quotes about Copies
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Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.
-- Aaron Swartz -
Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's.
-- Arthur DarvillSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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There’s no copy-and- paste system in foreign aid.
-- Atifete Jahjaga -
I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
-- Ben Jonson -
I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.
-- Bill Monroe -
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There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.
-- Caroline CorrSource : "Caroline Corr of The Corrs". Interviewwith Billy Amendola, www.moderndrummer.com. May, 2005.
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To copy faults is want of sense.
-- Charles ChurchillSource : Charles Churchill (1766). “Poems”, p.19
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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.
-- Christopher Lasch -
Be the best version of yourself rather than a bad copy of someone else!
-- Conchita Wurst -
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We have a name for things that don't copy themselves: dead.
-- Cory Doctorow -
You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.
-- Damien Hirst -
You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.
-- David BaileySource : "Di wasn't a great beauty" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2005.
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When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.
-- Diane Lane -
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Be yourself. An original is always worth more than a copy.
-- Doreen Virtue -
Beauty brings copies of itself into being.
-- Elaine ScarrySource : Elaine Scarry (2013). “On Beauty and Being Just”, p.3, Princeton University Press
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I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again.
-- Elizabeth David -
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If you can’t out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you’re toast anyway.
-- Eric Ries -
If I had time and a hammer, I'd track down every bootleg copy and smash it.
-- George Lucas -
It is better to invert reality than to copy it.
-- Giuseppe Verdi -
Be yourself, because an original is better than a copy.
-- Greyson Chance -
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I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.
-- Howard Hodgkin -
Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully.
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To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.
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Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.
-- Jacques LipchitzSource : "Living thoughts: inspiration, insight, and wisdom from sources throughout the ages" by Bernard S. Raskas, (p. 22), 1976.
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Ranger plays by his own set of rules, and I don't have a complete copy.
-- Janet EvanovichSource : Janet Evanovich (2009). “Lean Mean Thirteen”, p.7, Macmillan
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Quotations--always inexact. I don't trust people who cannot even copy out.
-- Jean Rostand -
Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one.
-- Jim Henson -
It's nice to have a game that sells a million copies.
-- John Carmack -
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I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.
-- John HodgmanSource : "John Hodgman, part one: the global superpocalypse". Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 8, 2011.
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All the elements in an advertisement are primarily designed to do one thing and one thing only: get you to read the first sentence of the copy.
-- Joseph SugarmanSource : Joseph Sugarman (2012). “The Adweek Copywriting Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Powerful Advertising and Marketing Copy from One of America's Top Copywriters”, p.38, John Wiley & Sons
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Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend.
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I never sent promotional copies to Christian radio stations in my life. It's not what I'm interested in.
-- Larry Norman -
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Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.
-- Leon Kass -
Ive never really tried to copy anyone, I like to have my own style.
-- Liam Aiken -
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You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers.
-- Mark PincusSource : "FarmVillains " by Peter Jamison, archives.sfweekly.com. September 08, 2010.
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If you copy then it is not self-expression.
-- Michael Schenker -
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No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.
-- Missy Elliot -
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
-- Pablo Picasso -
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
-- Pablo Picasso -
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Good designers copy; great designers steal.
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Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.
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Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.
-- Peg BrackenSource : Peg Bracken (1969). “I Didn't Come Here to Argue”
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There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite.
-- Peter Straub -
My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.
-- Randy BachmanSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.
-- Renata AdlerSource : Renata Adler (2013). “Pitch Dark”, p.35, New York Review of Books
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All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.
-- Robert Cray -
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My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.
-- Robert Plant -
Copy is a direct conversation with the consumer.
-- Shirley Polykoff -
When something works for you or another brand, ask yourself, 'Why?' Then don't copy it but think about what you can do that's unique to you and better.
-- Simon Mainwaring -
My goal is never to copy. Create a new style.
-- Tamara de Lempicka -
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I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.
-- Venerable Bede -
You must look at the processes of motion in the macrocosmos and microcosmos accurately, and copy them!
-- Viktor SchaubergerSource : Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (2000). “The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature: Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.15, Gill & Macmillan Ltd
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I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.
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Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up.
-- Wally Wood -
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I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.
-- Georgia O'Keeffe -
The copy price of the future is the copyright.
-- Mathias Dopfner -
There have to be at least two copies of a photograph, otherwise it’s not a photograph.
-- Thomas Ruff -
When something original works, then everyone wants to copy it. But if you're trying to do something that no one's ever seen before it's frightening.
-- Chris CarterSource : Source: www.680news.com
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I was going to buy a copy of "The Power of Positive Thinking", and then I thought: What good would that do?
-- Ronnie Shakes -
Before I even took pictures I knew that I wanted to have them as hard copy memories.
-- Jim Goldberg -
I've never really tried to copy anyone, I like to have my own style.
-- Liam AikenSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.