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It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original. ~ Charles Darwin

My original idea was to produce and not make records myself. ~ T Bone Burnett

You are the architect of your own life. ~ Henry Thomas Hamblin

The world is filled to suffocating. Man has placed his token on every stone. Every word, every image, is leased and mortgaged. We know that a picture is but a space in which a variety of images, none of them original, blend and clash. ~ Sherrie Levine

The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions. ~ Walter Darby Bannard

The Civil War was about a lot of things, but the core of it was slavery. That was the original sin. ~ John Fund

I created a show called 'Crash' for Starz, which was their first original drama, and that was not a good experience. I had a great time working with the cast and crew, but it was a young network and an intrusive studio, and to be honest I didn't really enjoy the movie 'Crash.' ~ Glen Mazzara

Human laws pattern divine laws, but divine laws use only originals. ~ Mamie Smith

The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television. ~ Matt Groening

It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral and intellectual effects so profound that they appear to spring from her original nature. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

I felt a particular attachment, naturally, to the Superman character and really dug deep, but at the same time, I am a passionate fan, be it Star Wars, be it the entire Marvel catalog, be it the DC catalog, or the original thinking at Pixar. I'm a fan first, so I'm always curious to see the way people express themselves and how it's being done. ~ Joseph McGinty Nichol

The world is forever babbling of originality; but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world; the first man himself
who according to the Rabbins was also the first author
not being an original; the only original author being God. ~ Herman Melville

Hey, every once in awhile the secondary form works better than the original but it's certainly a rarity. ~ Jaime Hernandez

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit. ~ Mike Rutherford

Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd argument that your heart is a 'Batman' with a limited-edition silver bat-erang and therefore if it stays in its original packing it increases in value. ~ Amy Poehler

All our lives we are engaged in preserving our experiences and keeping them fresh by artificially sprinkling the water of memory over them. They have ceased to retain their original smell and fragrance. Do you call it life- this effort at the preservation of a phantom freshness in something that is withered and gone? ~ Vimala Thakar

To the lost man, to the pioneer penetrating a new country, to the naturalist who wishes to see the wild land at its wildest, the advice is always the same - follow a river. The river is the original forest highway. It is nature's own Wilderness Road. ~ Edwin Way Teale

The actual truth about Gad is it's one of the original 13 tribes of Israel, so you can actually trace my lineage back to, like, those guys who had, like, a hand in the Bible and have since become very famous from that. So I come from very famous lineage. Granted, they didn't have cameras back then, so none of them had TV shows. ~ Josh Gad

God makes it clear that his image bearers must live in dynamic communion with one another, thereby discovering and celebrating the good gift of one's own gender and that of the other. With a cross-shaped lens, we behold the beauty of man for woman and woman for man. None of us has ever lost that original design. No matter how broken we have become, we have never lost the potential to be good gifts for others! ~ Andrew Comiskey

Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Home is oneness, home is my original nature. It is right here, simply in what is. There is nowhere else I have to go, and nothing else I have to become. ~ Tony Parsons

I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology. ~ Nathan Parsons

A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion. ~ Benjamin Franklin

The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature). ~ Laozi

If anybody comes into my home and tries to hurt my kids, I've no problem shooting them, ~ Angelina Jolie

There's also a lot of skateboard stuff, because I was a skateboarder. Somewhere around here I have one of my original boards. ~ Ian MacKaye

No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts. ~ Daniel Keyes

It's very, very rare you find something really original and also because a lot of original stuff, most of the time has no chance, because it's so expensive to make something famous or put it in people's head that it's the one to see, it's like awareness has to be almost like at 80% or 90% if you make an expensive summer movie and that's very hard to do with anything an the White House naturally is in itself some sort of a trademark. ~ Roland Emmerich

Original sin is the proclivity to say "my will be done" instead of "thy will be done." ~ Peter Kreeft

To be fair to ourselves, in almost every original script, the timing is actually worked out down to the minute ~ Michael Loceff

Nature, and the original system that created us, must always remain somehow with us, the bedrock of our movements and actions. What is our duty? To live a life. ~ Rick Bass

The original concept of rock and roll ... was supposed to be this young angst with mistakes and all. Four or five guys get together, get angry and that's really how it starts, and i'ts all this energy. ~ Peter Frampton

Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch of grass, shrubbery and the occasional tree that exists purely to stop the original developer's plans from looking like a howling concrete wilderness. ~ Ben Aaronovitch

Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts. ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Stop comparing yourself to other people; you are an original. We are all different and it's okay. ~ Joyce Meyer

Because clearly the most amazing thing had happened: by some chance - no, the lover does not believe in chance, but destiny - destiny had arranged it so that the man and woman who had made the original whole, then somehow divided and separated by an angry God, had met up again, and now must reform the rightful, righteous whole. At once! ~ Fay Weldon

You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for? ~ Bernadette Peters

Obviously everybody knows that I'm an original songwriter and I got my band. And the guys in 'Sugar Money,' no matter what, are part of my family and they always got something to do with me, and I don't care if they just hang out with me. ~ Bo Bice

You have to be original. The people creating a buzz on YouTube are taking risks, and they're doing something different. I like it when 15 year-olds come on and tell me what to do rather than the other way around. ~ Simon Cowell

Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence. ~ Moses Mendelssohn

The first Star Wars movie was one of six original stories I had written in the form of two trilogies. After the success of Star Wars, I added another trilogy. So now there are nine stories. The original two trilogies were concieved of as six films of which the first film was number four. ~ George Lucas

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission. ~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Might his last glance behold the glorious ensign of the Republic still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in all their original lustre. ~ Noah Webster