Originals Quotes
39 Originals quotes by 30 unique authors
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The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
— John James Audubon
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My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals.
— Sebastian Bach
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among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of their originals ...…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice, and spiders are…
— Tertullian
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The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
— Warren Zevon
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We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals
— Tommy Shaw
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So it just goes to show you that it was always the Hells Angels first. They were the originals and all other clubs try and…
— Chuck Zito
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I was...attacked for being a pasticheur, chided for composing "simple" music, blamed for deserting "modernism," accused of renouncing my "true Russian heritage." People who had…
— Igor Stravinsky
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I was a Harry Potter nerd. Pencils were wands. I was going to Hogwarts. The whole thing. You don't understand what a nerd I am.…
— Jennifer Lawrence
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My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the…
— Patricia Briggs
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Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers, when…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had a right to…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies…
— Joseph Addison
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I prefer writing originals.
— Tony Gilroy
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To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only…
— Archie Shepp
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How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.
— Blaise Pascal
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How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.
— Blaise Pascal
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History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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I love to sing, and I've recorded a few covers and originals with friends, but I haven't written any songs.
— Miranda Kerr
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The premise of 'The Originals' are places that have been open 50, 60, 75, 100 years or longer that are still doing it right that…
— Emeril Lagasse
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I have done a lot of work in Hollywood myself. I worked in television for roughly 10 years, from the mid-'80s to mid-'90s. And I…
— George R. R. Martin
Who Wrote These Originals Quotes
30 authors contributed a total of 39 Originals Quotes, led by these top contributors: