Originals Quotes - Page 33

• A photocopier is a camera in its own right. I was fortunate to grow up in the time and culture that I did. I was allowed to develop an awareness that the art that really moves me is actually based on an original image.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Art, Growing Up, Moving

  Interview with Bob Nickas, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2011.

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• Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fear, Pride, Vanity

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.168, Cambridge University Press

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• What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Names, People, Way

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• Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is, we lose track of the Original Mind and are tormented all the time by the threatening objective world, regarding it as good or bad, true or false, agreeable or disagreeable. We are thus slaves of things and circumstances.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Running, Time, Past

  D.T. Suzuki (2014). “Manual of Zen Buddhism”, p.68, Lulu Press, Inc

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• One of the two is almost always a prevailing tendency of every author: either not to say some things which certainly should be said, or to say many things which did not need to be said. The first is the original sin of synthetic natures, the latter of analytical natures.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Two, Needs, Firsts

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• It is individuality which is the original and eternal within man; personality doesn't matter so much. To pursue the education and development of this individuality as one's highest vocation would be a divine egoism.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Men, Personality, Individuality

  "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms" by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Pennsylvania University Press, 1968.

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• True originality has its foundations in the soul, not in the mind, and when there is an effort to create something different it is usually a failure. Beethoven or Schumann or Chopin did not try to be original. They were original.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Effort, Soul, Mind

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• Everyday we just copy&paste ourselves from the previous day instead of creating a new blank page and be something different and original.

  Marcelo Goianira

  Creating, Everyday, Different

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• The competition for the future of crime fiction is fierce, as it should be, but don't take your eyes off Craig McDonald. He's wily, talented and-rarest of the rare-a true original. He writes melancholy poetry that actually has melancholy poets wandering around, but don't turn your backs on them, either. I am always eager to see what he's going to do next.

  Laura Lippman

  Eye, Writing, Mcdonalds

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• The chemical compounds are comparable to a system of planets in that the atoms are held together by chemical affinity. They may be more or less numerous, simple or complex in composition, and in the constitution of the materials, they play the same role as Mars and Venus do in our planetary system, or the compound members such as our earth with its moon, or Jupiter with its satellites... If in such a system a particle is replaced by one of different character, the equilibrium can persist, and then the new compound will exhibit properties similar to those shown by the original substance.

  Jean-Baptiste Dumas

  Character, Moon, Simple

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• Phil Cousineau has created a fine companion book to accompany the important film he and Gary Rhine have made in defense of the religious traditions of Native Americans. [Native Americans] are recognized the world over as keepers of a vital piece of the Creator's original orders, and yet they are regarded as little more than squatters at home. This book features impressive interviews, beautiful illustrations, and gives a voice to the voiceless.

  Peter Coyote

  Beautiful, Religious, Book

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• In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs almost invariably in individuals within our society is nevertheless due not to original nature but to social environment; and a homogeneous and simple development of the individual may be studied.

  Margaret Mead

  Simple, May, Our Society

  Margaret Mead (1962). “Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education”

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• There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten.

  Winston Churchill

  Common Sense, Imagination, Enemy

  Winston Churchill (2005). “The World Crisis, 1911-1918”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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• The Ultimate Day really begins the night before, when you sit up until one o'clock trying to get things into trunk and bags. This is when you discover the well-known fact that summer air swells articles to twice or three times their original size.

  Robert Benchley

  Summer, Night, Air

  Robert Benchley (2010). “The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News”, p.43, Glendower Media

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• When you surrender and release the illusion of control, you begin to free-fall toward your destiny of a grand reunion with your original-self; a self uncorrupted by the world's false lessons of fear and control.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Fall, Destiny, Self

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• Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.

  Edith Head

  Years, Ideas, Costumes

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• In accord with his original intent, the heavenly Father has in fact prepared an individualized kingdom for every person, from the outset of creation.

  Dallas Willard

  Father, Kingdoms, Facts

  Dallas Willard (2009). “The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God”, p.49, Harper Collins

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• If one takes full account of the persecution of heretics, the frequency and savagery of the religious wars which Christianity had endangered, the harm caused, especially to children, by the pernicious doctrine of original sin, a case could be made for saying that the world would have been better off without Christianity.

  A.J. Ayer

  Religious, Children, War

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• Strategy is a system of makeshifts. Is is more than a science. It is bringing knowledge to bear on practical life, the further elaboration of an original guiding idea under constantly changing circumstances. It is the art of acting under the pressure of the most demanding conditions...That is why general principles, rules derived from them, and systems based on these rules cannot possibly have any value for strategy.

  Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

  Life, Art, Science

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• In its heyday, the car was an expression of technical flair and design genius: the original Mini, the Beetle, the 2CV, and the Fiat 500 were all, in their various ways, inspired incarnations of functionality.

  Martin Jacques

  Expression, Car, Design

  "Auto-political" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2008.

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• I think Ace is a great guitarist, and with the four original members of KISS, there's a magic and chemistry that you just can't touch.

  Vinnie Vincent

  Kissing, Thinking, Magic

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• I'm buying records a lot, like, every week I'm just buying old reissues or old originals or new records that I have heard about.

  Tim Gane

  Records, Buying, Week

  "Stereolab" by Tim Gane, pitchfork.com. September 3, 2008.

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• My favorite record shop was called Recommended Records, in South London near where I lived - they did all the original Faust reissues that came out in 1979, and they also did a lot of Sun Ra stuff. They were a great record shop.

  Tim Gane

  Records, London, Stuff

  "Stereolab" by Tim Gane, pitchfork.com. September 3, 2008.

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• I like the idea of seeing a film that has the artist's hand in there,a film where you can see his strokes, you can see his working patterns. It's like going to a museum and seeing a Renoir drawing. You want to see their work and you want to see how they put it together. For me to see that in animation is really fresh, it's really exciting, it's really original.

  Bill Plympton

  Artist, Drawing, Museums

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We all grew up in that era. I'm a little younger than these guys [Will Forte and John Solomon], but I would say all of us are huge fans of the original "MacGyver" series, and obviously we found that inspiration for the original pitch for MacGruber. We took his name and made it stupid. In terms of the inspiration for the movie, that really came from our love for late '80s/early '90s action movies - the whole "Lethal Weapon" series and "Rambo" and "Die Hard," every single [Arnold] Schwarzenegger and [Sylvester] Stallone film.

  Will Forte

  Stupid, Inspiration, Names

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