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I have not come up with anything original. It needs a better brain than mine! I have done what I can do in taking Dawkins'… — Susan Blackmore
At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your art in its… — Jean-Georges Noverre
As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from… — Abraham Lincoln
I've always been obsessed with drums. They fascinate me. Any other instrument - nothing. I play acoustic guitar a bit. But it's always been drums… — John Bonham
I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do with form. I… — Stanley Kubrick
The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material. Because that's going… — Stanley Kubrick
I do not allow fan-fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan-fiction with my characters. I advise my readers… — Anne Rice
For the elements have the property of moving back to their place in a straight line, but they have no properties which would cause them… — Maimonides
This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not able to convince you that… — Isaac Newton
Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further… — Galileo Galilei
Geoffrey Hill may be the strongest and most original English poet of the second half of our fading century, although his work is by no… — John Hollander
Sometimes during solitude I hear truth spoken with clarity and freshness; uncolored and untranslated it speaks from within myself in a language original but inarticulate,… — Hugh B. Brown
If the original Facebook was the first five minutes [of a conversation] and the stream was the next 15, what I want to show you… — Mark Zuckerberg
I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos. — Brian Setzer
I don't think there is a musician today that hasn't been affected by Elvis' music. His definitive years - 1954-57 - can only be described… — Brian Setzer
The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion. — Alan Turing
I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used… — Rob Zombie
And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel's Bolero, probably whoever played percussion on that, will never have It played better than that. — Buddy Rich
I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was… — Don Bluth
As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up. — Tom Petri
I had to de-program myself. From myself. Had to reinvent rituals of purification. So full of the vagrant pollutions of others. It was time to… — Lydia Lunch
Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings. — Pierre Bonnard
The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none. — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways… — Edward Thorndike
It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A… — David Brin

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