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• You were born original don't die a copy

  Ben Mikaelsen

  Born, Originals, Dies

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• A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.

  Louis Armstrong

  Cat, People, Lines

  Alluding to his many imitators. Quoted in David Pickering Brewer's Twentieth Century Music (1994).

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• I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn't want to copy anybody's style.

  Jana Novotna

  Sports, Play, Tennis

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• If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.

  Yogi Berra

  Motivational, Magic, Coaching

  Yogi Berra (2010). “What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings themselves. The copies can only repeat themselves word for word. A virus is a copy. You can pretty it up, cut it up, scramble it - it will reassemble in the same form.

  William S. Burroughs

  Cutting, Viruses, Form

  William S. Burroughs (2013). “Cities of the Red Night: A Novel”, p.166, Holt Paperbacks

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• The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic.

  Michael Schenker

  Beautiful, Art, Expression

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• The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good.

  Betty Dodson

  Thinking, Views, Media

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• People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Oliver Goldsmith (1835). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life and Notes”, p.86

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• There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.

  Francis Arinze

  Culture, World, Today

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• The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

  William Blake

  Artist, Differences, Thought Provoking

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.2226, Delphi Classics

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• The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Mother, Wall, Artist

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  I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Mistake, Guitar

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• Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Believe, Marketing

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• To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Imitation, Oneself

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• People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.

  Elvis Presley

  People, Style, Singing

  Elvis Presley (2007). “Elvis: Inspirations”, p.137, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads, where they are safe.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Safe

  "If you enjoyed those 'Peter Kay' one-liners in your inbox, they were probably written by Emo Philips" by James Kettle, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2010.

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• My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

  Manuel Puig

  Pleasure

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• Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Creative, Stealing

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  If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

  Billie Holiday

  Real, Mean, Two

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.61, Broadway Books

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• As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

  William Godwin

  Reading, Thinking, Pupils

  William Godwin (1823). “The Enquirer”, p.130

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• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

  T. S. Eliot

  Stealing Things, Immature, Different

  1920 The Sacred Wood,'Philip Massinger'.

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• To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense

  Charles Churchill

  Want, Faults, Fame

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• The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.

  Jules Renard

  Fashion, Writing, Air

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.79, Tin House Books

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• No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.

  Renata Adler

  Secret, Persons, Documents

  Renata Adler (2013). “Pitch Dark”, p.35, New York Review of Books

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• I pattern my actions and life after what I want. No two people are alike. You might admire attributes in others, but use these only as a guide in improving yourself in your own unique way. I don't go for carbon copies. Individualism is sacred!

  Richard Chamberlain

  Unique, Two, Carbon Footprint

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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