LeSean McCoy Quotes

With success always comes mimicry.

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

I had a date with a girl I called 'the parrot.' All she did was repeat everything I said. She never had an original thought of her own. Everything I liked, she liked. Everything I hated, she hated. It was annoying!

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

I'm not a mimic.

Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.

Mimicking people was something I did already.

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

The theme of counterfeits, of those that produce and sell them, has always been part of the culture of M.I.A. When I was contacted by Versace, it seemed a great idea to invert the circle. Versace's designs have always been copied; now it's Versace that copies the copies, so those that copy must copy the copies. So this will continue.

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

The politician who tries to ape his rival or predecessor is, almost by definition, a second rater, inferior to the real thing.

Sometimes it's flattering when people copy you, but sometimes it gets to a breaking point.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.

There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.

The companies that won't do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc.

Anybody with money can put on a KISS show, but they can't be KISS.

He imitated me so well that I couldn't stand myself any longer.

I'm easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes.

You're allowed to rip-off another score so close that it's ridiculous. In my opinion it's ridiculous, how closely one can just rip-off a score that happened a year or two earlier.

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

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

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.