Michelangelo
Sculptor, Painter, Architect, Poet
"Only God creates. The rest of us just copy."
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Copies
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Abraham Lincoln
Political Leader
"Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies."
Bill Monroe
Musician
"I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody."
Pablo Picasso
Painter, Sculptor
"Good designers copy; great designers steal."
Lauryn Hill
Singer, Songwriter
"We call ourselves creators and we just copy."
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"We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as we can."
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"He who can copy can do."
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"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."
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"Never copy yourself, always copy someone else."
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"I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it."
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"To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic."
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"I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again."
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"You can't copy style, you gotta create your own."
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"No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document."
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"There are more copies than originals among people."
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"To copy faults is want of sense."
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"Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth."
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"My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies."
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"It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it."
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"Unless your answers are clearly better, copy the answers of your betters."
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"The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals."
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"Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies?"
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"If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are."
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"Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy"
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"Everything in art is but a copy of nature."
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