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• Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul and purity. A wonderful young voice.

  Sarah Vaughan

  Music, Voice, Soul

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get lost in your subject.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Elderly, Advice

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• Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Fashion, Clothes, Style

  1954 A Shocking Life, ch.9.

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• It is suicidal for other runners to copy my hill sessions without adequate background.

  Pekka Vasala

  Running, Suicidal, Adequate

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• Each individual`s way is going to be different. Never follow anybody. That is the greatest calamity that can happen to a man. Once you start following somebody else, you become a carbon copy. You become an imitation.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Different, Way

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• [If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if let alone, but if persecuted, it will be generally read. Every man in the United States will think it a duty to buy a copy, in vindication of his right to buy and to read what he pleases.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Book, Men, Thinking

  Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.340

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• And then certainly, whatsoever you do - your character, your behaviour - is yours, authentically yours. It has your signature on it. Then you are not a carbon copy, you are original. The Zen people call it finding the original face.

  Rajneesh

  Character, People, Meditation

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• Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Men, Clothes

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• Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by their peers as committing an inexcusable crime. Yet the sad fact is that the history of science swarms with cases of outright fakery and instances of scientists who unconsciously distorted their work by seeing it through lenses of passionately held beliefs.

  Martin Gardner

  Real, Science, Self

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• Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.

  Robert Henri

  Drawing, Different, Realizing

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Real, Looks, Faces

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1884). “Cicero de Amicitia (on Friendship) and Scipio's Dream”

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• [A writer] must try to think clearly, to feel deeply, to write honestly. If he is fortunate he will make a living, but his work will never be anymore essentially clear and deep and honest than he himself is, and he will be judged finally not for how many copies his books have sold, but for what they have done to enrich the lives of their readers, now and in time to come.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

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• A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true for photography. Unless there is something a little incomplete and a little strange, it will simply look like a copy of something pretty. We won't take an interest in it.

  John Loengard

  Beautiful, Photography, Thinking

  John Loengard (1987). “Pictures under discussion”, Amphoto Books

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• For example, both humans and chimps have a broken copy of a gene that in other mammals helps make vitamin C. ... It's hard to imagine how there could be stronger evidence for common ancestry of chimps and humans. ... Despite some remaining puzzles, there's no reason to doubt that Darwin had this point right, that all creatures on earth are biological relatives.

  Michael Behe

  Broken, Doubt, Stronger

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• Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past.

  Peter Thiel

  Past, Opportunity, Causes

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.33, Crown Business

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• Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The
  Labs.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Labs, Rooms, Linux

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• The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Faithful, Style, Mind

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• That's exactly how I want you to feel. When you finish this book, I want you to be filled with curiosity. I want you to say, “I have to find out what happens next,” and then I want you to head to your nearest library or bookstore to pick up a copy of Wuthering Heights.

  Clare B. Dunkle

  Book, Curiosity, Library

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• I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty.

  Brittany Snow

  Birthday, Party, Parent

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• I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.

  Ben Jonson

  Giving, True Or False, News

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1816). “The Works: In 9 Volumes. ... containing Masques at court”, p.351

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• You can't write a song out of thin air. You have to feel and know what you are writing about. ... Talent is only a starting point. You've got to keep working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there. ... Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it. ... The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. ... After you get what you want you don't want it. ... Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies. ... The song is ended, but as the songwriter wrote, the melody lingers on.

  Irving Berlin

  Song, Hate, Writing

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• We can and should have an abundance of trails for walking, cycling, and horseback riding, in and close to our cities. In the backcountry we need to copy the great Appalachian Trail in all parts of America.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Cycling, Should Have, Cities

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.161, Best Books on

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• The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Flower, Roots, Heaven

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

  James Anthony Froude

  Law, Imperfection, Eternity

  James Anthony Froude (1871). “Calvinism”, p.10

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• The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Imitation, Absurdity, Originals

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