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As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel. — Sigmar Polke
I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand. — Joanna Southcott
Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe. — Minoru Yamasaki
I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office! — Matthew Lesko
I kept listening, kept going to see people, kept sitting in with people, kept listening to records. If I wanted to learn somebody's stuff, like… — Stevie Ray Vaughan
[Herschel and Humboldt] stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science. No… — Charles Darwin
I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand. — Alberto Giacometti
I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.' Six months… — Larry Ellison
In the old days, we painstakingly copied our emails onto paper, put a stamp on them and mailed them to arrive 4 to 5 days… — Peter Sagal
How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers? — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. — Stephen Gardiner
Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit by bit with the right equipment. — Jon Lech Johansen
The model is not to be copied, but to be realized. — Robert Henri
. . .nature indifferently copied is far superior to the best idealities. — John James Audubon
I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that Ive every said, and I used… — Will Rogers
You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the… — C.S. Lewis
There is an inimitable grace in Virgil's words, and in them principally consists that beauty which gives so inexpressible a pleasure to him who best… — John Dryden
It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university… — Kevin Mitnick
In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly. — Nathan Myhrvold
It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why… — Tom Petty
Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves:… — Jerry Saltz
The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was… — Richard Stallman
Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest in… — James Surowiecki
A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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