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• There are a lot of great jokes you can sit down and write, but that's just a written joke, versus the comedy of the situation. Ideally, you're pulling as much comedy out of the situation as you can.

  John Mulaney

  Writing, Down And, Comedy

  "UPROXX Interview: John Mulaney On ‘Mulaney,’ Louis C.K.’s Advice, And ‘SNL’". Interview with Josh Kurp, uproxx.com. October 3, 2014.

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• I think of this a lot in the terms of books. Of course there's a big to-do culturally about e-books versus print books, sales models. The paradigm has changed but my perspective on it is that there's not going to be another paradigm to alight on because everything will continue to evolve so quickly that our brains won't be able to keep up with it.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Book, Thinking, Perspective

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Al Qaeda has declared war on the Somali pirates. That is awesome! Evil against evil. Like Alien versus Predator or Cheney versus his lawyer.

  Craig Ferguson

  War, Evil, Pirate

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• I'm not a crazy horror fan. At that time i wasn't really looking to do something like that. But I thought to put a twist on it to put a werewolf versus vampire... 'What's the best opponent for a werewolf?' Became the idea of vampires and what about putting those two together? And ultimately it got turned down. But we loved the idea and shopped it around.

  Len Wiseman

  Crazy, Ideas, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• I think it's always interesting how music means different things to different people, and people who overthink it are looking to in some ways show off with music, versus people who just respond to a song and decide to sing it.

  Noah Baumbach

  Song, Mean, Thinking

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• Random, meaningless groups can adopt an us-versus-them mentality.

  Alexandra Robbins

  Groups, Meaningless, Mentality

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• America's Christian conservative movement is confronted with this divide: small-government advocates who want to practice their faith independent of heavy-handed government versus big-government sympathizers who want to impose their version of 'righteousness' on others through the hammer of law.... Our movement must avoid the temptations of power and those who would twist the good intentions of Christian voters to support policies that undermine freedom and grow government.

  Dick Armey

  Christian, Independent, Government

  "Christians and Big Government - Why faith requires freedom". FreedomWorks (freedomworks.org), October 12, 2006.

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• The next election will be a flyweight versus a heavyweight. However much the right hon. Gentleman [David Cameron] may dance around the ring beforehand, at some point, he will come within the reach of a big clunking fist...

  Gordon Brown

  Heavyweights, Gentleman, Fists

  Gordon Brown during House of Commons Debates, www.publications.parliament.uk. November 15, 2006.

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• Metaphysical problems about "mind" versus "matter" arise only from epistemological confusions.

  Raymond Smullyan

  Confusion, Mind, Matter

  Raymond Smullyan (1983). “Five Thousand B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies”, p.84, Macmillan

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• When we talk about the foreign, the question becomes one of us versus them. But in the end, is one just the opposite side of the other?

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Opposites, Sides, Ends

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• I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.

  Ursula Burns

  People, Listening, Said

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• I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. I get very concerned when people talk about cutting education budgets.

  Bill Gates

  Cutting, Thinking, Elderly

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• The minute we leave south Lebanon we will have to erase the word Hezbollah from our vocabulary, because the whole idea of the State of Israel versus Hezbollah was sheer folly from the outset. It most certainly no longer will be relevant when Israel returns to her internationally recognized northern border.

  Amos Oz

  Vocabulary, Israel, Ideas

  "Try a Little Tenderness". Haaretz Interview, March 17, 2000.

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• Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. RUMI, attributed, Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

  Rumi

  Garden, Grieving, Needs

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• The essence of the conflict today, really, is cars versus people…We can have a city that is very friendly to cars, or a city that is very friendly to people. We cannot have both.

  Enrique Penalosa

  Essence, Cities, People

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• The "environmental movement" is becoming an economic movement, is joining the social justice movement, is becoming a sustainability movement. It's leaving behind the "People's Needs versus Nature's Needs" conflict in favor of making the case for environmental health as the essential underpinning of prosperous and stable human civilization.

  Edward Norton

  Environmental Health, Civilization, Justice

  "Dialogues on the Environment: Q&A With Edward Norton". Interview with Mark Tercek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• I always think of a voice as an instrument, whether a voice is a trumpet, or violin, or bass. You know what I mean? A horn or wind instrument versus a string instrument. Horn instruments are definitely more toward jazz.

  Debbie Harry

  Mean, Thinking, Wind

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. July 9, 2007.

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• Working on an essay versus a novel is like the difference between seeing to that curtain and seeing to New Jersey.

  Sloane Crosley

  Differences, Jersey, Curtains

  "Sloane Crosley Talks About Writing Her First Novel, The Clasp, With A.M. Homes". www.vulture.com. May 31, 2015.

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• There's a difference between having a challenger whose name appears on the ballot and that`s pretty much it, versus having a challenger who forces you into uncomfortable positions, says some things about you that makes you defend yourself.

  Steve Kornacki

  Names, Differences, Force

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When faced with conflicting thoughts and emotions, we must decide what to trust, what we fear, or what we know. What's important is that this decision be made by the knowledgeable versus the anxious part of who we are.

  Bill Crawford

  Decision, Important, Who We Are

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• Welcome to Bologna on Capital Gold for England versus San Marino with Tennent's Pilsner, brewed with Czechoslovakian yeast for that extra Pilsner taste and England are one down!

  Jonathan Pearce

  Football, Gold, Yeast

  "The hardest FA Cup of all" by Barry Glendenning, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2003.

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• You'd rather have a surplus versus a shortage in your position.

  Kenneth Lay

  Economy, Surplus, Shortage

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• The only biodiversity we're going to have left is Coke versus Pepsi. We're landscaping the whole world one stupid mistake at a time.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Mistake, Stupid, Pepsi

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• The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it. That's maybe the most important thing. It's to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it. I think that's very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you'll want to change life and make it better, cause it's kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.

  Steve Jobs

  Life Changing, Thinking, Important

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• We also knew we definitely wanted to infuse into the narrative the relation of women at different ages with motherhood, their relationship with their babies versus their partners', their overall "need" to have children, their fears and projections on their children, etc. All of this we put into a pot, if you will, and simmered for a while until we had what made sense to us.

  Rania Attieh

  Baby, Children, Motherhood

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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