Copy Quotes
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
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You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.
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I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
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We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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I've planned book tours for myself, whether or not anybody wants to hear what I have to say. I've weighed in on things like what the cover looks like, what the copy looks like, how it's going to be promoted - just every aspect of it.
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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
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Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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Every stylish man should have a copy of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.
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In the U.S., our work with law enforcement focuses on criminal computer networks. With legitimate businesses that copy software illegally, we generally follow through with a civil suit.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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One pretends to do something, or copy someone or some teacher, until it can be done confidently and easily in what becomes one's own style.
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I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.
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Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.
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Federer said something interesting once. He said that he was watching Rod Laver, and me, and he said he was trying to copy us and to be like us. And that’s a great compliment for us.
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I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.
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Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor.
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It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.
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The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.
