Originals Quotes - Page 12

• When hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world went to the Yukon to look for gold, the original prospectors had already claimed most of it.

  Howard Blum

  People, Gold, Looks

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• I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John Grisham's The Rainmaker. I felt that I didn't have the right to Francis Coppola's anything unless I had written the story and the screenplay.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Directors, Titles, Stories

  Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The poor Constitution itself is hardly paid any attention to. It's necessary to ignore it because most of what government does these days is clearly unconstitutional. The original idea, as expressed by James Madison, was that states would do 95 percent of the governing. Today, they are little more than administrative subdivisions of the central empire.

  Charley Reese

  Government, Ideas, Doe

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• I'll think of the idea and then I'll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which is the original thing which I thought was funny.

  David Cross

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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• The original 'Scream' is one of those classic things, but it totally pokes fun at itself too. It's never taking itself too seriously, which is why I think it's such a cult classic.

  Shenae Grimes

  Fun, Thinking, Classic

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• I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because they live in this bubble of immense wealth and privilege and no matter what's going on around them they have a singular purpose to maintain their rank and to impress others.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Book, Character, Zombie

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• All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Names, Effort, Doctrine

  "Christian Missions: A Triangular Debate, Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York". The Monist Magazine, Volume 5, 1895.

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• Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Opportunity, Directors, Actors

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• Hey, every once in awhile the secondary form works better than the original but it's certainly a rarity.

  Jaime Hernandez

  Hey, Form, Rarity

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• What I'm saying is individuals have better ideas if they're connected to rich, diverse networks of other individuals. If you put yourself in an environment with lots of different perspectives, you yourself are going to have better, sharper, more original ideas. It's not that the network is smart.

  Steven Johnson

  Smart, Ideas, Perspective

  "'Eureka moments' and other myths about tech innovation" by John D. Sutter, www.cnn.com. October 15, 2010.

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• I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.

  Bob Kane

  Art, New York, Men

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• If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.

  Bob Kane

  Writing, Guessing, Want

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• My favorite music to sing would be my own songs, my original songs, just because I know them, you know I write the tunes, so my favorite songs are the newest ones that I write. That's what I like to sing the most, because it means something, it's real, it comes from me.

  Paul McDonald

  Song, Real, Mean

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• I think people would actually be surprised by what we put out. Unfortunately the shadow that the original founders cast was that they were just artists that can't write books so people swept the whole of Image with that paintbrush.

  Todd McFarlane

  Book, Writing, Artist

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• Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.

  James Nachtwey

  Animal, Mass Destruction, People

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• I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.

  Jo Nesbo

  Writing, Evil, Ambitious

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• Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments. Often the latter is indispensable even for a proper appreciation of the behavior of the function for real arguments. It is therefore essential that the original determination of the function concept be broadened to a domain of magnitudes which includes both the real and the imaginary quantities, on an equal footing, under the single designation complex numbers.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Appreciation, Determination, Real

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• The original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and continue to live.

  Ashley Montagu

  People, Ancestry, Jew

  Ashley Montagu, (2013). “Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race”, p.223, Read Books Ltd

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• Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.

  Oren Peli

  Matter, Borrowing

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• The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what type of project this is? If it's all original music and it's got this much emotion around it and it connects this way with this many people, is it a mixtape? What's an 'album' these days, anyways?

  Chance the Rapper

  Rap, People, Doe

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• If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.

  Sam Raimi

  Hurt, Want, Remakes

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• When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.

  Satyajit Ray

  Writing, Hands, People

  Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.106, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• My own perception is that there are two tiers of countries, one, the original ASEAN, and then the new members. The new members are in various stages of development.

  S. R. Nathan

  Country, Two, Perception

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• The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.

  Ted Rall

  Country, Commitment, Years

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• With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.

  Ezra Stiles

  People, Property

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