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It is impossible to be a maverick or a true original if you're too well behaved and don't want to break the rules. You have… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
Every actor's greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case,… — Bela Lugosi
Wanting things to be otherwise is the very essence of suffering. We almost never directly experience what pain is because our reaction to it is… — Stephen Levine
Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original — Charles Spurgeon
Arthuriana has become a genre in itself, more like TV soap opera where people think they know the characters. All that's fair enough, but it… — Michael Moorcock
Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of… — George Gershwin
Don't be a blueprint. Be an original. — Roy Acuff
Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray. — Philip Sidney
Imitations only better the original. — Sammy Davis, Jr.
Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain… — Stephen Spender
Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process. — Elwyn Brooks White
Where I come from, you had to be original. You had to come up with your own little moves. It doesn't matter if it's a… — Roxrite
When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear… — Abbas Kiarostami
Seeds and nuts are indispensable for cardiovascular health. The protective properties of nuts against coronary heart disease were first recognized in the early 1990s, and… — Joel Fuhrman
Atticus Lish is a true original and this is a tremendous book, relentless, moving, written in prose of marvelous integrity. Now that America and the… — Sam Lipsyte
The original intent of laws was to get the masses of people to accept the limitations superimposed upon them as being the result of their… — Jacque Fresco
Peter Hyland's poems are both elegantly wrought and meditatively wild. They testify to an original, restless intelligence. He can cast his imagination into a woman's… — Tony Hoagland
I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everyone there looks an original. — George Bernard Shaw
The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin. — R C Sproul
The best way to be original is to be yourself. — Paulo Coelho
One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings — Diogenes
Restoration is a skilled profession. You might even call it an art in its own right, except that it is frowned on to be original.… — J M Coetzee
Success is creating something original and lasting-whether it is a company, a work of art, an idea or analysis that influence others, or a happy… — Linda Chavez
The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a… — Laozi
Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock. — Chanakya

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