Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Kate Jackson

We had a lot of copies out on a table, and all of a sudden we realized that in the photo on the back of the jacket he was holding a cigarette,

Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

David Bailey

You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.

There are a lot of copies out there.

Caroline Corr

There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.

There are copies and copies of copies. We're sorting through it.

Glenn Miller

We started 14 months ago. The original edition was 10,000 copies and we're now up to 70,000.

Bre Pettis

We got involved with the RepRap Project, a community focused on making 3-D printers that could make copies of themselves and help create a world without money. We started making prototypes.

While there may still be a few copies of the JavaScript around which try to download this trojan, it will no longer be able to do so.

Dick Cavett

There was also evidence of misbehavior backstage, ... Stubbed-out joints, copies of Jack Kerouac, a copy of Ulysses in the detritus of the dressing room.

They are well on the path to delivering. Delivery of multiple cores, in a way, is easy because it's just extra copies of the existing processor.

The township received the administrative order on Wednesday and has provided the solicitor, engineer and management system with copies for review and comment. A meeting to discuss this issue will be scheduled in the near future.

Don Shula

Learn from everyone, copy no one.

Nick Harkaway

Digital books are still painfully ugly and weirdly irritating to interact with. They look like copies of paper, but they can't be designed or typeset in the same way as paper, and however splendid the cover images may look on a hi-res screen, they're still images rather than physical things.

Vint Cerf

It would be a mistake to think that because a particular technology can be used to distribute illegal copies therefore you should just run away from it.

They all wanted 15-20 copies of the product.

Steve Smith

There will be times when you can see from the look on his face, that even though Greg is sitting there, he's really somewhere else. You might think he's taking notes on the sermon, but he's actually writing musical notes. Sometimes, he'll disappear and the next thing you know he's back with copies of music in his hand that he wants us to sing. He has a lot of trust in us as sight readers.

The theme of counterfeits, of those that produce and sell them, has always been part of the culture of M.I.A. When I was contacted by Versace, it seemed a great idea to invert the circle. Versace's designs have always been copied; now it's Versace that copies the copies, so those that copy must copy the copies. So this will continue.

Carl Rogers

We will also be trying to circulate copies overseas, particularly in Denmark, where people are really keen on walking.

It was just overwhelming. The key to the Hard Rock is authenticity. There are no copies of anything.

It's going to be the archives, and it's going to be the generational copies that they never get back.

Lawrence Halprin

It's not an imposed idea at all. Not like the Washington Monument, an Egyptian idea. Not like the Jefferson and Lincoln memorials, Greek or Roman or copies of other times. It's a place that is of this time, of this era. I think of it as an American monument to a great American president.

a young Pakistani who works there (Urenco) and there are indications that he is doing things he shouldn't. He takes home information and copies it. And we have to sort that out. And maybe deny him entry from now on.

A small number of IT vendors are at the moment putting customers at risk of unwittingly running illegal software. Microsoft will not tolerate illegal copies of its software being sold.