Copies Quotes

• There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

  Berenice Abbott

  Inspirational, Teacher, Ruins

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• If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.

  Bill Walsh

  Errors, Phones, Editing

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• A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

  Rebecca West

  Funny, Art, Humor

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• I own four copies of Robin WIlliams's Live on Broadway comedy special for HBO. One in Wilmington, one in L.A., one in my trailer, and one at my parents' house. I can watch it over and over again and it never gets old. He is the funniest, wittiest man on the planet!

  Sophia Bush

  Men, Hbo, House

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• In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Truth, Philosophical, Imitation

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• I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style.

  Michael Hutchence

  Attitude, Style, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

  Christopher Lasch

  Knowledge, Reality, Observers

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• Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

  Andy Rooney

  Technology, America, Firefighter

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• If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Dec 28, 2016

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• Good artists copy, great artists steal.

  Pablo Picasso

  Creativity, Artist, Small Jobs

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• You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.

  Billie Holiday

  Music, Real, Mean

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.61, Broadway Books

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• I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

  Jose Saramago

  Positive, Hero, Writing

  "Interview with Jose Saramago, Author of Blindness". Political Affairs Magazine Interview, www.politicalaffairs.net. March 2006.

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• I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

  Erma Bombeck

  Clothes, Lucky, Realizing

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• Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb.

  Brian Setzer

  Stupid, Voice, Dumb

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• When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school.

  Jensen Ackles

  School, Pajamas, Middle

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• History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Fake People, Reality, History

  "The Old Regime and the Revolution". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, p. 88, 1856.

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• My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.

  Randy Bachman

  Song, Young

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.

  Robert Plant

  Style, Today, Zeppelins

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• I'm starting to see players copy what I do. I'm flattered.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Player, Starting

  FaceBook post by Dennis Rodman from Jul 28, 2016

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• Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

  William James

  Truth, Guides, Sensible

  William James (2015). “The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding”, p.31, 谷月社

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• Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages.

  Dean Koontz

  Good Day, Average, Please Me

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• I think it'd be a real nightmare to put a record out and sell 20 million copies and then that's it.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Real, Thinking, Records

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• Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies.

  Irving Berlin

  Song, Hate, Kids

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• The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Genius, Way, Stealing

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• Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.

  Vladimir Putin

  Second Chance, Russia, Roots

  "Russia after Yeltsin". Book by Vladimir M. Tikhomirov, 2001.

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