Quotes About Copy

They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That's like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies.

I pastiche, I quote, I lie. Fake, forge, forage, fabricate, copy, borrow, transform, steal. I illusion. I'm a genuine deceiver, a shy sham artist.

Lady, you are the cruel'st she alive If you will lead these graces to the grave And leave the world no copy.

You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

What Robert was trying to do so intently was, in fact, no more than craft. He did no more than copy my tics and twitches—even to the point of staring at my family portrait, a very personal part of my disguise, for his character research—

I was struggling, I was hungry, I was a freelance copy editor but had very little work.

I don't think I ever modeled myself after a singer. I've more or less copied the styles of horn-tooters right from the start.

I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my face. I think I'm really observant, and thinking how a person is put together, seeing them on the street and noticing subtle things about them that make them who they are.

Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created.

I think editors are excellent marketers. They know their audience and produce copy to appeal to them - they just don't call it marketing.

Everything is destined to reappear as simulation. Landscapes as photography, woman as the sexual scenario, thoughts as writing, terrorism as fashion and the media, events as television. Things seem only to exist by virtue of this strange destiny. You wonder whether the world itself isn't just here to serve as advertising copy in some other world.' Jean Baudrillard

El imitador es como un canal. Él mismo no bebe, pero puede llevar el agua hasta los sedientos.

El mismo Rumi dijo una vez que únicamente se puede encontrar oro falso porque existe una cosa que es el oro real para ser copiado.

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.

People think we choreograph. We dance four years in clubs. We watch videos every day. We do a step, it ends up a sensation, and for us it was just a copy maybe of a Gene Kelly video.

The Senior Council-- Couldn't find its heart if it had a copy of Grey's Anatomy , X-ray vision, and a stethoscope.

Would you rather fail being original or successful being an imitation?

A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials.

One day a pal showed Comfort a copy of the Guinness Book of World Records. Under the heading "Jewels, Record Robbery," Comfort found the Pierre Hotel robbery listed. An unofficial estimate ran as high as $5 million, the entry read.

The Malus Codicum. It was an infernal book, thrice damned. I knew of no other copy in existence. One half of the Inquisition would kill me to get their hands on it, the other half would burn me for having it in my possession.

Instapaper does support paywall sites. I have a list of them, that when someone saves something it sends a copy of the page as they are viewing it only to them. If you subscribe to a paid site, you can save the content. I'm not really touching the money.

But for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence [...] truth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred. Sacredness is in fact held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to 'be the highest degree of sacredness.

the present age... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence... truth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred. Sacredness is, in fact, held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be seen as the highest degree of sacredness.

He shook out a copy of The Manchester Guardian. He had noticed that conservative newspapers sometimes inspired confidence in the shy.