Edited Quotes

• No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

  Ruth Benedict

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  Ruth Benedict (1973). “Patterns of Culture”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Saint, Saints And Sinners, Sinner

  Devil's Dictionary (1911) p. 306

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• The New Testament is an invaluable book, though I confess to having been slightly prejudiced against it in my very early days by the church and the Sabbath school, so that it seemed, before I read it, to be the yellowest book in the catalogue. Yet I early escaped from their meshes. It was hard to get the commentaries out of one's head and taste its true flavor. [...] It would be a poor story to be prejudiced against the Life of Christ because the book has been edited by Christians.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Bible, Christian, Dream

  "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1849.

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• The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Self, Patient, Foolish

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• Your filter bubble is your own personal, unique universe of information that you live in online. What's in your filter bubble depends on who you are, and it depends on what you do. But you don't decide what gets in - and more importantly, you don't see what gets edited out.

  Eli Pariser

  Motivation, Inspiration, Unique

  "Beware online 'filter bubbles'". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• The Cheyenne Indians: their history and lifeways : edited and illustrated

  George Bird Grinnell

  Cheyenne

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• Nothing in this world is more inspiring than a soul up against crippling circumstances who carries it off with courage and faith and undefeated character-nothing! See Light From Many Lamps, edited by L. E. Watson, article by H. E. Fosdick, pp. 93-94 re: a serious cripple who succeeded.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Character, Light, Soul

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• Peeping through my keyhold I see within the range of only about 30 percent of the light that comes from the sun; the rest is infrared and some little ultraviolet, perfectly apparent to many animals, but invisible to me. A nightmare network of ganglia, charged and firing without my knowledge, cuts and splices what I see, editing it for my brain. Donald E. Carr points out that the sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brian: 'This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is.

  Annie Dillard

  Mean, Cutting, Animal

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• Christian apologists who argue that a story about an empty tomb is convincing evidence of a resurrected body are likely unfamiliar with Occam’s razor, which states that among competing hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be selected. They assume that the most likely explanation is miraculous resurrection through some unproven divine connection, but more likely scenarios include a stolen body, a mismarked grave, a planned removal, faulty reports, creative storytelling, edited scriptures, etc. No magic required.

  David G. McAfee

  Christian, Convincing Evidence, Creative

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• I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's going to get edited. I think that comes from being in a large family, so you have to get your story in really quick or someone cuts you off.

  Amy Sedaris

  Cutting, Thinking, Stories

  "Amy Sedaris Likes To Watch You Cry". Interview with Lucas Kavner, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2011.

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• I wish I could go back and rewrite my first book, You Bright and Risen Angels; I could do a better job. But in the meantime, nobody knows as much about my books as I do. Nobody has the right but me to say which words go into my books or get deleted or edited. When I'm dying, I'll smile, knowing I stood up for my books. If I die with more money, that wouldn't bring a smile to my face. Unless I got better drugs or more delicious-looking nurses.

  William T. Vollmann

  Jobs, Book, Angel

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• SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Book, Fool, Distinction

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.211, University of Georgia Press

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• Most of the sighs we hear have been edited.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  December, Sigh, Has Beens

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• When I read Spencer Madsen’s poetry, I not only feel awe because he’s so good, one of the best, but I also think about how everything in the world is happening at the same time, and how the world we get to know is so heavily edited down. It’s the hugest, weirdest feeling. I wish Spencer Madsen could be everywhere at once. I really love You Can Make Anything Sad.

  Dennis Cooper

  Love You, Thinking, Feelings

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• 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

  Cutting, Two, Example

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• David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology.

  Terry Southern

  Son, Stories, Anthology

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• The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, Strange, Week

  "Pulp" by Imogen Tilden, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2001.

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• Edited by mostly unknown scholars in A.D. 367, compiled from documents written 30 to 110 years after the Christ event by no one who was present at the events, and composed for the most part by unknown authors in the Greek language that Jesus never spoke, it is held up as the only true record of the Christ story.

  Leonard Shlain

  Jesus, Years, Greek

  Leonard Shlain (1999). “The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image”, p.233, Penguin

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• This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.

  Eartha Kitt

  Fall, Our Words, Entertainment

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• At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were, or think of themselves as writers. Part of that is because magazines worry about their voice.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Thinking, Voice, People

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• Facebook was looking at which links I clicked on, and it was noticing that I was clicking more on my liberal friends' links than on my conservative friends' links. And without consulting me about it, it had edited them out. They disappeared.

  Eli Pariser

  Motivation, Inspiration, Links

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• It has been jestingly said that the works of John Paul Richter are almost unintelligible to any but the Germans, and even to some of them. A worthy German, just before Richter's death, edited a complete edition of his works, in which one particular passage fairly puzzled him. Determined to have it explained at the source, he went to John Paul himself. The author's reply was very characteristic: "My good friend, when I wrote that passage, God and I knew what it meant; it is possible that God knows it still; but as for me, I have totally forgotten."

  Jean Paul

  Friendship, Good Friend, Determined

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• What I meant when I say that the media are bots, I don't want anybody misunderstand this. I'm watching CNN and one of their infobabes is doing this report on Al Franken questioning [Jeff] Sessions during the confirmation hearings. I'm convinced - and they played an edited version of it. It was edited by somebody to make it look like it was something other than what it was, and I'm convinced this infobabe hasn't the slightest clue.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Media, Cnn, Looks

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way.

  Walter Murch

  Cutting, Avid, Editing

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• Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.

  Frank Ocean

  Art, Thinking, Musical

  Frank Ocean: 'I told y'all my album would be the best!'" by Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2012.

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