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Copy is a direct conversation with the consumer. — Shirley Polykoff

A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well. — Ben Lovett

Beauty brings copies of itself into being. — Elaine Scarry

I challenge those who are in business and other professions to see that there are copies of the Book of Mormon in their reception rooms. — Ezra Taft Benson

Existence creates only originals; it does not believe in carbon copies. A — Osho

I'd like to be an original, to be myself and not a pale copy of anyone else. — Julie Andrews

It was a beautiful thought that all living things were imperfect copies of the eternal forms in the world of ideas. — Jostein Gaarder

He was protecting me with just the tips of his fingers, like five miniature copies of his heart touching my skin. — Megan Duke

You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers. — Mark Pincus

To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one. — J. E. H. MacDonald

You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate. — Damien Hirst

Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up. — Wally Wood

Seriously, when you see a new book fresh on the stand and in big letters it says "A Million Copies Sold," did you ever wonder who bought them? — Stanley Victor Paskavich

But how a game plan came to be, what a finished plan looked like, I had no idea. I'd heard that all copies were shredded as soon as the game was over. — Nicholas Dawidoff

They are all cheap copies and every one of them is forgotten. — James W. Bodden

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction. — Paul Gauguin

Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It's since sold millions of copies. — Jack Canfield

To copy copies is not normally safe, but it is safe to copy Paul, for he was fully surrendered, wholly sanctified, completely satisfied, — Leonard Ravenhill

Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Yes, but keep copies. — Samuel Goldwyn

I have copies of the books my grandfather illustrated for Scribner's in each house. I read those books all the time. — Jamie Wyeth

Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies. — Irving Berlin

Very few people have the nerve to grab their dreams. Most that you meet will be half-images or carbon copies of who they really want to be. — Sai Marie Johnson

What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films. — Om Puri

There have to be at least two copies of a photograph, otherwise it's not a photograph. — Thomas Ruff

Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects. — Vladimir Lenin

You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies. — Jo Walton

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them. — James Anthony Froude

My first book was a car crash. I tried to find all the copies and destroy them. — John Burnside

I can only listen to what I'm working on, at the time. I can't listen to anything else because I don't want to copy it. — Jimmy Page

According to my royalty statements, 'The Green Progression' sold 392 copies in hardcover. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: 'What's your sign?' Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated. — Dick Cavett

Stick with hard copies; they're harder to alter after publication. In the better world, there won't be any electronics at all. — Erika Johansen

I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said I'll just print another ten. — Eric Sykes

Copy, not from your industry, from others. You have to go where there is no competition. — Seth Godin

No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document. — Renata Adler

Without theory we can only copy. — W. Edwards Deming

Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The
Labs. — Dennis Ritchie

All the elements in an advertisement are primarily designed to do one thing and one thing only: get you to read the first sentence of the copy. — Joseph Sugarman

Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books. — Richard Allington

Did it really matter how many copies of Windows we sold in Taiwan this month when millions of children were without access to books? — John Wood

If I had time and a hammer, I'd track down every bootleg copy and smash it. — George Lucas

The only time I made money was when I licensed my own solo guitar record, which sold maybe seven copies. — Sasha Frere-Jones

We print 37 million copies, and we found out about the unfortunate news as we were putting the issue to bed. — Olivia Newton-John

It's a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies, you are really getting some place. — Ruth Stout

Genes aren't designed to make us happy. They design us to make
more copies of themselves. — Joe Quirk

I don't want to be like Shakespeare; I want to be like Saurabh Sharma, and I don't want other people to become my xerox copies. Be Thyself! — Saurabh Sharma

Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies. — Irving Berlin

Selling MP3s or physical copies, it's still cool, but I think it's slowly becoming outdated to where people just want to build a culture. — Diplo

Everything in art is but a copy of nature. — Seneca The Younger

Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies. — Dario Argento

We are obsessed with sex, because those organisms who have this obsession leave behind many more copies of organisms with this obsession. — Hugh Howey

Be the best version of yourself rather than a bad copy of someone else! — Conchita Wurst

Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth. — Samuel Johnson

Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. — Ken Wilber

I was like a wonder kid at Uptown. The first record I produced sold two million copies - and I'd only produced it because the producer didn't show up. — Sean Combs

You must look at the processes of motion in the macrocosmos and microcosmos accurately, and copy them! — Viktor Schauberger

Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies. — Abraham Lincoln

I guess you don't want to leave copies of Genocide Illustrated out for the UPS guy to see.) — Tad Williams

Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks. — Peg Bracken

I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author. — Robert Benchley

You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch. — Hermann Broch

I thought we'd seen the worst when we bought two hundred copies of the Invisible Book of Invisibility - cost a fortune, and we never found them. . . — J.K. Rowling

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea. — Colin Angle

And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species - to an intelligent robot that can make evolved copies of itself. — Bill Joy

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away. — Clarence Darrow

I have a great book. It's called Stantasyland. Except I don't have the money to buy a million copies to put it on the bestsellers list. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

It doesn't matter how many copies of my book I sell. The important thing is that the person reading it likes it. — Jennifer Raygoza

I consider the law prohibiting the sharing of copies with your friend the moral equivalent of Jim Crow. It does not deserve respect. — Richard M. Stallman

If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job. — Padgett Powell

There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies? — Jodie Foster

If you buy a DVD you have a copy. If you want a backup copy you buy another one. — Jack Valenti

Never copy yourself, always copy someone else. — Pablo Picasso

Drama copies life in there being a sense of waiting, of a promise never fulfilled. — Chloe Thurlow

The currency of evolution is neither hunger nor pain, but rather copies of DNA helixes — Yuval Noah Harari

Morgan was sent copies and decided to sue both publishers for libel. — David Cordingly

I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around. — Zadie Smith

Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It interests me tremendously to make copies ... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things. — Vincent Van Gogh

It's nice to have a game that sells a million copies. — John Carmack

I've met a lot of artists who wanted to paint me. LeRoy Neiman was one. He did it from a photograph. He made 20,000 copies, and we sold them all. — Shaquille O'Neal

You can't copy style, you gotta create your own. — Tatyana Ali

One essential ingredient for being an original in the day of copies is courageous vision. — Charles R. Swindoll

You need not to burn copies of a book. Just make people feel indifferent to the book. — Lara Biyuts

In a bureaucracy, they shoot the bull, pass the buck, and make seven copies of everything. — Charles E. McKenzie

Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author. — James Jeffrey Roche

History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals. — Alexis De Tocqueville

The Wardens put on their own epic production of Fahrenheit 452," Bob said. "They spent about twenty years finding and destroying copies. — Jim Butcher

No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses. — Wislawa Szymborska

One hundred copies? Of these poems you do not even like?" asked the Roman. "They're nasty bits about famous people; everyone will want them. — Karen Essex

where fewer than five percent of books sell over 1,000 copies. — Helen Sedwick

Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Be yourself, because an original is better than a copy. — Greyson Chance

Unless your answers are clearly better, copy the answers of your betters. — Warren Buffett

Our first record, 'Huey Lewis And The News', was seen by no one - it sold 25 copies. — Huey Lewis

The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band — Brian Eno

eBooks are just digital copies of analog books. Convenient, yes. But we have the technology now to rethink what a book is. — David Conger

I remember my mom had a big collection of copies of Saturday Evening Post magazines, and that was really my introduction to those great illustrators. — Thomas Kincade

Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine. — Douglas Coupland