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It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. The only chance of any healthy life for it is to be as full a beech-tree as it can be.
— Phillips Brooks
It is the West's provincialism, which leads it to perceive the rest of the continent as a failed copy of itself
— Andrzej Stasiuk
I really don't want to copy something to a great degree, but I love taking tiny ideas and putting them together.
— Joe Goddard
My goal is never to copy. Create a new style, clear luminous colors and feel the elegance of the models.
— Tamara De Lempicka
To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.
— J. E. H. MacDonald
Successes are always unique and hard to copy. The fact that easyJet became a success is due to a mixture of talent and luck.
— Stelios Haji-Ioannou
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
— Louis Kronenberger
Advice I would give to anyone trying to find their own personal style: don't copy anybody, just be yourself, and make your own trends.
— Bethany Cosentino
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
— Pablo Picasso
I like to hold a book. When someone sends me a script, I ask for a hard copy or print one out.
— Mario Cantone
Lady, you are the cruel'st she aliveIf you will lead these graces to the grave
And leave the world no copy. — William Shakespeare
Multiplication is the will of God, but not necessarily duplication. God has made you an original masterpiece, so don't seek to be a carbon copy.
— Hope D. Blackwell
I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.
— Joel Osteen
A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it.
— Laurence J. Peter
To copy faults is want of sense.
— Charles Churchill
You watch movies and see bands you like and copy them and see what you can hold. I mean, it's all down to how you hold what you wear.
— Albert Hammond Jr.
It is better to invert reality than to copy it.
— Giuseppe Verdi
I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.
— Mary Karr
Impact in advertising today is 80 percent strategy, 20 percent copy. This makes it nearly impossible for good copy to compensate for weak strategy.
— Roy H. Williams
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
— Pablo Picasso
The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.
— Daniel J. Bernstein
When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.
— Diane Lane
You hurt her and I'll skin you alive and feed your carcass to the wild boars in the swamps. You copy?
— Faith Hunter
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— Ludwig Feuerbach
It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.
— Edith Wharton
To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.
— Giuseppe Verdi
The best way to be original is to not copy anyone.
— Sebastyne Young
Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past.
— Peter Thiel
You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.
— Marian Wright Edelman
something happened to you, think how helpful it would be for your loved ones left behind to have a copy of the key
— Mark Gavagan
If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them.
— Cennino Cennini
I do want to have children, but my parents had me when they were in their forties. I'd like to copy that.
— Kit Harington
First, you have to figure out who to copy. Second, you have to figure out what to copy.
— Austin Kleon
To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.
— Idries Shah
I just don't want to copy the current trends or do movies for teenagers. I want people to get more out of movies.
— Clint Eastwood
They say if somebody has done something you want to do, all you need to do is go out and copy them.
— Chael Sonnen
For the writer, the process of writing a novel is like getting an advanced copy of a book you'd really like to read.
— Brett Armstrong
If someone is copying what you do, Congratulate yourself for inspiring that someone to follow your footsteps.
— Mohith Agadi
I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.
— John Mortimer
I tried to copy my parents, as monkeys do, but they were trying to copy me, looking to the child for the energy and hope they had long since lost.
— Jeanette Winterson
I can assure you that next to my bed, there is always a copy of the Dharmapada which I read from every night.
— Frederick Lenz
Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.
— David Ogilvy
People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.
— Natalie Cole
The love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.
— Louisa May Alcott
I think any time people behave in a way that's truly them, then they'll never fail. You get in trouble when you try to copy others.
— Gabrielle Reece
When a writer tries to copy another writer, it's doomed to fail.
— Sophie Hannah
If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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
I hate to say it, but she's trying to copy Miley [Cyrus] and Miley's trying to copy her. The era of Madonna is over.
— Andrea Tantaros
I'm starting to see players copy what I do. I'm flattered.
— Dennis Rodman
So the librarians at UCLA worked very hard to find another copy of Villacorta's rendition of the Dresden Codex, and lent it to me.
— Richard Feynman
Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul and purity. A wonderful young voice.
— Sarah Vaughan
There is only one you. Stop trying to devalue yourself by trying to be a copy of someone else.
— Susie Clevenger
My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.
— Robert Plant
It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.
— Henry Rollins
I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.
— Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
The difference between a good artist and a bad one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal, the good one really does.
— William Blake
Roger, Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You've got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.
— Charles Duke
It is suicidal for other runners to copy my hill sessions without adequate background.
— Pekka Vasala
Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy.
— Vladimir Nabokov
I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad copy.
— David Russell
Trying to change others is a smokescreen, start by changing yourself then others will copy from you.
— Auliq Ice
A photographer doesn't just copy reality, but communicates to others what he or she experiences.
— Walter Rosenblum
He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.
— Samuel Johnson
There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.
— Francis Arinze
Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.
— Ellsworth Kelly
Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes.
— Henry David Thoreau
'The Sound of Music' did more damage to the industry than any other picture. Everyone tried to copy it. We were the biggest offenders.
— Richard D. Zanuck
When people come up to me and say, 'I read your book,' I'm thinking, 'How dare you! Who gave you a copy?'
— Steve Toltz
I'd go to a bookstore, and I'd flip through flap copy, and I'd think, 'If this gal can get published, I can get published.'
— MaryJanice Davidson
My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
— Manuel Puig
