Kevin Gates
Rapper, singer, songwriter
"It is illegal to steal my feelings and leave"
Stealing quotes
Stealing
323 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Alexander the Great
Military Leader, King
"I do not steal victory."
Jim Harrison
Novelist, Poet
"Death steals everything except our stories."
Tom Waits
Singer-songwriter, Actor
"Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company."
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"Bad artists copy. Good artists steal."
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"A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody."
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"I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence."
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"Talent borrows, genius steals!"
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"Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born."
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"If you steal from one person is Theft, and if you steal from Lots of people is Research"
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"Pain has no effect but to steal some of my time."
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"Good designers copy; great designers steal."
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"No one earns $100 million. You steal $100 million."
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"Only your friends steal your books."
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"I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar."
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"Holding back is so close to stealing."
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"It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals."
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"He who steals a hook shall be hanged; while he who steals the state shall be crowned as prince."
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"Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves."
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"If you want to learn something, just steal it."
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"Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself."
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"I don't steal things. I'm rich."
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"Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service."
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"We could steal time, just for one day We can be Heroes, for ever and ever What d'you say?"
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