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You contain a trillion copies of a large, textual document written in a highly accurate, digital code, each copy as voluminous as a substantial book. I'm talking, of course, of the DNA in your cells.

It’s a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies, you are really getting some place.

When something original works, then everyone wants to copy it. But if you're trying to do something that no one's ever seen before it's frightening.

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.

I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said 'I'll just print another ten'.

I've always felt like a teacher. Whenever I've learned something important, my reaction has always been to tell everybody about it. I read a book, I buy 100 copies and I send them out.

I can only listen to what I'm working on, at the time. I can't listen to anything else because I don't want to copy it.

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.

If you copy then it is not self-expression.

Take notes. Everything is copy.

No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.

You can't copy style, you gotta create your own.

You must look at the processes of motion in the macrocosmos and microcosmos accurately, and copy them!

I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's.

You were born original don't die a copy

And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species - to an intelligent robot that can make evolved copies of itself.

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

To copy faults is want of sense.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.

Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs.

Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.

We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?

Jonah peered critically up at the Renaissance masterpiece. "Man, those copies don't due it justice. This one's the truth!" "Only a Janus," groaned Hamilton.

It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.

I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.

Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies.

How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.

Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one.

There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies?

I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned.

I think it'd be a real nightmare to put a record out and sell 20 million copies and then that's it.

Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.

I don't smoke, so they never sent me a copy

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

I can't get a relationship to last longer than it takes to make copies of their tapes.

There are more copies than originals among people.

Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.

I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.

My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.

No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers.

I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?

I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.

Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.

Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.

My goal is never to copy. Create a new style.

It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things.

A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in town, which is not. He may do you that honour.

History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.