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• ...[Changers] were a threat to identity, a challenge to the individualism even of those they were never likely to impersonate. It had nothing to do with souls or physical or spiritual possession; it was, as the Idirans well understood, the behavouristic copying of another which revolted. Individuality, the thing which most humans held more precious than anything else about themselves, was somehow cheapened by the ease with which a Changer could ignore it as a limitation and use it as a disguise.

  Iain Banks

  Spiritual, Challenges, Soul

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• Even if there were no illegal copying, the advent of digital distribution will put a lot of stress on the movie and music industry. When the distribution costs comes down, that puts more price pressure on the rest of the cost.

  Edward Felten

  Stress, Pressure, Digital

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• Copying is the greatest form of flattery, I guess. I am actually a little surprised that Vincent Lo didn't try and make a deal to be on The Apprentice,.

  Donald Trump

  Trying, Littles, Flattery

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• I read an article on me once that described my machine-method of silk-screen copying and painting: 'What a bold and audacious solution, what depths of the man are revealed in this solution!' What does that mean?

  Andy Warhol

  Mean, Men, Depth

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• We always worry that we are copying someone else, that we don't have our own style. Don't worry. Writing is a communal act. Contrary to popular belief, a writer is not Prometheus alone on a hill full of fire. We are very arrogant to think we alone have a totally original mind. We are carried on the backs of all the writers who came before us. We live in the present with all the history, ideas, and soda pop of this time. It all gets mixed up in our writing.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Thinking, Fire

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.102, Shambhala Publications

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• Given that you'll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it? What can you do to make consumers happy enough with legitimate use of the system that they'll be willing to pay for it?

  Edward Felten

  Use, Pay, Able

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• Charlotte, who had sagged back in her chair, her eyes half-closed, said, “Will, I have already been up all night copying down the relevant parts. Much of it was—” “Gibberish?” Jem suggested. “Pornographic?” said Will at the same time. “Could be both,” said Will. “Haven’t you ever heard of pornographic gibberish before?

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Night, Half

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “Clockwork Princess”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn't try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Home, Fighting, Men

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• Charlie Christian showed me a lot, and was a great help, but even then, I realised that if I was going to make it, it was no use copying Charlie

  Barney Kessel

  Funny, Inspiring, Music

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• There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Book, People

  "Journals". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, Harper (January 17, 1837), 1959.

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• I can't catch her by copying her, I can't draw her with a borrowed stencil. She is all the things a lover should be and quite a few a lover should not. Pin her down? She's not a butterfly. I'm not a wrestler. She's not a target. I'm not a gun. Tell you what she is? She's not Lot no. 27 and I'm not one to brag.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Butterfly, Gun, Target

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• The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Men, Years, Great Year

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• You take girls, for example. They're copying their moms and magazines and everything to know how to act around guys. I mean it's not like in movies where girls like assholes or anything like that. It's not that easy. They just like somebody that can give them purpose.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Girl, Mom, Mean

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Implementing best practice is copying yesterday; innovation is inventing tomorrow.

  Paul Sloane

  Best Practices, Yesterday, Thought Provoking

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• The fact that Gene Simmon's son is a manga-ka disturbs me more than whether he's really copying or not.

  Tite Kubo

  Son, Facts, Genes

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• They're headed for some place called the Great Barrier." "A place that doesn't exist." Liv was shaking her head, checking the rotating dials on her wrist. Link pushed away his plate, still covered with food. "So let me get this straight. We're gonna go down into the Tunnels and find this moon outta time with Liv's fancy watch?" "Selenometer." Liv didn't look up from copying numbers from the dials into her red notebook.

  Kami Garcia

  Notebook, Moon, Tunnels

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• I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

  Cindy Sherman

  Art, Ideas, Cameras

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• The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.

  Lana Del Rey

  Trust No One, Needs, World

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• The first step is: accept yourself as you are; drop all shoulds. Don`t carry any ought on your heart! You are not to be somebody else; you are not expected to do something which doesn`t belong to you - you are just to be yourself. Relax! and just be yourself. Be respectful to your individuality. and have the courage to sign your own signature. Don`t go on copying others signatures.

  Rajneesh

  Being Yourself, Heart, Individuality

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• On the board was a list of words and phrases which her mother considered not suitable for use in college T-shirt design. She had been asked about them so often that in the end she had started a blacklist of banned words to which everyone could refer. Every time someone thought of a new one, she unflinchingly wrote it down... Rose read through the list, and turned back to her letter. These are the words I learned to spell in Mummy's art class today, she wrote, and sighed a little as she began the tedious job of copying from the board.

  Hilary McKay

  Mother, Art, Jobs

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• Knowledge passes from dance teacher into the student through the process of mane, which is often translated as imitation, but learning to dance is more a process of total identification than of simple copying. We repeat the movements of our teachers until we can duplicate them exactly, until, in a sense, we have absorbed the teacher's mastery into ourselves. Artistic technique must be fully integrated into the cells of our bodies if we are to use it to express what is in our hearts, and this takes many years of practice.

  Mineko Iwasaki

  Dance, Teacher, Heart

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• It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.

  Francis Crick

  Genetics, Materials, Mechanism

  "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids," Nature, 25 Apr. 1953. Coauthored with James D.Watson.

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• For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself. From within, I couldn't decide what to do. Unable to see, I heard my name being called. Then I walked outside.

  Rumi

  Years, Names, People

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2005). “The Rumi Collection”, p.181, Shambhala Publications

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• Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Innovation, Insightful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.220, David R. Godine Publisher

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• We shouldn't be copying what we see. We should try to find our own sense of style, to believe in ourselves.

  Donatella Versace

  Believe, Style, Trying

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