Best Copycats Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Some personal traits one holds dear just can’t be co-opted.”

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Source: In Limbo

“CopyCats are Critics — they love enforcing rules, so they keep on doing things the way they’ve always been done. Creatives are Creators — not just consumers. Their original ideas bring wealth to nations!”

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Book:CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

Source: CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

“CopyCats are Followers — they’re often playing catch-up, and can find themselves trailing behind, losing out. Creatives are true Leaders — they are trailblazers, the sole source of human progress, which all of society benefits from!”

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Book:CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

Source: CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

“I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky. In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics: Plagiarize! Plagiarize! Let no one else's work evade your eyes! Remember why the good Lord made your eyes! So don't shade your eyes, But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize - Only be sure always to call it please 'research'." [Lobachevsky]”

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Author:Tom Lehrer

“CopyCats are Conformists — both conventional and predictable. They follow traditions and typically do what’s expected of them. Creatives are Contrarians — they’re not rude by default; they just know all traditions were once original; so why not make new ones?”

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Book:CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

Source: CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

“98% of us are full-time CopyCats — the rest are part-timers, picked on for being ‘slackers’.”

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Book:CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

Source: CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

“FRUITS AND NUTS Keep jumping around them like monkeys. The clones, Commercialized zombies, And the TV junkies. Keep throwing berries, Twigs, And nuts at them. Until they wake up To see what's up And figure out why We're laughing at 'em.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Strong brands are not built through shortcuts and copycats”

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Author:Bernard Kelvin Clive

“Stay true to yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Be yourself because an original is worth more than just a copy.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Well, when I was a young writer the people we read were Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Camus, Celine, Malraux. And to begin with, I was a bit of a copycat writer and very derivative and tried to write a novel using their voices, really.... I keep it out of print.”

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Author:Mordecai Richler

“I spent a lot of years working for Ralph Lauren, and he had so many copycats, from Tommy Hilfiger to Abercrombie & Fitch to J.Crew.”

Years Crew Lauren Copycats

Author:John Varvatos

“I am writing from the heart and having a fresh approach to things. We [Theocracy] are obviously not trying to musically re-invent the wheel here, and you can certainly hear our influences, but we also don't sound like a copycat of any one band.”

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Author:Matt Smith

“I have to be very original and have a strong musical voice. I don't want to be a copycat of anybody.”

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Author:Hiromi

“All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: "Nobody wants violence."”

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Author:Eli Roth

“I'm not really against a lot of things unless they are just pure exploitation and then they create their own copycat culture that comes from someone acting irresponsibly. That's dangerous when that happens.”

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Author:John Leguizamo

“Become a "learning organization". Shuck your arrogance - "if it isn't our idea, it can't be that good" - and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.”

Ifs Ideas Organization Determined Arrogance Copycats Learning Organization

Author:Tom Peters

“I think it worked two ways. One, a lot of people writing about the movie used that as shorthand and it could either be a good thing or they could use it to dismiss the movie like we were a copycat movie or something like that. It's very much its own story. It is a young woman in a post-apocalyptic society, but after that it's just a whole different kind of story and a different journey that she goes through.”

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Author:Neil Burger

“Because when I'm a copycat I'm never good! But when I'm Eric Thomas, I'm great! I'm great at what I do!”

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Author:Eric Thomas

“It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that our experience does not more closely resemble a macramé plant holder than it does a painting by Seurat. When it comes to art, life is the biggest copycat in the matter of the frame.”

Doe Art Matter Facts Life Is Painting Safe Assuming Plant Crafts Copycats Art Life

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats.”

Comedy Kings Copycats

Author:Paul Mooney

“In my mind, there are too many copycat web products out there that are doing the same thing.”

Mind Products Copycats

Author:Daymond John

“I'm such a copycat."I want to try and do this like the Donovan song 'Changes'," or "I want to do this bit from Van Morrison." I don't know how else to illustrate something, because I'm not a super-great musician. In that way, I'm more like the producer.”

Knows Way Want Trying Song Bits Know How Musician Producers Vans Great Musician Copycats

Author:Eleanor Friedberger

“One of the problems with studies that examine the effects of violent imagery is that they typically use mentally healthy psychology students. If you want to do a meaningful study, show movies like Body Double and Copycat to a group of sexual psychopaths the day before you release them.”

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Author:Park Dietz

“My worry is that Donald Trump may inspire copycats, also in Europe. That's why I hope Hillary Clinton wins.”

May Winning Worry Inspire Trump Europe Clinton Copycats

Author:Martin Schulz

“The last thing we wanted was a copycat. When we saw [Richie Faulkner] play, we thought, "We don't have to tell this guy anything. He's got it."”

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Author:Rob Halford

“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”

“Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.”

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Author:Jerry Saltz

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

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Author:Charles Mingus

“The trouble with most musicians today is that they are copycats. Of course you have to start out playing like someone else. You have a model, or a teacher, and you learn all that he can show you. But then you start playing for yourself. Show them that you're an individual. And I can count those who are doing that today on the fingers of one hand.”

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Author:Lester Young

“Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing is despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is akin to committing a copycat crime.”

Evil Fear Crime Habit Despair Boring Cynicism Bad Habits Obsessing Wallowing Copycats

Author:Rob Brezsny

“How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame — from a national media machine that rewards them with the wall-to-wall attention and sense of identity that they crave — while provoking others to try to make their mark? A dozen more killers? A hundred? More? How can we possibly even guess how many, given our nation's refusal to create an active national database of the mentally ill?”

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Author:Wayne LaPierre

“As long as you're being a copycat, you will never be the best copycat.”

Long Being The Best Copycats

Author:Eric Thomas

“Real people conceive originality then think, write but never read of others' posts to copy to follow and the copycats follow exactly the opposite direction i.e. read of others' posts, write but never think and conceive originality.”

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Author:Anuj

“The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.”

Book Easy Violence Effects Media Radio Comic Comic Book Serials Copycats Media Violence

Author:Hugh Mackay

“Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.”

Sound Labels Branded Copycats

Author:Randy Bachman

“Google and others truncate headlines at 70 characters. On the Manti Teo story, Deadspin's scoop fell down the Google search results, overtaken by copycat stories with simpler headlines. Deadspin's headline was 118 characters. Vital information - 'hoax' - was one of the words that was cut off.”

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Author:Nick Denton