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• We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldn’t have even a fraction of my current success.

  Mohnish Pabrai

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• You can imagine a soul as being a detailed, elaborate pattern that exists very clearly in one brain. When a person dies, the original is no longer around. But there are other versions of it in other people’s brains. It’s a less detailed copy, it’s coarse-grained.

  Douglas Hofstadter

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• Original ‘Dallas’ fans, please come back, because it’s the same show 20 years later – same drama.

  Josh Henderson

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• Sometimes, in order to imitate the original, it is necessary to put something that is not in the original into a portrait in marble.

  Gian Lorenzo Bernini

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• So for everybody who allows themselves to be separated from me because I said ‘African’ instead of ‘Nubian’ or ‘Black’ or ‘Kemet’ or ‘original’ or ‘Israelite,’ don’t be so foolish. I say ‘African’ because the continent of Africa is the land from which we all originate. It is the word that we are most familiar with right now.

  Sister Souljah

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• I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.

  Patti Smith

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• I don’t think American independent films have ever really been particularly experimental, except for the original guys from the ’60s who were huge influences, like Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, and Stan van der Beek. They were the true independents.

  Gus Green Van Sant Jr.

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• First of all, in the old days, if you wanted to show someone getting shot on film, all you could do was place an effect in the original take. And if you wanted to brighten somebody’s face and leave the rest of the room dark, that was a very expensive process.

  George A. Romero

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• Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I’ve ever known.

  Chuck Palahniuk

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• The most successful people are so original.

  Idina Menzel

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• I’m trying to focus on original material. That is what I’ve had my luck with.

  Idina Menzel

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• Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

  Adam Lambert

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• No baby boomer has a completely original idea, but after 13 years on ‘Today’ and another 11 on ‘Dateline,’ almost 30 years total at NBC, I felt the urge to find out what was ‘behind the camera.’ I had the feeling there was ‘something more,’ though ‘more’ might be less.

  Jane Pauley

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• Up until college age I was using the typical little-boy dummy that sits on the knee and makes woodpecker jokes. My first original character didn’t happen until later, and that was Jose the Jalapeno on a Stick.

  Jeff Dunham

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• It’s an honor to have been part of something so core to so many lives. The show has evolved beyond it’s original intent and form and has transcended… itself!

  Christopher Knight

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• I’ve got nothing very original to say myself.

  A. N. Wilson

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• By definition a sequel can’t be original. So you’ve got to figure out what worked the first time around.

  Barry Sonnenfeld

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• When the whole point of Queen was to be original.

  Freddie Mercury

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• There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

  Judith Butler

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• The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.

  Tobe Hooper

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