"Only God creates. The rest of us 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."
"He who can copy can do."
"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."
"Never copy yourself, always copy someone else."
"I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it."
"To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic."
"I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again."
"You can't copy style, you gotta create your own."
"No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document."
"There are more copies than originals among people."
"To copy faults is want of sense."
"Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth."
"My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies."
"It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it."
"Unless your answers are clearly better, copy the answers of your betters."
"The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals."
"Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies?"
"If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are."
"Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy"
"Everything in art is but a copy of nature."