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• I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

  Jose Saramago

  Positive, Hero, Writing

  "Interview with Jose Saramago, Author of Blindness". Political Affairs Magazine Interview, www.politicalaffairs.net. March 2006.

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• Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

  Andy Rooney

  Technology, America, Firefighter

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• I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

  Manuel Puig

  Writing, Simple, Ukulele

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• I'm starting to see players copy what I do. I'm flattered.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Player, Starting

  FaceBook post by Dennis Rodman from Jul 28, 2016

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• There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.

  Bruce Schneier

  Excellence, Microsoft, Flight

  Bruce Schneier (2011). “Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World”, p.333, John Wiley & Sons

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• I just saw a copy of a cover of a magazine that I'm on, and it's very weird and unusual.

  Mia Kirshner

  Magazines, Saws, Unusual

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• I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.

  Laurence Olivier

  Book, Eye, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't smoke, so they never sent me a copy

  Lita Ford

  Smoke

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• On the average, five times as many people read the headlines as read the body copy.

  David Ogilvy

  Average, People, Body

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• The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Funny, Life, America

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger. Chapter: "The Spirit of the Age", p. 18, 1954.

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• Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper

  Bill Walsh

  Sports, Editors, Tools

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• I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I've fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record. I'd like it to sell millions of copies, but my self - worth is not based on chart positions.

  Roland Gift

  Self Worth, Wheels, Records

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• No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers.

  Richard Heber

  Book, Gentleman, Three

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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

  Hot, Want, Feels

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• And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.

  Lucian Freud

  Artist, Next, Interest

  Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers

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• My wife has them all in a vault... a copy of every album.

  Jerry Goldsmith

  Wife, Albums, Vaults

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• There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.

  Theodore White

  Editors, Two, Kind

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• Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.

  Moses Hadas

  Witty, Clever, Humorous

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• Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

  Jacques Lipchitz

  Inspiration, Artist, Lord

  "Living thoughts: inspiration, insight, and wisdom from sources throughout the ages" by Bernard S. Raskas, (p. 22), 1976.

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• The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.

  Ed Bradley

  News, Sitting, Done

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• I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it.

  Tom Glazer

  Years, Special, Serious

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• We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

  Ferdinand Mount

  Unique, Doubt, Literature

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• It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection.

  Maurice Wilkins

  Life, Science, Growth

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• When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school.

  Jensen Ackles

  School, Pajamas, Middle

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• Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies.

  Irving Berlin

  Song, Hate, Kids

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