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

  Julie Andrews

  Pale, Copies, Originals

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• What passes for an original opinion is, generally, merely an original phrase. Old lamps for new - yes; but it is always the same oil in the lamp.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Oil, Lamps, Phrases

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• I think we ought to decide that man-hating is not only respectable but honorable. To be a misandrist a woman needs considerable ingenuity, originality, and resilience. A misogynist requires no such resources.

  Joanna Russ

  Hate, Men, Thinking

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• When it comes to fashion, I'm just inspired by anyone who has their own flair or piece on anything. I love originality. I love when people bring some bold and don't do what's been done or being done. I don't think I have anyone in particular. Just anyone who's original really inspires me.

  Blake Michael

  Fashion, Thinking, People

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

  Frank Crowninshield

  Men, Genius, Mets

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• Design is not the act of amazing an audience with the novelty of forms or materials; it is the originality that repeatedly extracts astounding ideas from the crevices of the very commonness of everyday life.

  Kenya Hara

  Ideas, Design, Everyday

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• Despite its self-regard, and much like a society of devout followers, the art world relies on consensus as heavily as it depends on individual analysis or critical thinking. Althought the art world reveres the unconventional, it is rife with conformity. Artists make works that "looks like art" and behave in ways that enhance stereotypes. (...) Originality is not always rewarded, but some people take real risks and innovate, which gives a raison d'être to the rest

  Sarah Thornton

  Art, Real, Thinking

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• Strive for originality in thought and action. Be first; Be different; And be daring. Only then will you make a significant difference in this world. You may even attain greatness.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Greatness, Differences, Firsts

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• All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry, with competent erudition; a mind depending more on its correctness than its originality, and on its memory rather than on its invention.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Memories, Teaching, Should Have

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.161

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• I am a Californian, and we have twice the individuality and originality of any people in the United States. We always get quite huffy when we are spoken of as merely Americans.

  Gertrude Atherton

  California, People, Individuality

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• I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct.

  Steve Martin

  Fame, Comic, Stand Up Comedy

  Steve Martin (2008). “Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I sang a song in Hindi; nobody even knew what that was. Singing about Native American issues, nobody did that... I had no reason to want to copy anybody else... All I had was my originality.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Song, Native American, Issues

  "The Fierce, Childlike Creativity of Buffy Sainte-Marie". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. July 9, 2015.

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• Some people say I was very brave, but I really just didn't know any better. All I had was my originality.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  People, Brave, Knows

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Originality cannot be a goal. It is simply inevitable. The truly pathbreaking step can never be predicted, and certainly not by the person who makes it at the time he makes it. He clears as he goes, evolves his own techniques, devises his own tools, ignores where he must. And his path cannot be retraced, because each of us is an original being.

  Harry Partch

  Goal, Steps, Technique

  Harry Partch (2009). “Genesis of a Music: An Account of a Creative Work, Its Roots, and Its Fulfillments”, p.11, Da Capo Press

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• It's incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking.

  Ronan Farrow

  Thinking, Voice, Servant

  "Ronan Farrow making mark as diplomat at young age". Interview with Leah Garchik, www.sfgate.com. May 16, 2012.

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• In the age of mediocrity and clones, John Stowell's uniqueness and originality are a breath of fresh air. I love playing with him.

  Paul Horn

  Air, Age, Mediocrity

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• In this world, one thing you should definitely strive for is originality. Just be who you are, and be your own person. That's what will make you stand out.

  Nolan Gould

  Be Who You Are, World, Strive

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• Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.

  Michael Eisner

  Sometimes, Worn, Burnt Out

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• Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

  James Anthony Froude

  Nature, Men, Conformity

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.439, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• I told graduates to not be afraid to fail, and I still believe that. But today I tell you that whether you fear it or not, disappointment will come. The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

  Conan O'Brien

  Inspirational, Disappointment, Believe

  "Honorary Degree Recipient Conan O'Brien's Commencement Address to Dartmouth College Graduates". www.dartmouth.edu. 2011.

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• I am in favor of [actions] that have authenticity, roots, originality, verve, balance, taste, communicativeness, challenge, relevance to their time-in short, things that make sense.

  Vaclav Havel

  Inspirational, Roots, Challenges

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• Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dragons, People, Evil

  "Guards! Guards!". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do not.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Genius, Facts, Prophet

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.21, Routledge

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• Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

  Philip Sidney

  Rays, May, Brightness

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• Imitations only better the original.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Imitation, Originals

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