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• Sometimes when I talk to little children I remind them of the fact that when I was growing up myself, I used to play with frog eggs and tadpoles and I used to walk in the field, I used to literally copy whatever my mother was doing on the land. And that may be the reason why I eventually developed the passion for green and for the Earth. So it is extremely important for adults and especially those who are in charge of cities to make sure that we do not lose touch with the land and with the environment. And especially our children.

  Wangari Maathai

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The developing world can just do things that are extensive or horizontal, that basically copy. The developed world needs to do things that are intensive or vertical, where we take our civilization to the next level.

  Peter Thiel

  Civilization, Needs, Next Level

  Interview with Victoria Brown, bigthink.com. November 15, 2010.

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• I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.

  Mary Karr

  Book, Profound, Degrees

  Interview with Amy Cavanaugh, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else which makes you unique. The problem with most people is that they spend their lives trying to emulate others and so we have lots of copies but few originals.

  Walt Disney

  Unique, People, Trying

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• We're taking requests from customers who are looking for certain used copies. We already found 18 to 20 Louis L'Amour books that were on a customer's request list.

  Andrew Goodman

  Book, Lists, Used

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• I cannot copy nature in a servile way; I am forced to interpret nature and submit it to the spirit of the picture. From the relationship I have found in all the tones there must result a living harmony of colors, a harmony analogous to that of a musical composition.

  Henri Matisse

  Color, Musical, Way

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1973). “Matisse on art”

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• I used to carry a copy of Ulysses with me everywhere just in case I was knocked down by a bus. It seemed more important than having clean underwear.

  Craig Raine

  Clean Underwear, Important, Ulysses

  "Genius or fallen idol?". Interviews with Sam Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2004.

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• Someday it will dawn on man that woman does not read the wonderful books with which he has filled his libraries, and though she may well admire his marvelous works of art in museums she herself will rarely create, only copy.

  Esther Vilar

  Art, Book, Men

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• We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldnt have even a fraction of my current success.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Ideas, Proud, Fractions

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• Ever heard of anyone executed for distributing copies of Grimm's fairy tales? Imagine people trying to smuggle copies of Hans Christian Andersen's works into China? The Bible, which has been called a mere collection of myths has suffered all of these fates: even today, copies of the Bible are banned and burned. There's something about this ancient book that threatens and frightens those in power.

  Eric Metaxas

  Christian, Book, Fate

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• I feel responsible to make something original as a Japanese artist. There are lots of singers and guitarists, but I feel that on stage its meaningless to copy something someone has done before.

  Miyavi

  Artist, Done, Singers

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• Our [Virginia's] act for freedom of religion is extremely applauded. The Ambassadors and ministers of the several nations of Europe resident at this court have asked me copies of it to send to their sovereigns, and it is inserted at full length in several books now in the press; among others, in the new Encyclopédie. I think it will produce considerable good even in those countries where ignorance, superstition, poverty and oppression of body and mind in every form, are so firmly settled on the mass of the people, that their redemption from them can never be hoped.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Book, Ignorance

  Thomas Jefferson (1830). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.44

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• I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. So, the best way to get them to read, is to read. The best way to get them to do anything is to do it yourself, and they will absolutely copy you. That way, you don't have to worry about what's supposedly age appropriate, a child will pick something up when the child is ready.

  Alice Walker

  Children, Worry, Age

  "Alice in Walkerland!". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.

  Flannery O'Connor

  House, Yards, Biographies

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.290, Macmillan

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• It is better to invert reality than to copy it.

  Giuseppe Verdi

  Reality, Invert

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• I have a look that girls want to copy.

  Avril Lavigne

  Girl, Looks, Want

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• I would much rather read a book about Ty Cobb, who was quite possibly a sociopath. It makes for more interesting copy. Some of the most memorable characters in literature were villains.

  Jonathan Weeks

  Book, Character, Memorable

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• I hate to say it, but she's trying to copy Miley [Cyrus] and Miley's trying to copy her. The era of Madonna is over.

  Andrea Tantaros

  Hate, Trying, Eras

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• When I'm writing a book - say I'm going to write a parenting book. I'll go out and buy the 100 top parenting books and I will read those, not so I can copy them for sure.

  Larry Winget

  Book, Writing, I Can

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

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• Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under its own name...without legal restraints to such copying, companies like Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art.

  Bill Gates

  Art, Names, Apples

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• There's more emphasis on art and culture in Europe than there is in the United States and I think that a lot of American directors and writers are just trying to copy other American horror films, they don't pick up much in the way that European filmmakers do.

  Wes Craven

  Art, Thinking, Europe

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• I was with Roy Thomas on a panel and he turned to me and said, "You know, your name is on the cover a magazine every month." I said, "Really?" He pulled out a copy of "Destroyer," and said, "If you cover up the DEST you've got Royer on the cover every month."

  Mike Royer

  Names, Cover Ups, Magazines

  "Interview: Mike Royer Talks Classic Cartoons, Jack Kirby and Much More". Interview with Bryan Stroud, comicsbulletin.com. January 30, 2015.

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• I had some very, very fond memories of the people I worked with and the authors I worked with - and I won't mention any names - but as I have been traveling through rural Maine over the past few weeks, one of my favorite things to do is to go into bookstores on the side of rural routes and paw through the old copies of Tom Clancy and Trevanian books they have in there for weird old 1970s thrillers that I haven't read yet.

  John Hodgman

  Memories, Book, Past

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• What I've discovered more recently is copies of books that I didn't represent, but that my boss represented when I assisted her on the dollar pile. I won't mention any names, but it is this profoundly bittersweet time of realizing, "Oh, I had a wonderful time working on this book and now it is a dollar relic on the side of the road."

  John Hodgman

  Book, Names, Boss

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• I wrote a script, and I gave it to a guy who reads scripts, and he read it, and he liked it, but he said he thinks I ought to re-write it. I said, "Fuck that - I'll just make a copy!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  "Comedy Central Presents (Mitch Hedberg)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. January 5, 1999.

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