Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daddy Yankee

Reggaeton means the same thing to Latino youth as hip-hop does to African-American kids. We didn't have artists to look up to before. But the young kids now, they're looking at Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderon and Ivy Queen like kids in the American 'hood look up to 50 Cent or 2Pac. I'm representing for my culture and my people. It's their music.

John Cusack

Our parents more or less just kind of wanted us to pursue our passions. Whatever they would have been, they would have helped light the fire. They are very liberal, artistic people, but they didn't force us into acting. They let us find our own ways.

Keith Davis

Parks was a man of perhaps unparalleled artistic talent.

Susan Baker

Paul Kellogg has been a beloved and visionary leader of City Opera and we will miss him deeply. During the past ten years we have been fortunate to have had the benefit not only of his extraordinary artistic sensibility, his wise counsel and his inspirational leadership, but also of his impeccable human values, warmth and charm. That said, we cannot help but understand that he wishes to have more personal time after many years of service to the arts and we salute and thank him for his formidable accomplishments and significant contributions both to City Opera and to opera in general. Paul Kellogg's vision for City Opera has charted our course for the coming years. We are grateful beyond measure and will miss him profoundly.

Susan Barnes

Our lives are so hectic today. I don't care what we are, artists or whatever, people need to come and enjoy it.

Pam Walker

Our legal folks say we don't have copyright clearance. Graphics artists are working on it as we speak.

Karen Hughes

Our music and film industries, our artists and entertainers create very powerful impressions, sometimes good, sometimes bad, but they're always, always powerful.

Stephanie Szostak

People in fashion treat it as a business... I guess Hollywood is a business, too, but you talk about story: you talk about a more artistic world than in fashion.

James Hunter

People often think that every artist in that realm had the same qualities. If I want emotional intensity, I'll listen to Little Willie John, but if I want some pyrotechnics, I'll go to Jackie Wilson. It's not all the same emotional level, that stuff, which people make the mistake of thinking it is.

Edmund Burke

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.

Baltasar Gracian

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.

Denis Waitley

We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.

Eric Hoffer

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength

Jeaniene Frost

I’m the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation.

Ernst Moritz Arndt

Who has no own conviction dissipates himself in the imitation of others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Borrowed wit is the poorest wit.

Sean Combs

I was like a wonder kid at Uptown. The first record I produced sold two million copies - and I'd only produced it because the producer didn't show up.

Alexis de Tocqueville

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies

Steve Swasey

If we have more demand for a specific movie than we have copies of that movie, we will give preference to our lower-volume customers.

Jamie Wyeth

I have copies of the books my grandfather illustrated for Scribner's in each house. I read those books all the time.

Ken Johnson

Much of the increase in generic drug use advocated by Express Scripts involves switching patients to medicines different from those prescribed by their physicians. They are not generic copies of the prescribed treatments. Patients differ from one another, as do medicines in a therapeutic class. It is important that the patient and his or her physician determine which medicine is right for the patient.

Liu Jun

Since lots of people's marriages are similar copies of their parents, it's essential to know about the family background.

McRae Reed

We sent out about 200 copies of the first record and within a month, everyone seemed to be playing it.

Dario Argento

Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.

Jyoti Basu

We were satisfied with the response of the front partners (at the meeting). But, to reassure them further, we distributed copies of the politburo document, which we normally don't.