Stealing Quotes - Page 2

• If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

  Wilson Mizner

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

  Quoted in Bennett Cerf, Try and Stop Me: A Collection of Anecdotes and Stories, Mostly Humorous (1944). Although this is usually credited to Mizner, the Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 1941, quotes Bob Oliver: "If you steal from one man, it's plagiarism. If you steal from several, it's research."

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• If the shoe fits, steal it.

  Lou Krieger

  Shoes, Fit, Ifs

  Lou Krieger (2006). “Poker Player's Bible”, p.146, Struik

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• My favorite thing to steal is a kiss. You can get arrested for it but they can't force you to give it back.

  Daniel Tosh

  Kissing, Giving, Favorites Things

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• In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

  Anatole France

  Peace, Anger, Sleep

  "The Red Lily". Book by Anatole France, 1894.

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• Stealing is OK as long as it's done well.

  Richard Garriott

  Long, Done, Wells

  "Ultima VIII: Pagan" videogame quote section, 1994.

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• Some go to prison for stealing, and others for believing that a better system can be provided and maintained than one that makes it necessary for a man to steal in order to live.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Believe, Men, Order

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• Politicians don't lie, they misspeak. And they don't steal, they mispocket.

  Robert Breault

  Lying, Politics, Politician

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• It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.

  Anton Chekhov

  Immoral

  "The Beggar". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1887.

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• Why are people so interested in other people's relationships? It's like stealing.

  Marlee Matlin

  People

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• The only people who steal are thieves, and that’s a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will… return the benefit and reciprocate...

  Michael Nesmith

  Civilization, People, Thieves

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• A good man will never harm or oppress another. A good man will share his last morsel of food with others in need, and die of hunger when he no longer has any food -- instead of cheat or steal from others to survive. Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.

  Suzy Kassem

  Humility, Men, Honorable Man

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• Government has coddled, accepted, and ignored white collar crime for too long. It is time the nation woke up and realized that it's not the armed robbers or drug dealers who cause the most economic harm, it's the white collar criminals living in the most expensive homes who have the most impressive resumes who harm us the most. They steal our pensions, bankrupt our companies, and destroy thousands of jobs, ruining countless lives.

  Harry Markopolos

  Jobs, Home, Government

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• No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  People, Office, President

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.81, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

  T. S. Eliot

  Stealing Things, Immature, Different

  1920 The Sacred Wood,'Philip Massinger'.

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• If you plagiarize others' techniques, you steal their emotions and tell your spectators a lie with your work. Works as such equal zero.

  Wu Guanzhong

  Zero, Lying, Technique

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• Stealing things is everybody's problem. We [Apple Inc.] own a lot of intellectual property, and we don't like when people steal it. So people are stealing stuff and we're optimists. We believe that 80 percent of the people stealing stuff don't want to be; there's just no legal alternative.

  Steve Jobs

  Believe, Apples, Stealing Things

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Steal a loaf of bread and they hang you, steal a land and they'll make you king.

  David Gemmell

  Kings, Land, Bread

  "Stormrider". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 5, 2002.

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• I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

  Mother Jones

  Men, Shoes, Economic Inequality

  "Autobiography of Mother Jones" by Mary Harris Jones, edited by Mary Field Parton, (p. 46), 2004.

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• One should steal only where one cannot rob.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Should

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.175, Penguin

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• To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Giving

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• Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Soul, Film Music, Bodies Of Water

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

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• Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.

  Tom Waits

  Dream, Rainbow

  Song: Diamonds and Gold, Album: Rain Dogs

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• Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

  Howard Aiken

  Life And Love, Business, Congratulations

  "A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus" by Eric A. Weiss, (p. 404), 1988.

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• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Inspiring, Art, Architecture

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

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• About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

  Josh Billings

  Art, Originality, Honest

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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