Derivative Quotes
52 quotes by 50 authors
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There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.
— Julia Child
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God has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty – of want or lack; it is caused by a…
— C.S. Lewis
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There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of…
— William Gibson
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I am a Prince," he replied, being rather dense. "It is the function of a Prince—value A—to kill monsters—value B—for the purpose of establishing order—value…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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No one is original. Everyone is derivative.
— Sonny Rollins
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Hedge funds try to produce above-average investment returns using tactics ranging from traditional stock-picking to complex derivative and arbitrage plays. High minimum investments, redemption restrictions…
— Alex Berenson
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Online is a revolution. The Internet is a revolution. And we should be revolutionary in the content that we put on it rather than derivative.
— Shane Smith
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At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather derivative…
— Dennis Ritchie
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I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative.
— Bennett Miller
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Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.
— Dan Harmon
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Please forgive me, Mother. I apologize for saying 'fuck.' Then he straightened and addressed Doug. Which, by the way, was repeated sixty-seven times in this…
— SangFroid Stalker
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His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, everyone) believe that he was immune from snobbishness
— Marcel Proust
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