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1861 Original quotes by 1452 unique authors

Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful new drugs. Now… — Marcia Angell
I want to see the original long-form certificate of Donald Trump's Republican registration. — Rand Paul
Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations. — Frank Darabont
What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original. — Austin Kleon
If we’re free from the burden of trying to be completely original, we can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and we can… — Austin Kleon
A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more forceful for its… — Donna Jo Napoli
Waiting for the Electricity is a wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural clashes with satirical hilarity. I haven't read a first… — Jill Ciment
Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different. — John Hockenberry
Accidents often produce the best solutions… only you can recognize the difference between an accident and your original intent. — Jennifer Morla
Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around… — Abigail Washburn
I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and… — George Washington
What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men… — Leonard Cohen
The best work comes from people who are motivated by crisis. When something stops their original idea, they respond by coming up with something even… — Pharrell Williams
Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should… — Henri Matisse
The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size — Albert Einstein
To be shockingly original with your first novel, you don’t have to discover a new technique: Simply write about people as they are and not… — John Braine
David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation. — Unknown Author
Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female. — Barbara Tuchman
I've always been serious that way, trying to evolve to a more conscious state. Funny thing about that,though. You tweak yourself,looking for more love, less… — Bill Withers
There are moments of clarity daily. They open me up with a breath and keep me calm. They feed me the answers. And they hold… — Buddy Wakefield
I think we're returning to more of the original vibration of music and creativity through the removal of this distortion called the music industry. That's… — Jane Siberry
Be yourself, because an original is better than a copy. — Greyson Chance
True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being… — Salmon P. Chase
Our goal has been to stay true to what people most love about the original Pirates! while upgrading, enhancing, and in some cases, re-inventing the… — Sid Meier
Suppose Mozart had tried to be original? It would have been like a man at the North Pole trying to walk north, and this is… — Keith Johnstone

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