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• In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer.... offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In our age of bottomless self-love and obsession with our own feelings, Krauthammer suggested, "The too-examined life is not worth living either.

  John Leo

  Self, Feelings, Age

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• Maybe other people are like mirrors that we see ourselves in; versions of ourselves that vary dramatically depending on the particular cut of glass.

  Jonathan Hull

  Cutting, Glasses, Mirrors

  Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books

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• In the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version of the dark ages, an era of shifting fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don't know any better.

  Michael Crichton

  Dark, People, Age

  Remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Friendship, Old Friends, Needs

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Doctors, Names, Giving

  "Ferraro Recounts Second Thoughts On Her Nomination, Citing Scrutiny" by Jane Perlez, www.nytimes.com. August 25, 1984.

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• So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

  Allen Tate

  Perfect, Interesting, Want

  allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”

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• I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city.

  Paula Cole

  Cities, Accepting, Bigs

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• A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Jobs, Children, Inexperience

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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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

  Editing, Records, Shapes

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• Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!

  Jerry Hall

  Three, Rehearsal, Auditions

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• All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.

  Martin Amis

  Writing, Two, Novelists

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• 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

  Character, What If, Spleen

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

  William Greider

  Do It Yourself, Pension

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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

  Decision, Different, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Japan is, you often feel, an improved version of the United States.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humorous, Japan

  George Mikes (1970). “The land of the rising yen: Japan”, Harvard Common Press

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• ... but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.

  Betsy Lerner

  Writing, Doe, World

  Betsy Lerner (2016). “The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers”, p.21, Pan Macmillan

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• Here's a slightly outrageous tip: Don't respect the text. Just because you've written something down doesn't mean it has a right to exist. If your internal editor can find a better way to say something, junk the original version and go with the new one. If you can't find a better way, and the passage really isn't good, junk it.

  Crawford Kilian

  Writing, Mean, Editors

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• I stand before you a weekend version of your reflection begging for direction, for my soul needs resurrection.

  DMX

  Friendship, Reflection, Weekend

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• The best time to tell your story is when you have to tell your story. When it's not really a choice. But then, when you get that first, messy, complicated version down, you have to read it over and be very tough on yourself and ask, 'Well what's the story here?' If you're lucky enough to have someone you trust looking over your shoulder, he or she can help you if [you] lack perspective on your own story.

  Jeannette Walls

  Writing, Perspective, Choices

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• You can imagine a soul as being a detailed, elaborate pattern that exists very clearly in one brain. When a person dies, the original is no longer around. But there are other versions of it in other people's brains. It's a less detailed copy, it's coarse-grained.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  People, Soul, Brain

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• 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

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie.

  Elvis Costello

  Lying, Critics

  "Interview about The Delivery Man". Interview with Brian Wise, www.elviscostello.info. April 10, 2004.

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• I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.

  Penelope Lively

  Kings, Grateful, Agnostic

  "I'm not a historian but I can get obsessively interested in the past'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2001.

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

  Guy Kawasaki

  Europe, Ideas, Trying

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• The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Cutting, Play, Long

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