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Quotes About Watered-down

I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?
~ Nick Cave
Oh, I'm not offended. But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced flyfishing, I became too stinkin' proud to use the title. I won't touch watered whiskey and take no pride in watered-down degrees. Call me Jubal." "Oh. But the degree in medicine hasn't been watered down." "Time they called it something else, so as not to confuse it with playground supervisors.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Ultimately, however, the administration's plan included a watered-down version of Sheila's idea.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down.
~ Eli Roth
When I was offered 'Hawkeye,' it was very intimidating at first because that book is so loved and so successful, commercially and critically. The worst thing you could do is try to imitate what they did because, in the end, you're just going to get a watered-down version of what they did.
~ Jeff Lemire
What if the blasé religiosity of most American teenagers is not the result of poor communication but the result of excellent communication of a watered-down gospel so devoid of God's self-giving love in Jesus Christ, so immune to the sending love of the Holy Spirit that it might not be Christianity at all?
~ Kenda Creasy Dean
what bothers me today is the lack of, well, i guess you'd call it authentic experience. so much is a sham. so much is artificial, synthetic, watered-down, and standardized...we're standardizing people, their goals, their ideas. the sham is everywhere.
~ Tom Robbins
To me, tea taste like dried lawn-clippings, diluted leaf mould, watered-down compost mixed with a dash of bovine bodily fluid.
~ Maggie O'Farrell