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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
Rabindranath Tagore

Through, Dark, Become

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland

Yourself, Else, Somebody

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte

History, Past, Events

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.
Tom Hooper

Best, Insecurity, Self

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
Isaac Asimov

Through, Personal, Books

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'
Mason Cooley

Faithful, Liberal, Stay

'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Christmas, Alone, Perfect

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.
Matt Damon

Yourself, Person, Try

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Salman Rushdie

Book, Ignore, Return

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.
Billy Joel

Life, Around, Artist

I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.
Quentin Tarantino

Movies, Before, Story

My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.
Marilyn Manson

Religion, Mother, Father

Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's.
Deepak Chopra

Life, Person, Through

I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.
David Bowie

Money, Finance, Writing

Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.
Jerry Saltz

Good, Art, Everything

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.
Alanis Morissette

Time, Great, Experience

Cheryl Cole and Katy Perry are two of the hottest girls in the world - and so normal and funny with it. If I was a few years older they are the kind of girls I'd like to date. I want a younger version of Cheryl and Katy - a mixture of the two would be hot.
Justin Bieber

Funny, Two, Few

We're trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. It's going to be similar to the story of how I got discovered. Kinda like my own version of '8 Mile.'
Justin Bieber

Future, Trying, Story

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

Truth, Fear, Deceived

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

Play, Actually, Rules

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.
Billy Corgan

Life, Good, Jesus

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.
David Icke

History, Freedom, Down

Accept that the moment you buy your latest iPad, iPhone, tablet, app or game it will be promptly followed by a vastly improved and sleeker looking version.
Simon Mainwaring

Game, Moment, Accept

And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
Larry David

Writing, Quite, Kept

When it comes to consumer electronics, I'm a big fat sucker, because even though I know you should never, ever buy anything until the second version of it is released, I just can't resist. I live in a state of perpetual Beta.
Susan Orlean

Live, Big, Until

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.
Thom Yorke

Music, Truth, Art

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.
Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

Truth, Happy, Liar

Don't compare yourself with someone else's version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burns the most calories.
Caroline Rhea

Happy, Yourself, Someone

Everything I do is part of my passion. I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby. I love to play piano, sing, and act. I love to do all those things.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Love, Passion, Everything

People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.
Richard Stallman

Happy, Free, Sometimes

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