Originals Quotes - Page 8

• I'm writing a film called 'Bug.' It's an original script, and it's not about killer insects. It's a thriller set in a high school. The bug of the title refers to a surveillance device.

  Wes Craven

  Writing, School, Titles

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• We've proven to be quite flexible and adept in the way that we've changed what was the original pattern of air activities into something that's now very focused on the battlefield.

  Wesley Clark

  Air, Patterns, Way

  "NATO: Aerial photo may show mass graves in Kosovo". www.cnn.com. April 11, 1999.

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• The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators.

  Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin

  Judging, England, Craftsman

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• Right now, 70 percent of the people don't have computers. And where they're needed most, people don't have them. We think this will enable anyone to own a computer. We're aiming at everybody who uses a computer as an information access device. The original idea was to build one cheaply enough to put one on every desk.

  Larry Ellison

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• Mountain climbing was my original sport ... and I've never tired from the satisfaction of getting to the top of a mountain.

  Steve Fossett

  Sports, Tired, Climbing

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• Deadwood was a place created by a series of accidents. A kind of original sin.

  David Milch

  Kind, Sin, Accidents

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• I admire anyone who can come up with something original. But not originality alone, because there can be originality in stupidity, with no musical description of any emotion or any beauty the man has seen, or any kind of life he has lived.

  Charles Mingus

  Men, Stupidity, Musical

  "What Is A Jazz Composer?". Charles Mingus' liner notes for "Let My Children Hear Music", album composed by Charles Mingus, January/February 1972.

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• Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil

  David Ricardo

  Earth, Soil, Portions

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• If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.

  Gerhard Richter

  Play, Choices, Important

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• My work is always a ready-made... cultural, political, or social, and also it could be art - to make people re-look at what we have done, its original position, to create new possibilities.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, People, Political

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• The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Technology, Feelings, Texting

  "Carol Ann Duffy: 'Poems are a form of texting'". Interview with Joanna Moorhead, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2011.

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• If you're lucky enough to use something you see in a dream, it is purely original. It's not in the world - it's in your head. I think that is amazing.

  Alexander McQueen

  Dream, Thinking, Lucky

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• I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.

  Vernon L. Smith

  Cards, Social, Stills

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• Copying is an art in itself, demanding the greatest technical ability, especially in watercolour. However well done, the copy invariably lacks that nascent, ineffable, but definite quality, provided by the furious enthusiasm with which an original is created, an essential spontaneity that defies reproduction.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Art, Quality, Copying

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• The risk is that you furnish the project with new suggestions to try and freshen it up; it's not always beneficial. You risk betraying the original intention with the story, forgetting what it is you really want to portray.

  Lars von Trier

  Betrayal, Risk, Trying

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• The original form is the contagion of fear and alarm. You're in a flock of birds. One bird suddenly takes off. You have no time to wait and see what's going on. You take off, too. Otherwise, you're lunch.

  Frans de Waal

  Lunch, Bird, Waiting

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• Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an opportunity that leads inventors and businesspeople to seek new ways to satisfy the shortages. Some fail, at cost to themselves. A few succeed, and the final result is that we end up better off than if the original shortage problems had never arisen. That is, we need our problems, though this does not imply that we should purposely create additional problems for ourselves.

  Julian Simon

  Running, Opportunity, Growth

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• If you train yourself in memory work, you fearlessly attack and rearrange your material, for you can retain your original impression.

  John F. Carlson

  Memories, Impression, Materials

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.140, Courier Corporation

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• In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone else's song, has a responsibility to make a distinct and original statement.

  Todd Boyd

  Song, Responsibility, Love Is

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• The immortality of great art seems bound up with the inevitable loss of its original surface meaning and its rebirth in the spirit of every new age.

  Anton Ehrenzweig

  Art, Loss, Age

  Anton Ehrenzweig (1967). “The Hidden Order of Art: A Study in the Psychology of Artistic Imagination”, p.77, Univ of California Press

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• Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks original at first.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Years, Ugly, Firsts

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• Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Home, Trying, Places To Go

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• The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Hate, Struggle, Conformity

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• It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.

  E. J. Hughes

  Nice, Europe, Would Be

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• Basically, the UBR is a relic of an earlier vision for UDDI. The original vision for UDDI was as a standard that would help companies conduct business with each other in an automated fashion. The idea was that companies could publish how they wanted to interact, and other companies could find that information and use it to establish a relationship.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Fashion, Ideas, Vision

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