Original Copy Quotes

#1. I feel responsible to make something original as a Japanese artist. There are lots of singers and guitarists, but I feel that on stage it's meaningless to copy something someone has done before.

Miyavi

#2. Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.

Jaron Lanier

#3. Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.

Madame De Stael

#4. Be the original, not the copy.

Amit Pandit

#5. I was created a copy. I want more than anything to be an original.

Heather Hildenbrand

#6. Always feel as if I were reading to you a carbon copy of myself and you've already seen the original. You seem to hear everything I say a minute in advance. We're unsynchronized." "You call that unsynchronized?" "All right. Too well synchronized.

Ayn Rand

#7. An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

Jean Cocteau

#8. It's okay to be yourself. An original always worth more than a copy.
- Alif , Velvet di Durham -

Aishah Madadiy

#9. We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldn't have even a fraction of my current success.

Mohnish Pabrai

#10. Pavel Durov only knows how to copy great products like Facebook and 'WhatsApp'; he never had and will never have original ideas.

Jan Koum

#11. Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of 'original sin' does not mean that humans are punished for the sin of the first human pair but, rather, that humans seem inevitably to copy the sin of the first human pair.

David Novak

#12. I'd like to be an original, to be myself and not a pale copy of anyone else.

Julie Andrews

#13. You were born an original, don't die a copy

John Mason Brown

#14. The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

Ludwig Feuerbach

#15. She was herself, the original. Everyone else was just a copy.

Jon Courtenay Grimwood

#16. Be yourself, because an original is better than a copy.

Greyson Chance

#17. Multiplication is the will of God, but not necessarily duplication. God has made you an original masterpiece, so don't seek to be a carbon copy.

Hope D. Blackwell

#18. [T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist.

Jacques Barzun

#19. I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn't want to copy anybody's style.

Jana Novotna

#20. Each of us was meant to be an original, but most of us die merely a copy. Anyone who discovers who God made him or her to be would never want to be anyone else.

Bill Johnson

#21. REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it from a "copy," which is made by another artist. When the two are mae with equal skill the replica is the more valuable, for it is suppose

Ambrose Bierce

#22. A lot of pop music has come out of people failing to copy their model and accidentally creating something new. The closer you get to your ideal, the less original you sound.

Elvis Costello

#23. The best way to be original is to not copy anyone.

Sebastyne Young

#24. You become a leader when you decide to be an original and not a copy.

Myles Munroe

#25. The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal.

C.S. Lewis

#26. You can imagine a soul as being a detailed, elaborate pattern that exists very clearly in one brain. When a person dies, the original is no longer around. But there are other versions of it in other people's brains. It's a less detailed copy, it's coarse-grained.

Douglas Hofstadter

#27. When something original works, then everyone wants to copy it. But if you're trying to do something that no one's ever seen before it's frightening.

Chris Carter

#28. How does a copy become more than a copy? Is art the creation of something new and original, or simply the continuous enlargement, or the distillation, of an observation that came before

Madeleine Thien

#29. A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.

Louis Armstrong

#30. [T]he present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original[.]

Ludwig Feuerbach

#31. you were born an original, don't become a copy.

Anonymous

#32. What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?

Chuck Palahniuk

#33. A fake is a copy, a duplicate, a facsimile of an original. The professional coach is authentic - the real deal.

Michael J. Marx

#34. Why settle for being a carbon copy; when you were created to be an original?

James A. Jimason

#35. Be yourself. An original is always worth more than a copy.

Suzy Kassem

#36. You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.

Marian Wright Edelman

#37. Be yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.

Suzy Kassem

#38. And then certainly, whatsoever you do - your character, your behaviour - is yours, authentically yours. It has your signature on it. Then you are not a carbon copy, you are original. The Zen people call it finding the original face.

Rajneesh

#39. Keep it simple. Trust your imagination. Discover what is unique about your imagination. Don't simply read a story and copy it.
I go into myself. Then I transcribe what visions I have. If those ideas are original, and you are devoted, you will go far.

Clive Barker

#40. Everyday we just copy&paste ourselves from the previous day instead of creating a new blank page and be something different and original.

Marcelo Goianira

#41. Make genuine love the foundation life is here to enjoy in the most positive ways,not to copy others but to be an original of you.

Marcelle Hinkson

#42. You were born original don't die a copy

Ben Mikaelsen