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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.

    Author: Ace Frehley
   

In the industry, you do need some ethics - if one film does well, then thousands get work and money comes back to the industry. I guess the bottomline is, if there are two versions, then the better one will click.

    Author: Ajay Devgan
   

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.

    Author: Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
   

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.

    Author: Al Gore
   

War is a perversion of sex.

    Author: Alan Moore
   

Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.

    Author: Alan Thicke
   

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

    Author: Aldous Huxley
   

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

    Author: Alice Munro
   

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.

    Author: Allen Tate
   

Carl 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.

    Author: Ann Druyan
   

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

    Author: Anne McCaffrey
   

God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.

    Author: Archibald Alexander
   

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.

    Author: Ayn Rand
   

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

    Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
   

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

    Author: Barbara Jordan
   

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.

    Author: Barbara Walters
   

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.

    Author: Barry Sonnenfeld
   

Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.

    Author: Bill Sienkiewicz
   

From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions.

    Author: Bille August
   

He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film.

    Author: Bille August
   

I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.

    Author: Billy Corgan
   

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.

    Author: Billy Corgan
   

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

    Author: Billy Graham
   

Artist - 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.

    Author: Billy Joel
   

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!

    Author: Billy Sunday
   

Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.

    Author: Billy Sunday
   

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!

    Author: Billy Sunday
   

Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.

    Author: Billy Sunday
   

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

    Author: Blaise Pascal
   

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

    Author: Blaise Pascal
   

I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness of truth long ago.

    Author: Bo Gritz
   

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.

    Author: Bob Beauprez
   

You know, a better man for a better America. That's sort of our slogan.

    Author: Bob Dole
   

Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form.

    Author: Bob Woodward
   

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.

    Author: Bobby Farrelly
   

When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are.

    Author: Bradley Whitford
   

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.

    Author: Brian Ferneyhough
   

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.

    Author: Brian Sibley
   

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.

    Author: Bruce Campbell
   

In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so.

    Author: Carroll Quigley
   

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.

    Author: Carroll Quigley
   

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.

    Author: Cathy Rindner Tempelsman
   

The committee discloses that even after the U.S. government learned of the diversion of U.S. designs for nuclear warheads in late 1995, the Clinton Administration failed to take steps immediately to improve security.

    Author: Charles Foster Bass
   

The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.

    Author: Charles Foster Bass
   

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.

    Author: Clint Black
   

Our site should be like Paddington Station with a much better version of WH Smith's in it.

    Author: Colin Greenwood
   

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.

    Author: Dakota Fanning
   

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

    Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
   

It was like an older but better version of Young Talent Time because we had more time to spend on it. There were three guys and three girls and we made thirteen episodes that were sold in the United States and Canada.

    Author: Dannii Minogue
   

But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.

    Author: Dario Argento
   

Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.

    Author: Dario Fo
   

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

    Author: Dave Barry
   

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?

    Author: David Brin
   

This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.

    Author: David Brooks
   

Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!

    Author: David Chalmers
   

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.

    Author: David Icke
   

I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.

    Author: David Ogden Stiers
   

I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment.

    Author: David Soul
   

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

    Author: David Viscott
   

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.

    Author: 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.

    Author: Deborah Cox
   

So I did 'Something Happened on the Way to Heaven' and the original version is a ballad. The original Phil record is uptempo but we slowed it down and made it a ballad.

    Author: Deborah Cox
   

I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger.

    Author: Dennis Rodman
   

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

    Author: Don DeLillo
   

I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.

    Author: Donald Cargill
   

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.

    Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower
   

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

    Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower
   

In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.

    Author: E. Stanley Jones
   

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.

    Author: E. Stanley Jones
   

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

    Author: Edmund White
   

In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton's WWII career.

    Author: Edward Albert
   

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

    Author: Edward R. Murrow
   

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

    Author: Elia Kazan
   

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

    Author: Elvis Costello
   

Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.

    Author: Elvis Costello
   

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

    Author: Emile M. Cioran
   

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

    Author: Emile M. Cioran
   

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

    Author: Eric Bentley
   

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.

    Author: Erno Rubik
   

Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.

    Author: Ernst Toller
   

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.

    Author: Esa-Pekka Salonen
   

Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.

    Author: Eugene Ionesco
   

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

    Author: Fawn M. Brodie
   

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

    Author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld
   

I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be.

    Author: Franz Boas
   

There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion.

    Author: Fredrik Bajer
   

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.

    Author: Gabriel Byrne
   

More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.

    Author: Gabriel Heatter
   

An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.

    Author: Garrett Hardin
   

I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.

    Author: Gary Bauer
   

I like Anastacia's version of Love is Alive best.

    Author: Gary Wright
   

When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD.

    Author: Gavin Bryars
   

The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.

    Author: Georg Brandes
   

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

    Author: George Adam Smith
   

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.

    Author: George Andrew Olah
   

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

    Author: George Bernard Shaw
   

The Lord Jesus will be revealed mightily, and will make bare his holy Arm, as well in the confusion of Antichrist, as in the conversion of the Jews, before the last judgment, and the end of all things.

    Author: George Gillespie
   

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

    Author: George Jean Nathan
   

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.

    Author: George W. Bush
   

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

    Author: Geraldine Ferraro
   

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