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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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• 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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• All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that all originality and authorship is lost. That's why you're seeing superstars like Brad Pitt in THE FIGHT CLUB and Tom Cruise in MAGNOLIA. They're desperately searching for people writing and directing off-formula movies.

  Paul Schrader

  Teacher, Book, Writing

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• If you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox way, people will think that you only want attention and that you look down upon them.They will find away to punish you for making them feel inferior. It is far safer to blend in and nurture the common touch. Share your originality only with tolerant friends and those who are sure to appreciate your uniqueness.

  Robert Greene

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "The 48 Laws Of Power". Book by Robert Greene, 2010.

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• The question for the ultimate foundations and the ultimate meaning of mathematics remains open; we do not know in which direction it will find its final solution nor even whether a final objective answer can be expected at all. "Mathematizing" may well be a creative activity of man, like language or music, of primary originality, whose historical decisions defy complete objective rationalization.

  Hermann Weyl

  Men, Discovery, Decision

  Hermann Weyl (2013). “Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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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• I believe the structure of 'House of Leaves' is far more difficult to explain than it is to read. And while I'd like to lay claim to some extraordinary act of originality, truth is I'm only taking advantage of capabilities inherent in everyone.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Believe, House, Truth Is

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• An invitation to innovation, Radiant Orchid encourages expanded creativity and originality, which is increasingly valued in today's society.

  Leatrice Eiseman

  Creativity, Orchids, Innovation

  "Pantone's Radiant Orchid is 2014's Color of the Year" by Eun Kyung Kim, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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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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• The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, Clever, Believe

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• Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them.

  John Dewey

  Mediocrity, Uniforms, Deviation

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.176, Sheba Blake Publishing

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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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• 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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• The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lying, Ideas, Mark

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• Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can only discover from within.

  Thomas Merton

  Names, Numbers, Giving

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

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• When I was coming up, we weren't trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our thing. The only thing we were really trying to do was to be recognized for our originality.

  Bootsy Collins

  Trying, Paid

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• The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Writing, Mean, Desire

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• We should imitate the great classics. We would miss, and that miss would be our originality.

  Raymond Radiguet

  Writing, Missing, Would Be

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• Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.

  Criss Jami

  Cosmos, Genius, World

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.98, Criss Jami

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• Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.

  Nick Moran

  Next, Film

  "Home entertainment" by Nick Moran, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2001.

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• In this world, one thing you should definitely strive for is originality. Just be who you are, and be your own person. That's what will make you stand out.

  Nolan Gould

  Be Who You Are, World, Strive

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• Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law -- for knowledge of self and of the world is the law that, even though unattainable, cannot be broken, and no one can excuse himself by saying that he doesn't know it. . . . The renewed originality of the sin is this: I have to carry out my unknowing, I shall be sinning originally against life.

  Clarice Lispector

  Ignorance, Self, Law

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• Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He is our peculiar, urban, twentieth-century Thoreau, the quintessential American mind of our time.

  Hayden Carruth

  Thinking, Giving, Mind

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