All Quotes

'Orientalism' has successfully built my critical awareness to question and see the big picture of knowledge, perspective or idea from a Western point of view and always see things from different perspective.
‐‐ Okky Madasari

Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them.
‐‐ Jose Rizal

Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
‐‐ Zack Snyder

Original 'Dallas' fans, please come back, because it's the same show 20 years later - same drama.
‐‐ Josh Henderson

Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose.
‐‐ Peter Tork

'Original Sin' is, for me, a murder mystery with a huge cast that plays out on a grand stage.
‐‐ Jason Aaron

'Original Sin' is one of those ideas that has been circulating for several years at the Marvel retreats we have a couple times a year. We have all these ideas floating around for a bit before we figure out how to align them.
‐‐ Jason Aaron

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
‐‐ Reinhold Niebuhr

Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world.
‐‐ Charles Hodge

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
‐‐ Fran Lebowitz

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

Originalism is sort of subspecies of textualism. Textualism means you are governed by the text. That's the only thing that is relevant to your decision, not whether the outcome is desirable, not whether legislative history says this or that. But the text of the statute.
‐‐ Antonin Scalia

Originalism says that when you consult the text, you give it the meaning it had when it was adopted, not some later modern meaning.
‐‐ Antonin Scalia

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
‐‐ Georges Seurat

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
‐‐ James Stephens

Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.
‐‐ Jean Guitton

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.
‐‐ Anthony Storr

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle

Originality is dangerous.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

Originality is definitely missing from EDM. There are people looking for it and exploring but I feel it's so big now it is just getting milked. House music is losing all its melody as it becomes more about how dirty the drop is and how energetic it is. It loses touch with what music really is.
‐‐ Avicii

Originality is, for me, the most important quality in a script.
‐‐ Douglas Wood

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.
‐‐ George Henry Lewes

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
‐‐ Isaac Bashevis Singer

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
‐‐ Voltaire

Originality is really important.
‐‐ Jim Carrey

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
‐‐ Thomas W. Higginson

Originality is the art of concealing your source.
‐‐ Franklin P. Jones

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
‐‐ Nnamdi Azikiwe

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
‐‐ Laurence J. Peter

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.
‐‐ Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer's job.
‐‐ Tony Visconti

Originally a stylist took terrible dresses and did everything she could to make them wonderful. Now, you create an image. It's much more specialized.
‐‐ China Machado

Originally, back in 1992, DKNY started because I couldn't find a pair of jeans. I also wanted to dress my teenage daughter Gabby. So it was the perfect street wardrobe: jeans, anoraks, jumpsuits, boyfriend jackets, sweaters, skirts and dresses. Then DKNY grew into an entire lifestyle concept, including tailored clothes you wear to work.
‐‐ Donna Karan

Originally, Congress provided in 1793 that all foreign coins circulating in the United States be legal tender. Indeed, foreign coins have been estimated to form 80 percent of American domestic specie circulation in 1800.
‐‐ Murray Rothbard

Originally created to serve the poorest and sickest among us, the Medicaid program has grown dramatically but still doesn't include the kind of flexibility that states need to provide better health care for the poor and disadvantaged.
‐‐ Fred Upton

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.
‐‐ Carol Burnett

Originally I considered myself a singer.
‐‐ Molly Ringwald

Originally, I didn't play any New Order when I deejayed. I suppose it comes from being a little embarrassed or humble or whatever. But people were coming to see me because of New Order, so in the end, I had to realize that if they were using my name on the poster, then maybe I should play some of the music.
‐‐ Peter Hook

Originally I had planned to write just a couple of children's books and then, return the focus on adult literature. A funny thing happened along the way - I kept having new ideas, and then I looked up one day, and 30 years had passed!
‐‐ Nikki Grimes

Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.
‐‐ Danny Boyle

Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them.
‐‐ Billy Dee Williams

Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.
‐‐ Christian McKay

Originally, I think, I wanted to be an actor. But I got into broadcasting by accident, if you will, because I needed money to pay for my college education. I applied for a summer announcing job at a couple of radio stations.
‐‐ Alex Trebek

Originally, I thought English was more my home. But Spanish is so much more romantic. I've had to learn new phrases. I've had to learn to be more secure about singing in Spanish. But I'm working on it.
‐‐ La India

Originally, I thought, 'Gollum's such a fantastic character, why are you doing him CG? Surely you need to be able to humanise him as much as possible - he's so full of pathos and real emotion.'
‐‐ Andy Serkis

Originally, I thought Republican. Now I'm an equal opportunity politician-hater.
‐‐ Kenneth Fisher

Originally, I thought the story of the Alamo was all these men defending their liberty when they could have left, knowing they were going to die. That's without a doubt what appealed to me, the romance and the nobility. But, as in life, the more you dig the more you find out that things weren't quite like that.
‐‐ Phil Collins

Originally, I wanted a pop career and formed a girl-band 'Genie Queen' managed by Andy McClusky from 'Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark', but it didn't work out. My brother John is the talented singer and song-writer with 'The Razz,' while my other brother Sean is a footballer for Telford United.
‐‐ Abbey Clancy

Originally I wanted somewhere to set my short stories about the sort of people I recognise having grown up with. Carnbeg was staring me in the face all the time, only I had somehow failed to see that. Not seeing the wood for the trees, I suppose.
‐‐ Ronald Frame