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I can remember when anything further downtown New York than Canal Street was risky and the whole area still looked like a '70s cop movie… — Peter York
While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize. — John Landis Mason
With NOAH, you can create some stunning, yet original soundscapes. Therefore, as a performance tool, it really comes into its own because you can make… — Geoff Downes
The print on canvas is the closest to the original work. I personally sign them as well. — Dwayne Hickman
In sinners and repenters you have the original division of labor. — Robert Breault
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons or bones. It's… — Bodhidharma
The original state for all Beings is Love. Out troubles are due only to our covering over thus natural state. — Lester Levenson
No scientist or student of science, need ever read an original work of the past. As a general rule, he does not think of doing… — Carrie P Snow
This ability to incorporate the past gives the sharpest diagnostic tool, if one asks whether a body of knowledge is a science or not. Do… — Carrie P Snow
The aliens on this planet are also attempting to clone or replicate the human form artificially. Their original form, being humanoid, cannot pass the field… — Michael Tsarion
Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often… — Samuel Johnson
The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations-more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or artist presents in them two aspects… — Jacob Bronowski
Brothers and sisters, love the earth. Be true to the earth, and do not believe those seducers who look longingly to the world beyond, casting… — Eberhard Arnold
To Monsieur Eiffel the Engineer, the brave builder of so gigantic and original a specimen of modern Engineering from one who has the greatest respect… — Thomas A. Edison
To be fair to ourselves, in almost every original script, the timing is actually worked out down to the minute — Michael Loceff
Part of the fun of the movie is understanding exactly why we called it Prometheus. And also, it sounds really pretentious, like Inception, so we… — Damon Lindelof
Remakes are a difficult thing 'cause some people feel very protective of the original. — Carey Mulligan
My fans are like no other. Completely original people. — Yelawolf
The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original. — Horace
We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Enemies carry a report in form different from the original. — Plautus
A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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