Originals Quotes - Page 11

• Man is even as steel, the essence of which is hidden: through admonition and explanation, good counsel and education, that essence will be brought to light. If, however, he be allowed to remain in his original condition, the corrosion of lusts and appetites will effectively destroy him.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Men, Light, Essence

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• What sometimes enrages me and always disappoints and grieves me is the preference of great schools of learning for the derivative as opposed to the original, for the conventional and thin which can be duplicated in many copies rather than the new and powerful, and for arid correctness and limitation of scope and method rather than for universal newness and beauty, wherever it may be seen.

  Norbert Wiener

  Powerful, School, Grieving

  Norbert Wiener (1954). “The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society”

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• The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one.

  Austin O'Malley

  Art, Character, Infusion

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• 'God' is the name given to the most 'important' human idea. In English, as in other languages, the original sense of the word is obscure. But the character of the name is the same in all languages: it is a question. 'God' is the question 'Is there something more important than, something besides, man?'

  Laura Riding

  Character, Men, Names

  "The Idea of God". "Essays from 'Epilogue' 1935-1937". Book by Laura Riding, Robert Graves, and Mark Jacobs, 2001.

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• The prerequisite of contrapuntal art, more conspicuous in the work of Bach than in that of any other composer, is an ability to conceive a priori of melodic identities which when transposed, inverted, made retrograde, or transformed rhythmically will yet exhibit, in conjunction with the original subject matter, some entirely new but completely harmonious profile.

  Glenn Gould

  Art, Identity, Matter

  "Song: 'So You Want To Write A Fugue'". 1997.

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• Most performers reinvent themselves. Madonna, Michael Jackson, P. Diddy. They reinvent themselves into different kinds of images. Elvis Presley was always himself, an original, and he never tried to be anything but that.

  Pat Boone

  Different, Kind, Performers

  "The Enduring Legacy of Elvis Presley". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. May 6, 2005.

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• What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Trying, Stories, Novel

  Source: collider.com

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• Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.

  John French Sloan

  Men, Imitation, Borrowed

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• I think everybody needs healing. My understanding of human beings is that we were created in the image of God but we are all fallen, and Jesus died for us so that we can be redeemed. Every Christian is in a process of healing in some way. God's original creation was good, and in some ways fallen away from that. And in every area of our life we need to be healed and restored and to become more Christ-like.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Christian, Jesus, Healing

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I think the purveyors of e-books are only too happy for this atmosphere of 'everything belongs to everybody' to increase because it means they don't have to think so much about the original maker of the thing, or they can get away with paying them less.

  Graham Swift

  Book, Mean, Thinking

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• All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the three original TV networks.

  Carl Bernstein

  New York, Years, Three

  "Carl Bernstein: Is Phone-Hacking Scandal Murdoch's Watergate?". www.newsweek.com. July 9, 2011.

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• You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed.

  Wumen Huikai

  Faces, Spirituality, Praise

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• I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative.

  Glen Hansard

  Editing, Ideas, Creative

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• Obviously everybody knows that I'm an original songwriter and I got my band. And the guys in Sugar Money, no matter what, are part of my family and they always got something to do with me, and I don't care if they just hang out with me.

  Bo Bice

  Guy, Band, Care

  "Rocking Runner-Up Bo Bice Wants To Show What He's Really About". Interview with Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. May 25, 2005.

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• Star Wars, the original movie, was all the various old genre of pictures: the swashbucklers, the war movies, all those things were put n there in a different look.

  Bruce Boxleitner

  Stars, War, Different

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• The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on tons of these variety shows, given to me by their great writers. I'd love to be doing all that again.

  Ruth Buzzi

  Comedy, Hysterical, Hours

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• I was a huge fan of the original Star Trek, and I'd never even dreamed that I would someday be captain of a starship...

  Scott Bakula

  Stars, Captains, Fans

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

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• I have lots of records, quite a collection, actually, that I stole from my mom. I have the original 'Thriller' album and I have a really great 'Elton John's Greatest Hits,' and I also have a N.E.R.D. album. Records sound more original. They have more edge.

  Elisha Cuthbert

  Mom, Sound, Albums

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• Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.

  Neko Case

  Country, Rocks, Punk

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• Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could be bad, very bad, and unfaithful to the original.

  Lydia Davis

  Ideas, People, Unfaithful

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• All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Inspiration, People, Creative

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• I prefer writing originals.

  Tony Gilroy

  Writing

  "Talking With Tony Gilroy". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. September 27, 2007.

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• I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with someone else's characters and stories.

  Alex Garland

  Character, Ideas, Different

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

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• It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

  Ira Glass

  Fun, Loud, Carver

  "Ira Glass: Live and Uncut". Interview with Ana Marie Cox And Joanna Dionis, www.motherjones.com. August 11, 1998.

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• I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

  Piers Anthony

  Elements, Want, Guilty

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