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• In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first consideration... The words used, however, should be old ones.

  Fujiwara no Teika

  Expression, Firsts, Merit

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• Originality is only variation.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Variation

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• Hollywood. It lacks originality. Remake sucks.' But I had to look deeper into it from my own perspective. We are not trying to compete with the original at all and that's what allowed me to pull the trigger without any hesitancy.

  Colin Farrell

  Perspective, Trying, Hollywood

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their money according to their notions, our writers usually furnish their pages rapidly with the productions of their own soil: they run up a quickset hedge, or plant a poplar, and get trees and hedges of this fashion much faster than the former landlords procured their timber. The greater part of our writers, in consequence, have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them; and those who never quote, in return are never quoted!

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Running, Fashion, People

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• Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Writing, Creating, Doe

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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• From an art perspective, I dont know how you get better than Beetlejuice. In terms of originality and a look, its 100% unique.

  Michael Keaton

  Art, Unique, Perspective

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• The proponents of Steinitz' theory - Tarrasch and his supporters - tried to express Steinitz' teaching in the form of laconic rules, and as often happens in such cases, they went too far. The laconic tended to become dogmatic, and chess began to lose its freshness, originality and charm.

  Alexander Kotov

  Teaching, Chess, Charm

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• I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he'd taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if he'd taken a poll in Israel? Where would the Reformation have gone if Martin Luther had taken a poll?

  Harry S. Truman

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  "Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman".

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• By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.

  Edwin Bailey Elliott

  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

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• A designer…has the true responsibility to give his audiences not what they think they want, for this is almost invariably the usual, the accustomed, the obvious, and hence, the unspontaneous.  Rather, he should provide that quality of thought and intuition which rejects the ineffectual commonplace for effectual originality.

  Lester Beall

  Responsibility, Thinking, Giving

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• Creativity starts with a little touch of insanity and culminates with the highest trust on its beauty, but throughout it maintains the hands of originality,humanity and ALMIGHTY.

  Anuj

  Creativity, Hands, Insanity

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• Doing drugs is like anything else - predicated on taste, refinement, dignity, distinction, and originality. Cocaine is not cool, because it makes people act cartoonishly fiendish, and that is undignified.

  Hamilton Morris

  People, Drug, Dignity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.

  Bob Dylan

  Use, Original Thought, Right Now

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• Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.

  Michael Eisner

  Sometimes, Worn, Burnt Out

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• The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason.

  David Ogilvy

  Men, Majority, Original Thought

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• That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things that anyone could have thought of are very rare men.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Genius, Centre

  Terry Pratchett (2016). “The Last Hero”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Inspirational Life, Creativity, Self

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• Originality is not doing something no one else has ever done, but doing what has been done countless times with new life, new breath.

  Marie Chapian

  Smoking, New Life, Done

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• Creativity is the defeat of habit by imposing originality and change.

  Andy Law

  Creativity, Defeat, Habit

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• There is no such thing as group originality, group creativity or group perspicacity.

  Edwin Land

  Creativity, Individuality, Groups

  Edwin Herbert Land (1983). “Selected papers on industry”

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• Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.

  Edwin Land

  Individuality, Mind, Attributes

  Edwin Herbert Land (1983). “Selected papers on industry”

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• For all filmmakers: True originality is the key, only direct your own unique movie scripts, be a megalomaniac and not give a damn.

  Tom Six

  Unique, Keys, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Thinking, Guarantees, May

  Clifton Fadiman (1957). “Any Number Can Play”, Cleveland : World Publishing Company

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• Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do not.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Genius, Facts, Prophet

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.21, Routledge

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• It is altogether an extraordinary growing, swarming, glittering, pushing, chattering, good-natured, cosmopolitan place, and perhaps in some ways the best imitation of Paris that can be found (with a great originality of its own).

  Henry James

  New York, Paris, Growing

  Henry James, Leon Edel (1987). “Henry James, Selected Letters”, p.184, Harvard University Press

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