Famous Quotes & Sayings

What the other countries are doing, you just copy it. The system's easy. I steal all my training ideas from the Norwegians, OK? I steal all my shooting ideas from the Germans. It's not like it's that hard. It's very simple to do.

Charles Mingus

If Charlie Parker were a Gunslinger, There'd be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats

Michael Morpurgo

It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwriting doesn't inhibit the creative flow. When I was at school there was a huge focus on copying and testing and it put me off words and stories for years.

Niall Ferguson

It's great to see countries like China and India lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty by essentially copying Western ways of doing things.

VCs aren't going to fund something that will extend copyright infringement,

Jeff Bezos

Ultimately publishers and copyright holders will get to make those decisions about how much those pages cost,

Jeff Bezos

Ultimately for each individual book, pricing will be up to the copyright holders, ... The copyright holders are the ones who get to make these decisions.

Tom Jackson

Like a perfect tennis serve, a perfect golf swing or a perfect omelet, a perfect resume takes more effort than simply copying what others do,

Maria Semple

When I graduated high school, I was one of many English-majors-to-be traveling through Europe with a copy of 'Let's Go Europe' in one hand, 'Anna Karenina' in the other, a Eurail pass for a bookmark.

Tom Rachman

The way I found time to write 'The Imperfectionists' was that I took work as a copy editor at the 'International Herald Tribune' in Paris, working full-time for approximately six months, then taking my savings from that and writing full-time, then returning after six months, and so on, until the book was done!

She has no memory of seeing such a memo. There is no copy of such a memo in her files or any of her staff files. There's no knowledge that this memo was ever sent or received.

Since you can't copy our pleasures, you begrudge them.

Most TV and radio stations view the Internet as an opportunity to enhance their service to listeners and viewers. There are some issues that have to be addressed like copyright protection, which is critical for broadcasters and some legal issues. But ultimately broadcasters will be huge players in the Internet.

Mr. Harper will receive a copy of the report when the (Liberal) government gets it.

We need copyright protection but we must not stifle technology to get it.

Legal or illegal, Napster doesn't feel right, ... It doesn't give the copyright holders their share.

She's going to have to deliver the standard copy lines effectively. It sounds easier to do, but when it's 6:30 p.m. at night they expect you to be flawless.

Cindy Sherman

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.

Dallas Roberts

I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'

Helmut Newton

I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I think it's very valid. But when established photographers, people in their forties, copy me and get a lot of money, well, I find that to be very stupid.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

What happens is that the people who are leaders in any field are copied. I mean, there's a reason why every wine newsletter tends to look like mine. They see someone who's been successful, so they sort of copy these same ideas.

Sarah MacLean

By the time I was 10 or 12, I had discovered the lure of the romance genre - and the dusty copy of 'The Thorn Birds' on my parents' bookshelf.

The defendant admits to spending about one month to perfect the copying process of the bills.

Susan Wojcicki

We prefer to work with the publisher for in-copyright material, ... would never show a full page without the right from a copyright holder.

Billy Corgan

Hey, Christian rock, if you want to be good, stop copying U2. U2 already did it. You know what I mean? There's a lot of U2-esque Christian rock.

Anatole France

When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it

Ken Thompson

More precisely stated, the problem is to write a source program that, when compiled and executed, will produce as output an exact copy of its source.

No downloading, printing or copying will be permitted.

Frankly speaking, we would prefer to have the original copy like everybody else,

Scott Phillips

From a legal perspective, ... the copy was not on file with the auditor for 10 days.

I happen to have a copy of the indictment in my hand right here and I think the indictment has some problems, ... instant punishment as the result of an indictment.

Henry Garza

I did go through a period of not knowing who I was, and just settling with being a Stevie Ray or Hendrix clone. You know what, though? I realized that all of them were in me. And those guys wouldn't want me to just copy them. They were sharing their gift with me.

Ursula Burns

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.