Adapted Quotes

• 'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock.

  Chris Cornell

  Song, Writing, Rocks

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• Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

  Samuel Butler

  Men, Training, World

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill”

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• The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Teacher, Book, Library

  Joseph Lancaster (1803). “Improvements in education, as it respects the industrious classes of the community”, p.38

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• Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult to survive in the wild.

  Norm Dicks

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying.

  John Philip Sousa

  Wind, Balance, Orchestra

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• Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.

  Robert Benchley

  Spring, Writing, Soul

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• It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Animal, Organization, Habit

  Alfred Russel Wallace (1869). “The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise”, p.267, London, Macmillan

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• Sometimes when you play a character, you can feel it in your body. And I felt like I had characteristics of my dog: the way Webster moves, the way he holds his head. I kind of adapted it into this part unconsciously

  Calista Flockhart

  Dog, Moving, Character

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• Mail armor continued in general use till about the year 1300, when it was gradually supplanted by plate armor, or suits consisting of pieces or plates of solid iron, adapted to the different parts of the body.

  Thomas Bulfinch

  Years, Iron, Suits Of Armor

  Thomas Bulfinch (1858). “The Age of Chivalry: Or Legends of King Arthur, "King Arthur and His Knights", "The Mabinogeon", "The Crusades", "Robin Hood", Etc”, p.19

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• My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.

  Martin Van Buren

  Safe Keeping, Accomplishment, Opinion

  United States. President (1837-1841 : Van Buren), Martin Van Buren (1838). “Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress”, p.10

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• The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.

  Joseph Butler

  Happiness, Men, World

  Joseph Butler (1867). “The Analogy of Religion, to the Constitution & Course of Nature...”, p.215

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• Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.

  Chris Chocola

  September 11, World, Immigration

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• In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Atheism, Facts, Emotion

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• But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.

  Ray Walston

  Book, Thinking, Differences

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• I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Trying, Roles

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• There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Rights, Voice, Movement

  Stokely Carmichael (1966). “What we want”

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• There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.

  Henry Miller

  Crazy, World, Becoming

  Henry Miller (2010). “The Colossus of Maroussi”, p.41, New Directions Publishing

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• God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Stars, Ocean, Son

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• To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Book, Blessed, Hollywood

  "Author Talk: The Notebook". Interview with Paula K. Parker, www.bookreporter.com. June, 2004.

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• The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Thinking, Vanity, Order

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• I adapted an antiquated style and modernized it to something that was efficient. I didn't know anyone else in the world would be able to use it and I never imagined it would revolutionize the event.

  Dick Fosbury

  Style, Events, Would Be

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• The high food value of field beans and the shortage of supply due to the light yields of 1915 and 1916 render them of great importance in the regions to which they are adapted.

  David F. Houston

  Yield, Light, Fields

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• A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

  Elias Canetti

  Men, Lice, Add

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• I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

  Edith Wharton

  Views, Political, Literature

  Edith Wharton, Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis, Nancy Lewis (1988). “The letters of Edith Wharton”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Sports, Golf, Games

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