’t have hips ‒ so I’m not going to try to make myself something that I’m not. I’m just going to try to be the best version of myself.
~Sara Sampaio

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We all have our vanities. The retouching magazines like ‘Vogue‘ do is the professional version of the retouching we do when we, for example, apply Instagram filters to the pictures we take and share on our social networks.
~Roxane Gay

I watch people, friends of mine, and see how they portray themselves online and I find interesting that it’s kind of a hyper-real version of yourself, how you’d like to be seen, in a way.
~Trent Reznor

When we’re in game worlds, I believe that many of us become the best version of ourselves: the most likely to help at a moment’s notice. The most likely to stick with a problem as long as it takes. To get up after failure and try again.
~Jane McGonigal

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One of my friends started a company in 1997, seven years before Facebook, called SocialNet. And they had all these ideas, and you could be, like, a cat, and I’d be a dog on the Internet, and we’d have this virtual reality, and we would just not be ourselves. That didn’t work because reality always works better than any fake version of it.
~Peter Thiel

All my friends call me ‘Gogi’ because that’s the short version for Goran.
~Goran Dragic

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I’ll come up with an idea for a character, and I’ll write some jokes and make sure that that character is going to have some legs to it ‒that it’s really going to work. If I can come up with jokes and material that I think will work, then I make a cheap version of the doll. Achmed started out just being this little plastic toy from the store.
~Jeff Dunham

Sometimes an actor will stumble on the joke, and I’m right on them. Back it up before the audience hears the bad version of the joke, because humor is 90% surprise. If they know what’s coming, they won’t laugh as hard.
~James Burrows

I think a theater show is a pure version of me doing my material. The theater crowd is a bit more polite, there really aren’t hecklers, and there are a lot of people there to see me, and they’re excited about the jokes and hanging out with me for a show.
~Anthony Jeselnik

We then took a shortened version of what we’d been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success.
~Neil Innes

For years, I was watching other people have so much fun playing out their version of authorship, like Louis C.K. and Larry David. As I watched them do their thing, I began to pine for the days when I had a lot less expected of me and, often, a lot more creative freedom. The courage that those guys have is always captivating to me.
~Jon Favreau

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Not being dead is my version of partying. So far, so good.
~Andrew W K

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I would like to say this for the record: that I am not trying to lose weight or gain weight. I am just trying to be the best version of myself, and that’s really important.
~Huma Qureshi

Don’t compare yourself with someone else’s version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burns the most calories.
~Caroline Rhea

There is no picturesque version of what self-care looks like; it’s different for every person who wants to practice it.
~Jenna Wortham

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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that’s not how it is for me. When I’m over 200 pounds, that’s when I’m the most confident version of myself.
~Garrett Hedlund

To be anorexic…she thought, amounted to wanting to shed yourself of some of the imperfect mosaic of pieces that made you who you were. She could understand that now for, maybe underneath that desquamated self you would locate a new version.
~Meg Wolizer

I’m on my version of the protein diet, but there ain’t no protein in it. It’s a Krispy Kreme doughnut between two Cinnabons. And you soak it overnight in Red Bull. Then you chase it with a Snickers.
~J B Smoove

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
~Barbara Ehrenreich

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All Southern cooks have tried their hands at shrimp and grits, and each one has his or her own version of the dish. My mom used to season her shrimp with garlic and onion and just prepare the grits with a little salt and pepper.
~Gina Neely

I’ve got a beautiful kitchen, which looks like a ’60s version of space, with silver chrome, orange glass work surfaces, and brown leather, and it’s entirely visual and has little function. I’ve hardly got any knives, and there’s only one wooden spoon and one saucepan. But I think I’ve got a cheese grater, so that’s good.
~Noel Fielding

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I have a lot of secret uses for sour cream, which is the magic ingredient in my mac and cheese. It’s an old-timey, Southern version, and the sour cream makes it that much creamier. Oh, it’s so good!
~Paula Deen

A dollop of bleu cheese dressing in a guacamole nearly tips it into dessert.
~author unknown

For our first date, I made Ryan Hamburger Helper, which is basically what I grew up on. I make my own version of it now, with macaroni and cheese and hamburger meat. And the kids ‒ it’s their favorite dinner.
~Reese Witherspoon

I make a dog-friendly version of almost everything that we make for dinner.
~Rachael Ray

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I think you have to be careful with spices. Kids’ palates can be very delicate, and they might not like things overspiced. In my cookbooks for kids, I do a milder version of my signature spice blend, Emeril’s Essence, called Baby Bam, which has no cayenne pepper.
~Emeril Lagasse

In my home I tend to eat a very simple version of what we cook at the restaurant, which is vegetable-oriented, with a little bit of fish and very little meat. For instance, a dish in my home could be steamed spinach with spruce, where I take a spruce branch and put it in the pot and that infuses into the spinach.
~Rene Redzepi

I’m not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love.
~Michelle Obama

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Whether in light touches or for a more glamorous look, I never go out without make-up ‒ even if it’s only a lick of mascara. And I always wear perfume, a light or more intense version.
~Dree Hemingway (model/actress)

As I have had to meet different challenges, I realize I am coming into myself, and whatever I’m wearing is another chance for me to explore a new version of myself.
~Brie Larson

People want to express themselves ‒ that’s what fashion is for. You can go to Target and get something that Rodarte designed for $34, but would you want to go buy the higher version for $3,400? I think most people would say no.
~Kelly Cutrone

Often, I feel like a cheap imitation aesthetically looks better to me than the real, out-of-reach thing. It’s amazing that brands create a whole illusion of exclusivity and luxury, and then you can go get the $5 version of a $30,000 thing and feel the same way but have a cool little secret.
~Hunx (of His Punx)

Michael Bastian is a designer line and priced a certain way because of where it’s made and the materials we use, and Gant is the more accessible version of that: more sports-inspired, more branding. It has the same DNA; it’s just a different time and place.
~Michael Bastian

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I have no sense of myself as a sex symbol at all. But the meaning of sex symbol might be a little different in Japan to elsewhere. The Japanese version seems to come with a stronger emphasis on a sort of grownup or mature male charm. And if that’s the case, then I guess I’m happy to hear it.
~Ken Watanabe

Everyone has a different definition of what they find sexy, so why do we so often get given one version of what sexy is time and time again?
~Olly Alexander

Sexy is about the way you wear something and being confident ‒ the clothes are sexy and flattering. I’ve said right from the beginning, it’s very important clothes are flattering. I want a woman to look and feel like the best version of herself.
~Victoria Beckham

I think clothing is transformative. When you put something really beautiful on, you feel something. In so many ways, we’re always playing a form of dress-up ‒ it’s just a grown-up, much cheaper version of it. It’s nice to be able to be whoever you want to be.
~Jason Wu

I want to be the best version of myself ‒ intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.
~Gabrielle Anwar

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A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.
~Renzo Piano

*IT My version of ‘Georgia‘ became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching.
~Ray Charles

My favourite two festivals have always been the Big Day Out and Summersonic in Japan. The Big Day Out is a little more fun because it lasts longer. It’s like an abbreviated version of the Warped tour because you get to play with the same people every day, which is really fun.
~Gerard Way

I grew up in North Carolina, and they have a soft drink called Sun Drop. I love the diet version of it. It’s the greatest thing on the face of the earth. I always have it in my fridge ‒ bus fridge and home fridge.
~Eric Church

I’ve been to the Bahamas. It’s a beautiful country with truly excellent people. When I took a cruise that docked for a couple hours in Nassau, it mostly reminded me of a giant version of my grandmother’s neighborhood in Mobile, Alabama… but with better accents.
~W Kamau Bell

Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved.
~Patrick White

If I speak my version of Spanish in Spain, they laugh. Same with Mexico. It’s an alien world to me.
~Cedric Bixler-Zavala (US)

If you were a Colombian, you would have your version of an empanada. If you are an Argentinean, you might find a dough that’s baked and has a butter sheen on it. And then in Ecuador, you’ll find more crispy-fried empanadas. So, yeah, every culture has their own version of empanadas.
~Jose Garces

Say ‘Toronto’ or ‘Ontario,’ and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency.
~Christopher Hitchens

Franschhoek ‒ French Corner ‒ is a place which serves South Africans as a kind of sophisticated fantasy, an alternative version of what life could be. The small town is enclosed by wild mountains, at this time of year blue and dusty green.
~Justin Cartwright

I actually think Johannesburg represents the future. My version of what I think the world is going to become looks like Johannesburg.
~Neill Blomkamp

I took a lot of influences from Studio Ghibli, which is the Japanese animation studio that made ‘Spirited Away‘ and ‘Castle in the Sky.’ They’re like the Japanese version of Disney ‒ but without all the schmaltz.
~Jamie Hewlett

The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.
~Georg Brandes

The difference between the American version of ‘Live Aid‘ and the British one – in England, if you wanted a cup of tea, you made it yourself. If you wanted a sandwich, you bought it. In typical American style, at the American concert, there were laminated tour passes and champagne and caviar.
~Phil Collins

In L.A., a lot of comics live here, but we don’t get to spend that much time together because we’ve got to drive 45 minutes home, or do another set. So in San Francisco we can hang out, go for dinner ‒ the community aspect of it is really lovely, as well as seeing people’s shows that you don’t normally get to see a longer version of.
~Maria Bamford

When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz.
~Joe Simon

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Across the Atlantic, commercial therapy of all kinds provides so many more comfortable outlets for people when they are under pressure. The English tradition is to get a grip, whereas the American version is to get in touch with your feelings, to say: ‘I’m a good person. Isn’t it terrible when bad things happen to people like me?’
~Peter York

New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I’d shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle ‒ it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
~Vera Wang

Hollywood is like a really sad, grown up version of high school where people get labeled as ‘cool,’ ‘not cool,’ ‘jock,’ ‘bombshell,’ ‘quirky’… it’s like a caste system. You’re either in, or you’re out.
~Zoe Kravitz

If you write a lovely story about India, you’re criticized for selling an exotic version of India. And if you write critically about India, you’re seen as portraying it in a negative light ‒ it also seems to be a popular way to present India, sort of mangoes and beggars.
~Kiran Desai

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The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn’t really a liar after all. He simply can’t control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.
~Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child’s version of it cannot be the same as an old person’s.
~Deepak Chopra

Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.
~Kristen Stewart

I remember how much ‒ when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of ‘Peter Pan.’ I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy.
~Maurice Sendak

When I was a kid, my favorite movies were the George Pal version of ‘War Of The Worlds,’ ‘Them,’ and ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers.’ Those movies were scary! They haunted my nightmares for years, so when I started writing, I wanted to write a story that was just as big and just as scary.
~David Gerrold (Star Trek)

Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don’t know why. You’ve got to do something a little bit immature. I’m surprised at how often those are my best ideas.
~Nathan Fielder (comedian)

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My face hasn’t matured as I’ve grown up, and neither has my sense of humour. In the mirror, I see an older version of myself as a child, although I do have more wrinkles and freckles.
~Jasmine Guinness (designer)

I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
~Walt Mossberg

I can say the one good thing is for every year where I grow up, I am kinder to myself, and I would say to the younger version of me, ‘I love my body, and I have learnt to stop looking in the mirror at the things I want to change.’
~Alicia Vikander

I don’t have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else’s or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.
~Kate Winslet

I’m accepting I’m not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city.
~Paula Cole

Age is like the newest version of a software — it has a bunch of great new features but you lost all the cool features the original version had.
~Carrie Latet

The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.
~William Greider

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Oh my gosh, I’d give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it’s going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I’ve already forgotten.
~Ginnifer Goodwin

If I can challenge old ideas about aging, I will feel more and more invigorated. I want to represent this new way. I want to be a new version of the 70-year-old woman. Vital, strong, very physical, very agile. I think that the older I get, the more yoga I’m going to do.
~Jamie Lee Curtis

Claude Debussy’s ‘Children’s Corner‘ is a suite with six movements just for piano. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and Alfred Cartot’s versions are amazing, but my favorite is Menininha Lobo’s. Her version was done when she was an old lady and you can hear it.
~Jon Batiste

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When I’m going to see a comedian, I don’t want to see them hold back, and when I’m reading a book, I don’t want to hear an abridged version.
~Kathy Griffin

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Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
~Laura Hillenbrand

I have written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet.
~Anne McCaffrey

The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I’d ever submitted to New York editors.
~Edmund White

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I’m floating between multiple media. I really wish you could buy the hardcover book and it would come with the digital download and audible version. I spend stupid amounts of money because I’m usually buying my books in at least two formats.
~Atul Gawande

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My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that particular drama plays out. Which isn’t to say that there aren’t parents and children in cities or on farms. I just don’t know them.
~Tom Perrotta

I have a little bit of a pet peeve about how the middle class is depicted in movies. I feel like they tend to be either depicted in a very sentimental way, where everybody has a heart of gold except for the villains you’re supposed to hiss at, or there’s a sort of indie-style version… When it’s done well, it’s brilliant, it’s ‘Blue Velvet.’
~Greg Mottola

Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.
~Simon Beaufoy

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I wrote a play once called ‘Lobby Hero,’ which I thought turned out very well, but there’s no final version of it. I published the one we produced, but there are seven other versions with different variations sitting in my desk at home.
~Kenneth Lonergan

I feel like writing a book there’s always a version in your head that’s an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
~Karen Thompson Walker

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Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss proportions, tactlessness, a high tolerance for archival dust. Most of all it calls for an act of displacement. ‘To find your subject, you must in some sense lose yourself along the way,’ is Richard Holmes’s version.
~Stacy Schiff

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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
~Larry David

I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.
~Sue Monk Kidd

A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives to describe a situation, and in that sense, I’m creating a form of fiction.
~Isabel Allende

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One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I’m thinking about an audience, it’s usually a younger version of myself.
~Matt Groening

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In 2008, while the film version of my book ‘Choke‘ was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That meant that I had to appear in public to promote a comedy about a son trying to save his dying mother ‒ the plot of Choke ‒ while privately I was caring for my own dying mother. It was torture.
~Chuck Palahniuk

I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it’s narcissistic and pointless.
~Hari Kunzru

There are versions of truth in every color of the wind. With keen curiosity and an acid bath of doubt, you have things to teach yourself you will never learn until you sit down to write.
~author unknown

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The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story, when you read a book, in a way that is unique and special to each person who reads it.
~Carlton Cuse

The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it’s no longer the abstract ideal version; it’s an event.
~Tom Stoppard

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Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story.
~Penelope Lively

It’s actually pretty complex, because there’s two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider’s poisoned version of what took place.
~Gabriel Byrne

I write speculative fiction, and in my view, speculative fiction is really just a very intense version of the work of literature in general.
~Ken Liu

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I might have some sort of personality disorder. I might not have proper filters; it might be some kind of version of Asperger’s meets Tourettes meets prose.
~Jonathan Ames

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
~Salman Rushdie

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Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs.
~Carroll Quigley

Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
~Maajid Nawaz

The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.
~John Cornyn

I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.
~Lionel Blue

I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story.
~Rob Bell

I also found that for myself, since I’ve had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
~Barbara Walters

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
~Dalai Lama

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For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them.
~John Ortberg

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Scientology delivers what it promises under the guise of tearing away falsity, neuroses, psychoses. It creates a brainwashed, robotic version of you. It’s a ‘Matrix‘ of you, so you’re communicating with people all the time using Scientology.
~Jason Beghe

In politics, Joseph Smith was something of a radical. He preached, instead of democracy, a version of theocratic rule within a framework given by his own prophetic leadership. At Nauvoo, Smith affected a Napoleonic uniform and made himself into a general and quasi king of the polity he had constituted.
~Noah Feldman

‘Jerry Springer‘ is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions.
~Hal Sparks

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The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.
~Ian Caldwell

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
~Lafcadio Hearn

I’m now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I’m eternally grateful for.
~Penelope Lively

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I don’t believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
~Isaac Asimov

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To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.
~E Stanley Jones

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My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.
~Marilyn Manson

I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don’t think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.
~Tony Blair

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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
~Bono

A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
~Billy Sunday

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
~George Bernard Shaw

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According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside ‒ like God, for example.
~Phillip E Johnson

I read Freud’s Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.
~Stanislav Grof

The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality. In a universe made out of energy, everything is entangled; everything is one.
~Bruce Lipton

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There are many of us thinking of one version of parallel universe theory or another. If it’s all a lot of nonsense, then it’s a lot of wasted effort going into this far-out idea. But if this idea is correct, it is a fantastic upheaval in our understanding.
~Brian Greene

You almost can’t avoid having some version of the multiverse in your studies if you push deeply enough in the mathematical descriptions of the physical universe.
~Brian Greene

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People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.
~Richard Stallman

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Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.
~Philip Emeagwali (computer scientist)

Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.
~Bill Gates

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Carl [Sagan] took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.
~Ann Druyan

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It’s not good enough for us to have generations of kids that… look forward to a better version of a cell phone with a video in it. They need to look forward to exploration.
~Burt Rutan

We’re promoting such a narrow version of literacy that we’re not including what a lot of boys like.
~Jon Scieszka

I feel like knowledge is power: If you know how to take care of yourself, you can be a better version of yourself.
~Miranda Kerr

One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read ‘Matilda.’ I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class ‒ cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!
~Randa Abdel-Fattah

It’s such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
~Danica McKellar

I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I’ve had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations with people, and sometimes I just sit there and listen. It’s like a better version of a class. Even though I’m not sitting at a desk and in school, I’m still learning all the time.
~Hayden Panettiere

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§ The Exercise:

motion

tension: transition from peace
torsion: physical twist of fate
portion: partial to the whole
nation: danger of dissolution
notion: searching for solution
position: skewed derivation
vision: version without divisions
edition: narrative progression
the end: history’s abbreviation
creation: where it all begins
again

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auto immune

jealous of jalopies
jaunty and flaunted
scare up adventure
climb mountains in jeeps
sleek formula 3s
bull market mercedes
backseat altar for virgins
vehicular versions
life in the fast lane
plays it for keeps

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pro–fun ditty

yes we loved and now i’ve lost
my country first but at what cost
toils for victory spoils of history
but version rhymes with virgin
only once

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evidence

deep red wine
dark red blood
sunset stains
various versions
past life remains

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best guess

getting from here to there
destiny, decisions or chance
or combination of versions
the question was what, again?
definition of destination

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escape

built up scars
walled up wars
containing famine
constraining no one
scattered families
bits of someone
torn parts of person
compost pile
worth mass disposal
bitter memories
miss guided morals
prompt some to die
where hope can’t try
to hold life hostage

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vis-a–vis

tourist with a passport
itinerant
baring ignorance in passing

resident alien
inhabitant
bearing curiosity as license

visitors, different versions
non-native country
or other•wise

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5s n 7s

rosy horizons
sunrise or sunset
versions of exit
serving as entry
circle back again

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

Everyone has their dreams and their rise and their own version of a fall from grace.
~Molly Bloom

I’ve been broke and sad, rich and sad, broke and happy, rich and happy, and I’ll take the rich version over the broke version all day long.
~Jen Sincero

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I’m the basketball version of a gravedigger.
~Dennis Rodman

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories ‒ and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
~Alice Munro

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See, the ‘On the Road‘ that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody ‒ ‘You must live life this way’ ‒ and these guys were bored.
~Garrett Hedlund

Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That’s why there’s no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
~Camilla Lackberg

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The brain builds a version of the universe and projects this version of the universe like a bubble all around us. So I can say with some certainty, ‘I think therefore I am.’ But I cannot say, ‘You think therefore you are,’ because you are within my perceptual bubble.
~Henry Markram

There’s always going to be a separate version of you that people will create, and you have no control over it.
~Rebecca Hall

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Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art’s version of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. It’s the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.
~Jerry Saltz

I’m looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.
~David Bowie

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When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.
~Walter Isaacson

I’ve come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
~Don DeLillo

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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
~Napoleon Bonaparte.

The story of Levi Strauss and the invention of blue jeans is mostly legend with threads of truth, which my version stretches to near popping.
~Tony Johnston

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Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.
~Terry Gross

If I can get a sanitized version of reality, I’ll take it.
~Darrell Hammond

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My goal is to not fit in. My worst nightmare is being the baby version of another artist.
~Daniel Caesar

I’m not going to become a costume version or caricature of myself; I like to morph.
~FKA twigs

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The Olio’s Quote Harvest
https://bqotd.com, https://brainyquote.com, https://wisesayings.com

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Fun Tarts: https://gocomics.com, https://silviatrujillo.com

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The Salmagundi Video Harvest
https://venmo.com, https://vevo.com, https://vimeo.com, https://youtube.com

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