Reinvention Quotes - Page 2

• There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives.

  Salman Rushdie

  War

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• Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to change.

  Jane Pauley

  Life Changing, People, Stripes

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• "Reinvention" is a word that doesn't fit into my vocabulary.

  George W. Bush

  Vocabulary, Fit

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• In C++, reinvention is its own reward.

  Erik Naggum

  Rewards

  "Wretched C++". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. April 23, 1997.

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• A system needs to be alive and workable even when other people than the first enthusiasts start using it. Reinvention and revolution are enthusiast stuff. Invention and evolution are engineering.

  Erik Naggum

  Engineering, People, Needs

  "Well, I want to switch over to replace EMACS LISP with Guile". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. September 28, 2002.

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• Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.

  Dionne Brand

  Fashion, Communication, Language

  Dionne Brand (2012). “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging”, p.64, Vintage Canada

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• If you want to know the future, look at what is in your mind

  Matthieu Ricard

  Mind, Looks, Want

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• I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.

  Julian Fellowes

  Thinking, Television, World

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• I'm skeptical that the novel will be "re­invented." If you start thinking about a medical textbook or something, then, yes, I think that's ripe for reinvention. You can imagine animations of a beating heart. But I think the novel will thrive in its current form. That doesn't mean that there won't be new narrative inventions as well. But I don't think they'll displace the novel.

  Jeff Bezos

  Mean, Heart, Thinking

  "The Customer Is Always Right". Interview with Daniel Lyons, www.washingtonpost.com. December 21, 2009.

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• America’s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive; diversity and openness; an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it - so long as we seize it together.

  Barack Obama

  America, Diversity, Long

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• Reinvention means you're kind of re-creating somebody. Well, I'm the same person, in terms of values. My priorities - my faith, my family, my friends, the values of personal responsibility and universality of freedom, and "to whom much is given, much is required" - haven't changed [since presidency].

  George W. Bush

  Mean, Responsibility, Creating

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• Self-reinvention is an essential trope of the American project, closely linked to another such trope: going on the lam. Both are regularly featured in movies and novels and suchlike. Criminals and persons loitering with and without intent hold a crucial place in the culture. For obvious reasons, the culture cannot endorse this behavior, even as it is in thrall to it.

  Luc Sante

  Self, Criminals, Essentials

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The reinvention of American culture as purely the self catapulted Las Vegas to prominence. The city took sin and made it choice -- a sometimes ambiguous choice, but choice nonetheless. Combined with a visionary approach to experience that melded Hollywood and Americans' taste for comfort and self-deception, Las Vegas grew into the last American frontier city, as foreign at times as Prague but as quintessential as Peoria. In Las Vegas, you can choose your fantasy; in the rest of America, you don't always get to pick.

  Hal Rothman

  Las Vegas, Self, Cities

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• Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.

  Larry Wall

  Wheels, Unix

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• Well, to me, the tensile strength and the very definition of an artist is something that I would place at the top of a vertical hierarchy. To be an artist is to suffer and to lead a life without shelter. It takes a great amount of daring-do, self reinvention, imagination, familial loyalty, sacrifice, economic uncertainty, and the right to be wrong, the right to fail in order to achieve something of noticeable value.

  Van Dyke Parks

  Loyalty, Sacrifice, Artist

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• I don't know that 'NCIS: Los Angeles' is a complete reinvention, but I'm playing one of the guys in charge this time. Before I'd be cast as a young impressionable character. I think part of that is just being more mature.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Character, Thinking, Guy

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• It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.

  Naomi Campbell

  People, Challenges, Looks

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• I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form.

  Bryan Adams

  Song, Caring, Night

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• There's definitely a pattern of great British shows that get reinvented in America and do really well here, but I think 'Torchwood' is a bit different. It's more of a hybrid that doesn't exist as a reinvention.

  Bill Pullman

  Thinking, America, Different

  "A Minute With: Bill Pullman about 'Torchwood'". Interview with Iain Blair, www.reuters.com. July 6, 2011.

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• My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.

  Roger Daltrey

  Feelings, Enthusiasm

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• When an American declares bankruptcy, when he hits bottom, he can reinvent himself. There's a story he can tell. We tolerate reinvention. We encourage reinvention. That's what this country has that Europe does not. It's not just a crisis; it's an opportunity.

  Michael Lewis

  Country, Opportunity, Europe

  "Michael Lewis’ 'Boomerang': 'Money Thrown Out in Hope, Coming Back in Anger'". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 21, 2011.

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• I love being a conservative. We conservatives are proud of our philosophy. Unlike our liberal friends, who are constantly looking for new words to conceal their true beliefs and are in a perpetual state of reinvention, we conservatives are unapologetic about our ideals.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Philosophy, Love Is, Unapologetic

  "Axelrod and Biden Attack Rush". "Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. November 2, 2009.

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• The BBC came to me and they wanted to adapt the book [Three Musketeers] again, in the straightforward way, and I said no to that. I didn't want to do that. But what I did want to do was have a real look at the adventure genre because I thought it was ripe for reinvention.

  Adrian Hodges

  Real, Book, Adventure

  Source: collider.com

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• The link between Vreeland and Guggenheim is their mutual sense of reinvention and transformation. That made something click inside of me as I too reinvented myself when I began writing the book on Diana Vreeland .

  Lisa Immordino Vreeland

  Book, Writing, Links

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns is an American masterpiece, a stupendous literary success that channels the social sciences as iconic biography in order to tell a vast story of a people's reinvention of itself and of a nation-the first complete history of the Great Black Migration from start to finish, north, east, west.

  David Levering Lewis

  Order, People, Black

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