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Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine. — Douglas Coupland
In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and… — Jerry Brown
Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your… — Roy Lichtenstein
Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new… — Northrop Frye
I've always felt that really good prequels should be original movies. — Damon Lindelof
Coming up with something new and original is so exciting. — Adam Lambert
I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to… — Margaret Mahy
It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly… — Margaret Mahy
My favorite music to sing would be my own songs, my original songs, just because I know them, you know I write the tunes, so… — Paul McDonald
I think people would actually be surprised by what we put out. Unfortunately the shadow that the original founders cast was that they were just… — Todd McFarlane
When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one. — Christopher Nolan
Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable. — James Nachtwey
I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to… — Jo Nesbo
It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this… — Gerald Caiafa
The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential… — Gerald Caiafa
Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments. Often the latter… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
...the original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and continue to live... — Ashley Montagu
Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this… — Hilaire Belloc
Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies. — Oren Peli
The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what type of project… — Chance the Rapper
My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has been unjustifiably neglected.… — Leland Ryken
The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility. — Alfred Rosenberg
Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit. — Mike Rutherford
If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original. — Sam Raimi
When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth… — Satyajit Ray

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