Originals Quotes - Page 33

• Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Reading, Thinking, Mere

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.492, Oxford University Press

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• When I went to do "Carson" that night, they wanted us to do two songs, but we were a brand new band. "Conga" hadn't even hit the top 10 yet. They go, "Do you think you could do something that people know, because we want you to do a second song, but not two originals, because we don't want to lose the audience, just in case."

  Gloria Estefan

  Song, Night, Thinking

  "Singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. October 1, 2013.

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• I am always looking for what I think are original voices.

  Lorne Michaels

  Thinking, Voice

  "Marc Maron finally gets the truth about his failed "SNL" audition from Lorne Michaels" by Anna Silman, www.salon.com. November 9, 2015.

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• Think about what you do from 9 to 5 each weekday. Now imagine you put that much effort into something you really believe in. It's incredible what you can accomplish when you have both the interest to do something original (which everyone has) and the time to make it happen (which few have).

  Ben Clymer

  Believe, Thinking, Effort

  "Careers In Fashion". Interview with Sachin Bhola, www.askmen.com.

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• I was rejected in school because I didn't look like the big-breasted, beautiful girls. I was awkward and sad. My mother always said, "Be original!" but I didn't understand until I changed to be like everyone else.

  Sandra Bullock

  Beautiful, Girl, Mother

  "America asks, Sandra Bullock answers" by Kate Meyers, www.nbcnews.com. August 05, 2010.

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• Hollywood's thinking is very typical. And it's just really predictable too. And I think at Hollywood, these box office movies are flopping. I mean, there hasn't been an original thought coming out of Hollywood since the '80s.

  Andrea Tantaros

  Mean, Thinking, Office

  Source: deadline.com

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• I remember when I wrote a piece, "Blood on the Fields," it was a while ago, it was about slavery and about two characters, and I studied so much of music, I would always go back to the original documents, and as much as I can get original chants and slave chants and different type of beats and rhythms and ring shout.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Character, Blood, Two

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You don't get on by being original. You don't get on by being bright. You don't get on by being strong. You get on by being a subtle crook.

  Hilary Mantel

  Strong, Crooks, Subtle

  Hilary Mantel (2012). “Wolf Hall & Bring Up The Bodies: Two-Book Edition”, p.59, HarperCollins UK

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• In order to be creative, you don't have to be original.

  Ray Bradbury

  Order, Creative, Be Creative

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• Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense. They give the name of "God" to some vague abstraction which they have created for themselves; having done so they can pose before all the world as deists, as believers of God, and they can even boast that they have recognized a higher, purer concept of God, notwithstanding that their God is not nothing more than an insubstantial shadow and no longer the mighty personality of religious doctrines.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Names, Giving

  Sigmund Freud, Scientific Literature Corporation (1961). “The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

  Mary Oliver

  Art, Wilderness, Fine

  Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes.

  Mark Twain

  Shoes, Greek, Naked

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• Roberto Calasso's survey of the renewed interest in myth demonstrates how decisive the gods' influence was on modern literature. Calasso is not only immensely learned; he is one of the most original thinkers and writers we have today.

  Charles Simic

  Today, Literature, Influence

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• In the original 'Star Wars' movie, there is a small toaster-sized and shaped robot on the Death Star that guides Stormtroopers to where they need to go. I always liked that robot because I could imagine how to build it - and it served a real purpose.

  Colin Angle

  Stars, Real, War

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• That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now, is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed, and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all, to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Successful, Government, Should Have

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.36, Penguin

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• The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone, with whom no one of these ideas was original, combines all together, and produces what is justly called a new invention.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ideas, Together, New Inventions

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.100

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• The American citizen lives in a world where fantasy is more real than reality, where the image has more dignity than its original. We hardly dare face our bewilderment, because our ambiguous experience is so pleasantly irridescent, and the solace of belief in contrived reality is so thoroughly real. We have become eager accessories to the great hoaxes of the age. These are the hoaxes we play on ourselves.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Real, Play, Age

  "The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America" by Daniel J. Boorstin, Vintage edition (p. 37), 1992.

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• Some may more quietly commemorate the suffering, struggle, and sacrifice that has triumphed over much of what was wrong with the original document, and observe the anniversary with hopes not realized and promises not fulfilled. I plan to celebrate the bicentennial of the Constitution as a living document, including the Bill of Rights and the other amendments protecting individual freedoms and human rights.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Struggle, Sacrifice, Rights

  Thurgood Marshall, Mark V. Tushnet (2001). “Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences”, p.285, Chicago Review Press

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• Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a scarcely legible hieroglyphic; the language it was written in dies, a learned education and an imaginative effort are requisite to catch even a vestige of its original force. Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.

  George Santayana

  Effort, Mind, Age

  George Santayana (1932). “The Life of Reason”, p.74, Library of Alexandria

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• Anybody who has read any biblical scholarship knows that every scholar struggles over completely intractable problems with the original texts, or what they have to work from. It's one of the great, powerful, mysterious objects that have come down through history. This does not translate into literal interpretation for me.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Powerful, Struggle, Biblical

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In part, it's so difficult to come up with something original, to come up with a character nowadays. If you created a globetrotting adventurer, he'd be compared to Indiana Jones. If you created a super spy, he'd be compared to James Bond.

  Marc Guggenheim

  Character, Spy, Indiana

  "'Arrow's Marc Guggenheim Talks New Comic 'Jonas Quantum,' DC Crossovers & More". Interview with Andrew Dyce, screenrant.com. May 13, 2015.

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• I have a notion that there's a Star Wars out there waiting to be made, and I'm not sure it's the next Star Wars. I think it's something else that will be fresh and original.

  Kevin Feige

  Stars, War, Thinking

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Each week I am forced to revise my original opinion that Facebook is a great innovation for keeping people in touch, to believing that it is merely a canvas for members to act out strange, unresolved conflicts and desires.

  Emily Yoffe

  Believe, People, Innovation

  "Slate: Advice from 'Dear Prudence' on Mom's facial hair, proselytizing bosses, wedding boycotts and family rifts". Q&As with Prudie, www.washingtonpost.com. November 9, 2009.

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• We now live in a world both in film and television where everything is based on something. You point out, "Star Wars" was an original screenplay, "Raiders of the Lost Ark," an original screenplay, "Ghostbusters" an original screenplay, "Back to the Future." All these things that people love were original ideas many years ago.

  Alfred Gough

  Stars, War, Years

  "‘Into the Badlands’ Creators On Attempting Something That’s Never Been Tried on TV". Interview with Liz Shannon Miller, www.indiewire.com. November 18, 2015.

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• I always go back to the original material. I want a good connection as the composer and writer of the score to the director and to the source material. It's really important.

  Howard Shore

  Important, Directors, Connections

  Source: collider.com

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