#versions

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

— Dave Barry

#answer #bill #bill gates #gates #know

All you hear Catholics turning out these days are pop versions of the old Protestant anthems. ↗

— Richard Morris

#days #hear #old #out #pop

The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason that gods were invented was because they were basically larger versions of ourselves. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#any #basically #because #characters #gods

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. ↗

— Ajay Devgan

#better #click #comes #does #ethics

I just feel that I don't agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that's sensationalized. ↗

— Bernadine Dohrn

#any #feel #history #i #just

The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about. ↗

— Jane Mayer

#abuse #actually #better #extreme #face

It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

#always #bad #early #how #me

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

#err #get #go #gut #honest

I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books. ↗

— David Sedaris

#books #british #guess #guilty #guilty pleasure

If my mother's intention in whole or in part was to ensure that I never had to suffer any indignity or embarrassment for being a Jew, then she succeeded well enough. And in any case there were enough intermarriages and 'conversions' on both sides of her line to make me one of those many mischling hybrids who are to be found distributed all over the known world. And, as someone who doesn't really believe that the human species is subdivided by 'race,' let alone that a nation or nationality can be defined by its religion, why should I not let the whole question slide away from me? Why—and then I'll stop asking rhetorical questions—did I at some point resolve that, in whatever tone of voice I was asked 'Are you a Jew?' I would never hear myself deny it? ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#intermarriage #jews #mothers #nationality #race