Copies Quotes · Page 23

A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.

— Edgar Degas

I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said 'I'll just…

— Eric Sykes

Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making…

— Ernest Hemingway

I got a washed out version of Mom’s curls and a better copy of Dad’s blue eyes, The rest of me, I…

— Lilith Saintcrow

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy…

— Steve Jobs

We lose money on signing up the customers where there's some marketing costs associated with giving them a free month. It doesn't…

— Steve Case

“When God opens a new page in your life, make photocopies of it, read it and share it with other people. Some…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I really don't want to copy something to a great degree, but I love taking tiny ideas and putting them together.

— Joe Goddard

I played some shows, but I'm disappointed it didn't do better. I wish all my shows sold out, I wish I had…

— Eleanor Friedberger

“You were born an original work of art. Stay original.”

— Suzy Kassem

I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most…

— Alice Walker

Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you're doomed to do poorly.

— George Soros

I got like a list of things at the beginning. There were ten things that Bryan made for each one of us,…

— Johnny Simmons

For six months I couldn't sleep. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of…

— Chuck Palahniuk

People can copy what you've done, but they can't copy what you still want to do.

— Dennis Crowley

I sometimes think 'Gordon' must be the most bootlegged album in U.S history, since it sold only 200,000 copies in the country,…

— Steven Page

When something works for you or another brand, ask yourself, 'Why?' Then don't copy it but think about what you can do…

— Simon Mainwaring

I think it'd be a real nightmare to put a record out and sell 20 million copies and then that's it.

— Lenny Kravitz

You want to look at what other companies are doing. It's very important not to be hermetically sealed. But you don't want…

— Jeff Bezos

I take pens and I write on the inside of my arm. When I'm with people and somebody says a really fascinating…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their…

— Michael Hutchence

All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and…

— Jean Renoir

As for developing a writing style'I would say that I tried to copy the pacing of the old movies I loved as…

— Kola Boof

I was spurred by the fact that having worked for women's magazines myself as a journalist, if you go off and interview…

— Caitlin Moran

If you copy then it is not self-expression.

— Michael Schenker