I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.

Howard Dietz
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Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

Guy Debord
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If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.

Wilson Mizner
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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin
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Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.

Wilson Mizner
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Plagiarism is the capital crime in academics. There's no reason to believe that Princeton is a bastion of ethics.

John Barrie
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''Where do architects and designers get their ideas?'' The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?

Stephen Bayley
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The only 'ism' Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.

Dorothy Parker
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If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism. If you steal from two, it's research.

John Burke
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What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Dean Inge
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Self-plagiarism is style.

Alfred Hitchcock
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