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Quotes About Copying

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.
~ Vinny Guadagnino
Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
~ Ursula Burns
An e-bike is like headphones, you can say you have patents, but people will still copy.
~ Ray J
How came the people to err? How happens it that, when seeking liberty and equality, they fell back into privilege and slavery? Always through copying the ancient régime.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
I kept reverting to my basic question: how does it help us to say that the Bible is the inerrant word of God if in fact we don't have the words that God inerrantly inspired, but only the words copied by the scribes—sometimes correctly and sometimes (many times!) incorrectly?
~ Darrell L. Bock
Unlike brand-building activities, most sales promotions are easily copied. In fact, competitors must retaliate or suffer unacceptable losses.
~ David A. Aaker
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
Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.
~ Lucian Freud
The long-lived gene as an evolutionary unit is not any particular physical structure but the textual archival information that is copied on down the generations. [I]t is widely distributed in space among different individuals, and widely distributed in time over many generations. [A] successful gene will be one that does well in the environments provided by these other genes that it is likely to meet in lots of different bodies.
~ Richard Dawkins
Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My mom just told me the lines, because I didn't know how to read yet. I copied them and that's what I did.
~ Hudson Yang
They copied my product, they copied my strategies yet they failed miserably in the business, because they couldn't copy my professionalism.
~ Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful.
~ David Boies
Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up.
~ Wally Wood
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
~ Anatole France
Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple.
~ Steve Jobs
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
Life is like a blank page, copying manuscript written Backstage.
~ Jawwad Zafar
I've never heard Donald Trump say that he watches 'House of Cards,' but I'd be really shocked if he didn't because he appears to be copying Frank more than we're copying the current administration.
~ Michael Kelly
Originality is undetected plagiarism.
~ William Inge
My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
~ Manuel Puig
The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.
~ Edward Dahlberg
I did go bankrupt because everybody copied me - every single industry. But genuinely, it doesn't matter. I swear I don't care.
~ Maripol