Versus Quotes - Page 18

• The whole tradition of cinema is dominated, really, by films about good guys versus bad guys, good versus evil. But we have very few films about the nature of evil itself.

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  Evil, Guy, Cinema

  "Lights, Camera, Murder!". Interview with Amos Roberts, www.sbs.com.au. October 15, 2013.

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• What intrigues me is that people kind of naturally want to label or pigeonhole the characters. They want to make it easy for themselves to go, "All right. There's the good guy, there's the bad guy, there's the girl. Okay, I get it now." But life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both. So any time the hero does something I'm not crazy about, or the bad guy does something I can relate to, I'll find it more interesting.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Girl, Crazy, Hero

  Interview with Win Butler, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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• I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.

  Nigel Short

  Play, Perfect, Chess

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• My history of moving away from drugs is not the kind you hear from most people. Certainly not from celebrities, especially those professionally recovering people. What I've noticed in my overuse of cocaine is the period of pleasure versus the period of pain. That is to say that when you first get high on anything, the pleasure is predominant and you don't pay much price. A little hangover or whatever it might be with another drug. But after a while the ratio begins to change, and there' s far more pain in the deal than pleasure. It just completely goes in another direction.

  George Carlin

  Pain, Moving, Hangover

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• Redemption means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. So I think a lot of people get hooked on drugs and when they get over that addiction they go out and they try to talk to kids and they try to work in rehab centers.

  Ice T

  Mean, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you can laugh with somebody and relate to somebody, it becomes harder to dehumanize them. I think that most of what we are constantly bombarded with in terms of media leads you to a creation of 'the Other' and a dehumanization of 'the Other,' and it's very much an us-versus-them conversation.

  Jehane Noujaim

  Thinking, Media, Bombarded By

  "15 Questions with Jehane Noujaim". Interview with Synne D. Chapman, www.thecrimson.com. May 14, 2008.

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• Some news organizations made a mistake with the iPad in saying, 'Oh, it's a big iPhone.' The fact is the way people use the tablet versus the iPhone is so completely different which is why our iPhone and iPad apps look nothing alike.

  Vivian Schiller

  Mistake, Iphone, Organization

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• They are our brothers, these freedom fighters.... They are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance. We cannot turn away from them, for the struggle here is not right versus left; it is right versus wrong.

  Ronald Reagan

  Brother, Father, Struggle

  Ronald Reagan (1989). “Speaking my mind: selected speeches”, Simon & Schuster

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• We've got to be able to distinguish between dangerous individuals who need to be incapacitated and incarcerated versus young people who are in an environment in which they are adapting, but if given different opportunities, a different vision of life, could be thriving the way we are. That's what strikes me. There but for the grace of God. And that, I think, is something that we all have to think about.

  Barack Obama

  Life, Opportunity, Thinking

  "The War on Drugs is a War on Minorities: Former El Reno Prison Inmate Freed by Obama Speaks Out". "Democracy Now!" with Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. July 17, 2015.

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• Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. If one colony member devotes its life to service over marriage, the individual is of benefit to the society, even though it does not have personal offspring. A soldier going into battle will benefit his country, but he runs a higher risk of death than one who does not. An altruist benefits the group, but a layabout or coward who saves his own energy and reduces his bodily risk passes the resulting social cost to others.

  E. O. Wilson

  Running, Country, Soldier

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• I haven't really been auditioning. For me is about finding quality work versus finding work. I get a considerable amount of offers everyday.

  Romany Malco

  Everyday, Quality, Offers

  "Romany Malco Chats w/ S&A About “Think Like A Man,” Picking Projects, Black Cinema & More!". Interview with Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. May 7, 2012.

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• When you're making a purchasing decision around an appliance or a car or a home, that's when to take the environment into mind, but don't dwell so much on paper versus plastic.

  Chip Giller

  Home, Car, Decision

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I like televangelism shows. I find it entertaining sometimes to see how a young person would deliver the word versus a old person.

  Betty Wright

  Sometimes, Young, Shows

  Source: ratedrnb.com

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• There's probably no one who understands Method acting better academically than I do, or actually uses it more in his work. But it's funny - nobody really sees that. It's perception versus reality, I suppose.

  Jack Nicholson

  Reality, Perception, Acting

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I think I'm the future of hip-hop. You know, I feel bad for saying that. That's unfortunate, but that's a fact. You can't compare my model of hip-hop with what I'm about to come out with versus anything in the game.

  Spencer Pratt

  Thinking, Games, Hip Hop

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I really enjoy surfing a lot. It's an awesome sport. With surfing there are no mind games versus Peyton Manning, or versus anyone else. It's not me trying to throw a certain shot put further - or to put a ball in a hoop, it's just me against mother nature.

  Troy Polamalu

  Sports, Mother, Games

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Everybody thinks it's glamorous and this spy versus spy stuff is so exciting, but working in that industry and being a CIA operative, like a field officer, is tough. That's a difficult job that usually dismantles their lives in some capacity.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Jobs, Thinking, Spy

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• In the time just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when Perfidia opens, we were pre-psychologized. There were no concepts of identity, no politics of victimization. Reparation wasn't in the language. Nobody thought about giving the great grandchildren of black slaves so much as $1.98. And all of a sudden the bombs hit, interventionism versus isolationism became a dead issue, and it was us-versus-them in a heartbeat.

  James Ellroy

  Grandchildren, Issues, Giving

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• When I'm looking for Zen and I'm not saying this facetiously at all - I would really rather surf, scuba dive, or fly my plane. And, when I feel tension about the grind of work, it's not getting the money to make films versus making films that constitutes the grind, it's all this stuff.

  Edward Norton

  Scuba, Stuff, Surf

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Beyond the mythology, Wonder Woman gets to play with several dichotomies. It's Amazon culture versus man's world; ancient mythological times versus the contemporary world; and, of course, all the male and female issues.

  Bruce Timm

  Men, Play, Issues

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• But as Van casually directed the searchlight of backthought into that maze of the past where the mirror-lined narrow paths not only took different turns, but used different levels (as a mule-drawn cart passes under the arch of a viaduct along which a motor skims by), he found himself tackling, in still vague and idle fashion, the science that was to obsess his mature years - problems of space and time, space versus time, time-twisted space, space as time, time as space - and space breaking away from time, in the final tragic triumph of human cogitation: I am because I die.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Fashion, Past, Years

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• Red Sox versus Yankees is the greatest rivalry in sports.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Sports, Yankees, Red

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• When making a decision, focus on what feels "shackles off" versus "shackles on".

  Martha Beck

  Choices, Focus, Decision

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• The people who think a guy walked on water versus the people who think a horse can fly.

  Scott Adams

  Horse, Jesus, Thinking

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.338, Penguin

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• It as an argument between the world of emotion versus the world of the intellect. It's the idea that you can suppress a person's mind and a person's experiences, mentally, psychologically and intellectually, but you can't completely quiet them to the point of dormancy and the emotionally life a person. You still have the heart and what the heart remembers and what the heart experiences. And even that isn't important that that comes across.

  Colin Farrell

  Heart, Ideas, Mind

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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