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Quotes About Originality

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.
~ Ritchie Blackmore
Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.
~ Joss Whedon
I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
~ Mae West
One thing I always think about in making a market, and it again is something I have learned from Sam [Palmisano] as well, he always says, "Be first and be lonely."
~ Ginni Rometty
One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.
~ Sheila Heti
Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
I think that most of the women when they dress in the morning, they try to be someone elseToday there is too much retouching, and I don't like it...except on me.
~ Carine Roitfeld
The woman who follows the crowd will usually believe that I said this.
~ Albert Einstein
Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.
~ Frank Crowninshield
I love women like Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton, who kind of go out on a limb and do their own thing. I find it very inspiring and it allows you to do what you want to do.
~ Malin Akerman
Ordinary people pursue money, simple people pursue power, average people pursue fame, but extraordinary people pursue ideas.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Being Uniquely YOU is the New Perfect.
~ Stephanie Lahart
Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
~ Anna Wintour
Be yourself....and make the world adjust!
~ Germany Kent
Skill follows the rules, talent breaks the rules, mastery shatters the rules, but genius makes its own rules.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
~ Alan Ashley-Pitt
Be true to who you are. Don't let the world tell you who to be.
~ Germany Kent
When everybody is planting apples a visionary plants oranges.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Thinking outside of the box is unnecessary when there are no boxes in your imagination.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Carving your own path gets you to greatness quicker than following someone else's trail.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Be yourself, be brave.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
In a world full of game players, the only way to set yourself apart is to be a game changer.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A woman's beauty should not imitate art.
~ Lionel Suggs
When I became a standup comic, my hero, one of them, was Richard Pryor, and you know, I think that comedians, like, comedians talk about hacks, and what a hack is, is someone who does stuff that's not original.
~ Artie Lange