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Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. -- Stephen Gardiner
I feel very, very proud that so many people have copied me. -- Alec Issigonis
Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons. -- Richard Wright
I was an accomplished computer trespasser. I don't consider myself a thief. I copied without permission. -- Kevin Mitnick
Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit by bit with the right equipment. -- Jon Johansen
I'll be honest. We copied everyone... the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you. -- Maurice Gibb
The Saviour reigned in all their hearts, and they successfully copied the pattern of meekness and gentleness, which he had left them. -- John Strachan
In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly. -- Nathan Myhrvold
Eight years of work can be copied in six months. It wasn't inevitable that it was going to work. A stolen design is stolen time. -- Jonathan Ive
Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately. -- Edith Head
It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music. -- Tom Petty
Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone copied him. Some copied all of them and it became trendy and then it became a style. -- Bill Laswell
Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive. -- Kevin Mitnick
Prosecutors say it would be next to impossible to get one teen to testify in court that another had slipped him or her a copied disc at lunchtime. And besides, isn't sharing music a time-honored part of teen friendship? -- Charles Duhigg
I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys. -- Bruce Willis
I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.' Six months later Marc Benioff, finding out what NetSuite was doing, and kind of copied it. -- Larry Ellison
Margaret Thatcher had more impact on the world than any woman ruler since Catherine the Great of Russia. Not only did she turn around - decisively - the British economy in the 1980s, she also saw her methods copied in more than 50 countries. -- Paul Johnson
If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that Google wants, it's a world where information is copied so much on the Internet that nobody knows where it came from anymore, so there can't be any rights of authorship. -- Jaron Lanier
Hordes of young girls never copied my hairdos or the way I talk or the way I dress. I have, therefore, never had to go through the stress of perpetuating an image that's often the equivalent of one particular song that forever freezes a precise moment of one's youth. -- Simone Signoret
Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest in innovation. But too much protection can strangle competition and can limit what economists call 'incremental innovation' - innovations that build, in some way, on others. -- James Surowiecki
Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves: an original image, then the manipulations of it, then the places where image and idea intersected. This created a crucial perceptual glitch that irony and understanding filled. -- Jerry Saltz
I used to do my own make-up. I used to have this doll that had those big eyelashes on the top and bottom, and I think I copied her when I was doing my eyes, putting false eyelashes on the bottom as well as the top. So I came up with that look myself. -- Twiggy
When you work with a legend as I do, it's wonderful. There's so many things I've learned working with Keith. He's so patient, not only with me, but with everyone in our crew and with the audience and with the game. He has a style that is so easy and will never be copied. -- Dan Fouts
In an economy where more and more value is in information - is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can be copied essentially for free - any time you have that situation, economic schemes that rely on existing models of intellectual property laws for protection are going to do less and less well. -- Mitch Kapor
Everybody copied Atari products. So we started messing with them and it was fun. We bought enough chips that we could get them mislabeled. So we bankrupted at least two companies which copied our boards, and bought all the parts but they were the wrong parts, so they're sitting on all this inventory they can't sell because the games don't work. -- Nolan Bushnell
I kept listening, kept going to see people, kept sitting in with people, kept listening to records. If I wanted to learn somebody's stuff, like with Clapton, when I wanted to learn how he was getting some of his sounds - which were real neat - I learned how to make the sounds with my mouth and then copied that with my guitar. -- Stevie Ray Vaughan
Faults are soon copied. -- Horace
Nature should be idealised not copied. -- Owen Jones Classics
Billy copied Casey to a 'T.' -- Mickey Mantle
As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel. -- Sigmar Polke
Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else. -- Sam Walton
. . .nature indifferently copied is far superior to the best idealities. -- John James Audubon
The model is not to be copied, but to be realized. -- Robert Henri
I feel very, very proud that so many people have copied me -- Alec Issigonis
Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe. -- Minoru Yamasaki
Mozart never composed anything, ever! He copied what was written on his soul. -- Marc Chagall
Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction. -- Seth Lloyd
Whatever, I copied all through school, and look how well Iâ??m doing today. -- Adrian Young
The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books -- Paracelsus
A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he. -- John Dryden
If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization. --
I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand. -- Joanna Southcott
There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied. -- Alan Watts
I rather want my things to be copied than me copying. I would feel ashamed! -- Karl Lagerfeld
Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman. -- Seth Godin
I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand. -- Alberto Giacometti
I find it really disappointing and cheap when someone's copied the whole drum sound from a record. -- Alexis Taylor
How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers? -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
I copied everything I did in Galaxy Quest from Bill Paxton in Aliens, I owe him some credit. -- Sam Rockwell
Fundamentally, Eva is just my life copied out onto film. I'm [still] alive, so the story hasn't finished. -- Hideaki Anno
There must be nothing in my daily conduct that, copied by another, could lead that one into unholiness. -- Helen Roseveare
I have an amazing social-media wing man who manages my Facebook fan site. All my blogs get copied there. -- Jason Mraz
Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit by bit with the right equipment. -- Jon Johansen
I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note. -- Joe Pass
We have tried to get closer to them, but we never copied anybody, we always tried to play our football -- Arsene Wenger
[Nazi] copied stuff from us for their "final solution" but we get to walk around like we're the good guys. -- Bill Burr
What! nothing grand and noble to be admired, obeyed, copied? Ah, the lack is not without you, but within you! -- Julia McNair Wright
I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did. -- Harold Nicholas
I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong. -- Eugene Ormandy
They copied my product, they copied my strategies yet they failed miserably in the business, because they couldn't copy my professionalism. -- Amit Kalantri
I always putted without a glove but I have no idea why - I saw others doing it and copied them. -- Seve Ballesteros
Above all things-read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied. -- Ngaio Marsh
Including a mention of your impressive record....The man who had penetrated and copied over a thousand techniques.. Kakashi the mirror ninja. -- Masashi Kishimoto
Everything I touched in the kitchen turned out crappy, no matter how closely I followed the recipe or copied the cooking show. -- Drew Barrymore
I did go bankrupt because everybody copied me - every single industry. But genuinely, it doesn't matter. I swear I don't care. -- Maripol
We were the first Fascists, when we had 100,000 disciplined men, and were training children, Mussolini was still an unknown. Mussolini copied our Fascism. -- Marcus Garvey
If Bradley Manning was the person who copied the secret US diplomatic cables to WikilLeaks, he is a hero for exposing human rights abuses. -- Peter Tatchell
I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office! -- Matthew Lesko
They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind. -- Rudyard Kipling
Good brands reflect the histories of the time and the group of people that made them. They can not be copied. They can not be recycled. -- Richard Branson
So they, who climb to wealth, forget The friends in darker fortunes tried. I copied them--but I regret That I should ape the ways of pride. -- William C. Bryant
Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that very glibness. -- Virginia Woolf
I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When I am no longer being copied, I shall know that I am a back number. ... the fear of being copied is often the characteristic of the meager imagination. -- Elsie de Wolfe
It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, 'Don't play like me, play like you.' -- Eric Clapton
Fair play is an English word. It is not a French word, and it has been copied all over the world. Unfortunately, it does not function any more here. -- Arsene Wenger
We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can't copy the heart and the soul and the conscience of the company. -- Howard Schultz
I copied (Shoeless Joe) Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's the guy who made me a hitter. -- Babe Ruth
What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakeable, unforgettable, unshamable, elemental as earth and ice, water, fire and air, a quintessence, pure spirit, resolving into no constituents. -- Jay Griffiths
You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third. -- C. S. Lewis
The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of revenge and violence -- roles reversed. And reversed and reversed ad nauseam. -- Frank Herbert
I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination. -- Don Novello

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