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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without… — C.S. Lewis
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. — Abraham Lincoln
We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning… — Eric Liu
As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original… — Harold MacMillan
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. — David Mamet
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to… — Thomas Mann
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or… — Orison Swett Marden
The cable makers are the ones who are willing to take risks and do something original and push the envelope some. — George R. R. Martin
I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air. — Steve Martin
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth… — Karl Marx
The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at… — Karl Marx
You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or… — Henri Matisse
No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity. — Andre Maurois
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. — Rollo May
I love going to art galleries. The Tate Modern is one of my favourite things to do. But I don't invest in the history of… — James McAvoy
The world is starving for original and decisive leadership. — Bryant H. McGill
Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album. — John Mellencamp
If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike. — Bernard Meltzer
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. — H. L. Mencken
When the whole point of Queen was to be original. — Freddie Mercury
The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within… — Alice Miller
I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good. — Unknown Author
I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps… — Alan Moore
I've been doing a lot of different cross-training and kickboxing and Capoeira and kite surfing, and I've just really been back to what I consider… — Alanis Morissette
Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written -… — Viggo Mortensen

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