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• Children copy their parents, friends, and teachers. They will develop the habits of the people around them. So if you want your child to be honest, peaceful and happy you should be that way first.

  Baba Hari Dass

  Teacher, Children, People

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• If nature be regarded as the teacher and we poor human beings as her pupils, the human race presents a very curious picture. We all sit together at a lecture and possess the necessary principles for understanding it, yet we always pay more attention to the chatter of our fellow students than to the lecturer's discourse. Or, if our neighbor copies something down, we sneak it from him, stealing what he himself may have heard imperfectly, and add it to our own errors of spelling and opinion.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Teacher, Errors, Race

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• Well, at the end of our movie Fireproof, we released a book that my brother Stephen and I wrote called The Love Dare. It was for couples. That book had a much larger impact than we expected. As a matter of fact, if I could use the term "overwhelmed," we were. The book went on to become a New York Times bestseller and sold over five-million copies and is now in 28 different countries and languages. So, we were blessed and just surprised at how well that did.

  Alex Kendrick

  Country, Brother, New York

  "'Courageous' filmmaker Alex Kendrick branches out with a new book, a new Erwin Brothers comedy and a new production company". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. July 2013.

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• In the same period that the Americans have lived under one constitution our French friends notched up five. A Punch cartoon has a 19th century Englishman asking a librarian for a copy of the French constitution, only to be told: 'I am sorry Sir, we do not stock periodicals.'

  Margaret Thatcher

  Sorry, Cartoon, Asking

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Everyday we just copy&paste ourselves from the previous day instead of creating a new blank page and be something different and original.

  Marcelo Goianira

  Creating, Everyday, Different

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• I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.

  Alice Walker

  Unique, Self, Role Models

  Alice Walker (1997). “The Same River Twice”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit Vita Nova. Under such rubric I find written many things; and among them the words which I purpose to copy into this little book; if not all of them, at the least their substance.

  Dante Alighieri

  Memories, Book, Purpose

  Dante Alighieri (2015). “La Vita Nuova: The New Life”, p.12, The Floating Press

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• You know how some people will say to writers, "Why don't you just write a romance novel that sells a bunch of copies and then you'll have the money to do the kind of writing you want to do"? I always say that I don't have the skills or knowledge to do that. It would be just as hard for me to do that kind of writing as it would be to learn how to do any number of productive careers that I can't manage to make myself do.

  Lucy Corin

  Writing, Skills, Careers

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book, and go about trying to buy up all existing copies.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Book, Blessing, Giving

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art”, p.25, Zondervan

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• I'd like to be an original, to be myself and not a pale copy of anyone else.

  Julie Andrews

  Originality, Pale, Originals

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• After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.

  Wallace Shawn

  Jobs, Thinking, Clerks

  "Wallace Shawn juggles acting jobs and play writing". Interview with Dany Margolies, www.reuters.com. February 1, 2011.

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• When I put out the records, when I make a distribution deal, those distributors tell me who they sell it to and how many copies. So I want nothing less.

  Gail Zappa

  Records, Want, Deals

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, Writing, Light

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.116

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• God makes originals not carbon copies. It's okay to be inspired by someone, but be bold enough to be yourself.

  Tony Gaskins

  Being Yourself, Inspired, Enough

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• That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue.
  [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Offering, Rewards, Virtue

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• I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.

  Olivia de Havilland

  Typewriters, Cinema, Film

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• I learned an invaluable lesson from a kid in Argentina when we were playing Buenos Aires in 2002. I came out of the hotel and this 16-year-old-boy asked me to sign his copy of my Six Wives of Henry VIII album. As I was signing it I asked him 'what does a 16 year-old like about this old music?' and he looked at me, quite hurt, and said, 'it might be old to you, Mr Wakeman, but I only heard it for the first time last week. When you hear something for the first time, it's new.' I've never forgotten that.

  Rick Wakeman

  Hurt, Kids, Boys

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• When you write a piece of software you assume a certain type of hardware. If you assume hardware that's too powerful then you can't sell many copies cause very few people have that machine. If you assume hardware that's too simple your product can't do as much.

  Bill Gates

  Powerful, Writing, Simple

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• I remember as a child I just would copy everyone else's handwriting, and now I have sort of a version of my sister's handwriting. And I feel like - sometimes I feel that way for my voice.

  Cecile McLorin Salvant

  Children, Voice, Handwriting

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We have a name for things that don't copy themselves: dead.

  Cory Doctorow

  Names

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• A People Magazine article in 1982 referred to him as the late Abe Vigoda. The very-much-alive Vigoda placed an ad in Variety with him in a coffin holding a copy of People Magazine.

  Audie Cornish

  People, Coffins, Magazines

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I just don't want to copy the current trends or do movies for teenagers. I want people to get more out of movies.

  Clint Eastwood

  Teenager, People, Trends

  "Gran Torino - Clint Eastwood interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• What is thy thought? There is no miracle?
  There is a great one, which thou hast not read,
  And never shalt escape. Thyself, O man,
  Thou art the miracle. Ay, thou thyself,
  Being in the world and of the world, thyself,
  Hast breathed in breath from Him that made the world.
  Thou art thy Father's copy of Himself,--
  Thou art thy Father's miracle.

  Jean Ingelow

  Art, Father, Men

  Jean Ingelow, “A Story Of Doom: Book Vii.”

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• Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.

  Samuel Johnson

  Attitude, Endeavor, Falsehood

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• Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.

  Peg Bracken

  Restaurants, Cooks, Seems

  Peg Bracken (1969). “I Didn't Come Here to Argue”

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