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It's nice to have a game that sells a million copies. -- John Carmack
Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine. -- Douglas Coupland
It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection. -- Maurice Wilkins
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. -- Pablo Picasso
Good artists copy, great artists steal. -- Pablo Picasso
If you copy then it is not self-expression. -- Michael Schenker
There was no one in particular I really tried to copy. -- Caroline Corr
Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies? -- Edward Young
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes. -- Jimi Hendrix
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies. -- Irving Berlin
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away. -- Clarence Darrow
I just saw a copy of a cover of a magazine that I'm on, and it's very weird and unusual. -- Mia Kirshner
No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers. -- Richard Heber
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. -- Pablo Picasso
I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides. -- Richard Cobden
I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author. -- Robert Benchley
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does. -- William Blake
If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results. -- Tony Robbins
I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes. -- Erma Bombeck
Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper -- Bill Walsh
If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music. -- Billie Holiday
No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it. -- Gary Wright
It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory. -- Edgar Degas
I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked? -- Richard Russo
Software production is like any other production the preceded it, no raw materials are required, no time is required and no effort is required, you can make a million Copies of Software instantaneously for free and its very unique about that. -- John McAfee
For the three years I lived in New York leading up to moving out to Los Angeles for 'Mad Men,' I was an office temp at Ernst & Young in Times Square. That's about as desk-jobby as it can get. There was a lot of, 'Go two floors up and make a copy of this and then bring it to me.' -- Rich Sommer
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
I think it'd be a real nightmare to put a record out and sell 20 million copies and then that's it. -- Lenny Kravitz
We print 37 million copies, and we found out about the unfortunate news as we were putting the issue to bed. -- Olivia Newton-John
Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose. -- Andy Rooney
The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence. -- Leonardo da Vinci
When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school. -- Jensen Ackles
When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalog ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school. -- Jensen Ackles
Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails. -- Felix Dennis
I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned. -- Jung Chang
You know when you first get rich, and you, like, just buy everything that you see? I did that for several years. And I have sheds full of things, maybe sometimes nine copies of the same thing. -- Roseanne Barr
CD stores have the disadvantage of an expensive inventory, but digital bookshops would need no such thing: they could write copies at the time of sale on to memory sticks, and sell you one if you forgot your own. -- Richard Stallman
The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books, and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at all. And then it comes out, and two reviews are published, and it sells 12 copies. -- George R. R. Martin
I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it. -- Tom Glazer
And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model. -- Lucian Freud
When Jack Swagger copies my Ankle Lock and Randy Orton does my Angle Slam, it's disrespectful. I didn't come up with the Ankle Lock; Ken Shamrock came up with the Ankle Lock, but I waited until he retired to do the Ankle Lock. -- Kurt Angle
I pattern my actions and life after what I want. No two people are alike. You might admire attributes in others, but use these only as a guide in improving yourself in your own unique way. I don't go for carbon copies. Individualism is sacred! -- Richard Chamberlain
It's true, I had hacked into a lot of companies, and took copies of the source code to analyze it for security bugs. If I could locate security bugs, I could become better at hacking into their systems. It was all towards becoming a better hacker. -- Kevin Mitnick
I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are. -- Jose Saramago
Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor. -- Steve Jobs
We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality. -- Maj Sjowall
Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings themselves. The copies can only repeat themselves word for word. A virus is a copy. You can pretty it up, cut it up, scramble it - it will reassemble in the same form. -- William S. Burroughs
I've worked with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years, and we have this magnificent photographer, Tad Motoyama. He takes these wonderful, wonderful animal pictures. All through the years he's given me copies of these pictures. Well, I have all these gorgeous ones, so I said, 'Tad, I want to do a book with your picture on one side.' -- Betty White
You know, if a band on a label sold a few hundred thousand copies of their record these days, they wouldn't make any money. But if a band can pump out 10 million copies of a record for free, and 50,000 of those fans come to the band's website to watch pay-per-view videos or buy a t-shirt, that's roughly $10 million in revenue per year. -- Tom DeLonge
Yes, but keep copies. -- Samuel Goldwyn
Beauty brings copies of itself into being. -- Elaine Scarry
My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies. -- Randy Bachman
Destroy the old files, but make copies first. -- Samuel Goldwyn
There are more copies than originals among people. -- Pablo Picasso
How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies. -- James Russell Lowell
You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies. -- Jo Walton
They are all cheap copies and every one of them is forgotten. -- James W. Bodden
Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies. -- Abraham Lincoln
I don't like walking in the street and seeing 30,000 copies of myself. -- John Lydon
Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up. -- Don Henley
I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas. -- Olivia De Havilland
I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas." -- Olivia De Havilland
Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs. -- Dennis Ritchie
Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books. -- Richard Allington
The universe is just a big Xerox machine. It simply produces copies of your thoughts. -- Neale Donald Walsch
One essential ingredient for being an original in the day of copies is courageous vision. -- Charles R. Swindoll
The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films. -- Om Puri
We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies? -- Edward Young
In a bureaucracy, they shoot the bull, pass the buck, and make seven copies of everything. -- Charles E. McKenzie
The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band -- Brian Eno
Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea. -- Colin Angle
There have to be at least two copies of a photograph, otherwise it's not a photograph. -- Thomas Ruff
My first book was a car crash. I tried to find all the copies and destroy them. -- John Burnside
Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters. -- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Our first record, 'Huey Lewis And The News', was seen by no one - it sold 25 copies. -- Huey Lewis
I can't get a relationship to last longer than it takes to make copies of their tapes. -- Margaret Smith
Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves. -- Siddhartha Mukherjee
History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document. -- Renata Adler
I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing. -- Howard Hodgkin
I never sent promotional copies to Christian radio stations in my life. It's not what I'm interested in. -- Larry Norman
It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It's since sold millions of copies. -- Jack Canfield
We live in a world of copies and we're fascinated when we encounter the originals (in a museum, for instance). -- Susan Sontag
God makes originals not carbon copies. It's okay to be inspired by someone, but be bold enough to be yourself. -- Tony Gaskins
In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all over the world. -- Bonnie Tyler
I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying. -- Penelope Spheeris
The only time I made money was when I licensed my own solo guitar record, which sold maybe seven copies. -- Sasha Frere-Jones
Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays. -- Coco Chanel
Sometimes, I go to Barnes & Noble with the sole intention of moving all copies of the bible to the fiction section. -- Zach Braff
Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them. -- James Anthony Froude
No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses. -- Wislawa Szymborska
I think it's counterproductive for actors to come to the set with well-thumbed copies of the book their film is adapted from. -- Charles Dance
Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects. -- Vladimir Lenin
A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well. -- Ben Lovett
Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around. -- Zadie Smith
There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies? -- Jodie Foster
Jonah peered critically up at the Renaissance masterpiece. "Man, those copies don't due it justice. This one's the truth!" "Only a Janus," groaned Hamilton. -- Gordon Korman
I challenge those who are in business and other professions to see that there are copies of the Book of Mormon in their reception rooms. -- Ezra Taft Benson
I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said 'I'll just print another ten'. -- Eric Sykes
I remember my mom had a big collection of copies of Saturday Evening Post magazines, and that was really my introduction to those great illustrators. -- Thomas Kincade
I remember my mom had a big collection of copies of Saturday Evening Post magazines, and that was really my introduction to those great illustrators. -- Thomas Kincade
Every time one of my books sells a million copies in paperback, Pan Macmillan gives me a gold statuette of Pan. I have about 20 of them. -- Wilbur Smith
Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one. -- Jim Henson
We're taking requests from customers who are looking for certain used copies. We already found 18 to 20 Louis L'Amour books that were on a customer's request list. -- Andrew Goodman
Very few people have the nerve to grab their dreams. Most that you meet will be half-images or carbon copies of who they really want to be. -- Sai Marie Johnson
There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: 'What's your sign?' Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated. -- Dick Cavett
... For Dawkins, evolution is a battle among genes, each seeking to make more copies of itself. Bodies are merely the places where genes aggregate for a time ... -- Stephen Jay Gould
If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows. This is not innovation; this is the end of innovation. -- Larry Ellison
Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, 'how will it help us sell more copies of Windows? -- Bill Gates
It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra. -- H. Beam Piper
And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species - to an intelligent robot that can make evolved copies of itself. -- Bill Joy
My first book was so horrible I have deleted all copies of it. Thankfully, it was before the Internet, so there are no lurking caches of it anywhere. -- Andy Weir
It's a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies, you are really getting some place. -- Ruth Stout
Digital books and music are often different from their physical counterparts in that consumers buy licences to a work, revocable under an ongoing contract, rather than their own copies. -- Jonathan Zittrain

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