Originals Quotes - Page 34

• I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright.

  Atom Egoyan

  Writing, Play, Voice

  "Writer/Director Atom Egoyan Talks THE CAPTIVE, His Writing Process, the Non-Linear Narrative, Dark Material, REMEMBER, and More". collider.com. December 10, 2014.

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• I grew up as a fan of the original Star Trek series. When I was in middle school, I think in the 6th grade, I remember going to a book fair and finding a book called The Making of Star Trek, by Stephen Whitfield, and I grabbed it and took and home and just devoured it, over and over again. It was a really influential book. It was very nuts and bolts.

  Ronald D. Moore

  Stars, Book, Home

  Source: collider.com

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• Of all human and ancient opinions concerning religion, that seems to me the most likely and most excusable, that acknowledged God as an incomprehensible power, the original and preserver of all things, all goodness, all perfection, receiving and taking in good part the honour and reverence that man paid him, under what method, name, or ceremonies soever.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Names, Perfection

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.536, 谷月社

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• The origin of all civil government, justly established, must be a voluntary compact, between the rulers and the ruled; and must be liable to such limitations, as are necessary for the security of the absolute rights of the latter; for what original title can any man or set of men have, to govern others, except their own consent?

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Rights, Titles

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc”, p.44

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• But some, besides allegiance to their original error, possess I know not what fanciful interest in remaining hostile not so much toward the things in question as toward their discoverer.

  Galileo Galilei

  Errors, Allegiance, Interest

  "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany, 1615". sourcebooks.fordham.edu.

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• Discarding doubt is a decision to reconnect to your original self.

  Wayne Dyer

  Self, Decision, Doubt

  Wayne W. Dyer (2010). “The Power of Intention”, p.133, Hay House, Inc

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• One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Men, Average, Three

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• Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that being a natural and unalienable right. To guard a man's house as his castle, to pay public and enforce private debts with the most exact faith, can give no title to invade a man's conscience, which is more sacred than his castle, or to withhold from it that debt of protection for which the public faith is pledged by the very nature and original conditions of the social pact.

  James Madison

  Exercise, Men, Law

  James Madison (1865). “Letters and other writings of James Madison”, p.479

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• My major contribution to the format was to suggest that I be able to step out of the plot and speak directly to the audience, and then be able to go right back into the action. That was an original idea of mine; I know it was because I originally stole it from Thornton Wilder's play Our Town.

  George Burns

  Play, Ideas, Plot

  George Burns (1988). “Gracie/Caeser Spec Ed”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• I am a deeply religious person, but I belong to no denomination. I follow the spirit of God's law, not the letter of the law. One can become so attached to the outward symbols and structure of religion that one forgets its original intent - to bring one closer to God. We can only gain access to the Kingdom of God by realizing it dwells within us as well as in all humanity. Know that we are all cells in the ocean of infinity, each contributing to the others' welfare.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Religious, Ocean, Cells

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.85, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Paint, Ifs

  Ruth Fine, Georgia O'Keeffe, Barbara Buhler Lynes, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (2000). “O'Keeffe on Paper”

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• The proud spirit of the original owners of these vast prairies inherited through centuries of fierce and bloody wars for their possession, lingered last in the bosom of Sitting Bull. With his fall the nobility of the Redskin is extinguished, and what few are left are a pack of whining curs who lick the hand that smites them.

  L. Frank Baum

  War, Fall, Hands

  Saturday Pioneer editorial, December 20, 1890.

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• We believe the substance we have extracted from pitchblende contains a metal not yet observed, related to bismuth by its analytical properties. If the existence of this new metal is confirmed we propose to call it polonium, from the name of the original country of one of us.

  Marie Curie

  Country, Believe, Names

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• Y'see, when you start to lick a national problem you have to go after the fundamentables. You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source... Breathin!

  Walt Kelly

  Cutting, Air, Want

  "Pogo". Comic strip by Walt Kelly, 1948 - 1975.

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• We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Revolution, Enterprising

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• Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.

  William James

  Effort, World, Contribution

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• Original details are very ordinary, except to the mind that sees extraordinariness. it's not that we need to go to the Hopi mesas to see greatness; we need to view what we already have in a different way.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Greatness, Views, Mind

  Natalie Goldberg (1998). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, Shambhala Publications

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• Jimmy [Dean] was the most talented and original actor I ever saw work. He was also a guerrilla artist who attacked all restrictions on his sensibility. Once he pulled a switchblade and threatened to murder his director. I imitated his style in art and in life. It got me in a lot of trouble.

  Dennis Hopper

  Art, Style, Actors

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• Tradition kills originality; you keep repeating the same things in tradition! Behave like the sky; always create new and different things; be original!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sky, Different, Originality

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• According to Buddhism, each person is a Buddha who has forgotten their original nature.  If we in the pampered West, having grown up with so many advantages, could not claim our own health and our agency, preferring to see ourselves as helpless victims, then who would do it?  Who would take responsibility for the world?

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Responsibility, Buddhism, Agency

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2007). “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl”, p.280, Penguin

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• A Russian Reversal quote on Uncyclopedia's Soviet Union article? How original.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Unions, Articles, Soviet Union

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• Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitudes of history, but quite innocent of original thought.

  Edward Bernays

  Writing, Data, Mind

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• Those original, black, spirited, defiant, rebellious musical masters. Chuck Berry was one of the first masters of Les Paul's new electric guitar; he pretty much laid down the gauntlet, and I don't think anybody's ever beat him since. Way before the British Invasion, I was tuned into the black guys that created the British Invasion. Without Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Lightnin' Hopkins, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry and the Motown hits, there would be no Beatles.

  Ted Nugent

  Thinking, Guitar, Water

  "Ted Nugent & Henry Rollins: American Flag/Black Flag". Elmore Magazine Interview, www.elmoremagazine.com. November 3, 2013.

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• Everything looks like a failure in the middle. In neary every change project, doubt is cast on the original vision because problems are mounting and the end is nowhere in sight.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Sight, Doubt, Vision

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (2003). “Challenge of Organizational Change: How Companies Experience It And Leaders Guide It”, p.373, Simon and Schuster

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• While a forgery illegally exploits the elitist taste for rarity, a kitsch object insists on its anti elitist availability. The deceptive character of kitsch does not lie in whatever it may have in common with actual forgery but in its claim to supply its consumers with essentially the same kinds and qualities of beauty as those embodied in unique or rare and inaccessible originals.

  Matei Calinescu

  Lying, Character, Unique

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