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My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It’s early work, derivative work.
Poland in the 1990s saw a surge of unrestrained, American-style capitalism. With millions of Poles living in the U.S.A., the defeat of communism led many to aim for a lifestyle derivative of Chicago or Detroit.
I wrote three mysteries and then a contemporary spy novel that was unbelievably derivative – completely based on ‘The Conversation,’ the movie with Gene Hackman. Amazingly, the character in the book looks exactly like… Gene Hackman.
I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative.
The Indian economy has declined because of the peculiar Indian ‘invention’ of that perfidious financial derivative called Participatory Notes, or PNs, otherwise known as the crony/crooked facilitator for black-money-based portfolio investment. No other country would think of such a derivative.
Our influences are who we are. It’s rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that’s the problem with the bands I’m always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don’t dilute their influences enough.
France has lived a long time – eight or nine centuries – and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.
I get to listen and enjoy music that is partially mine. Maybe influenced and guided. I created some simple outlines, but ultimately, I’m hearing a derivative work.
You have a lot of companies developing stuff that’s just derivative. If ‘The Voice’ is the No. 1 show on TV, they say, ‘Let’s do 100 different versions of ‘The Voice.’ The problem is, by the time you get to market, it’s already saturated, and everybody hates the format.
I can tell you, because I serve on so many nonprofit boards – where half of us are academics and half of us are from Wall Street – that there’s no CEO who understands at all a derivative. All they know is that somebody tells them in their organization, ‘We’ve got a wonderful profit center.’
To me, the Ennio Morricone kind of sound is a derivative of soul music.
At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather derivative intellectually; is there a dearth of really new ideas?
A lot of songs are derivative of each other.
I really enjoyed the sort of real crazy, eclectic layering stuff and how it all worked together. I could tell it was some of it was derivative of something. I could tell that certain things were being looped around and I just really enjoyed the way that it all came together.
A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that’s slightly different in order to get inspiration.
Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any ‘guru’ I had to fall back on my own, however derivative.
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
A credit derivative, at its core, is actually a very simple concept… The simplest way to think of a credit derivative is it is analogous to insurance against the risk of a credit default by your counterparty, your business counterpart.
France has lived a long time – eight or nine centuries – and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.
The whole market mechanism and its evolution is something that, I’m kind of of the Buffett School. You know, if I see a derivative, I run the other way.
I get to listen and enjoy music that is partially mine. Maybe influenced and guided. I created some simple outlines, but ultimately, I’m hearing a derivative work.
Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any ‘guru’ I had to fall back on my own, however derivative.
Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That’s quite a title to carry around.
I wrote three mysteries and then a contemporary spy novel that was unbelievably derivative – completely based on ‘The Conversation,’ the movie with Gene Hackman. Amazingly, the character in the book looks exactly like… Gene Hackman.
A futures contract is a derivative, but the futures exchange doesn’t call them ‘derivatives,’ they call them ‘futures.’
My career in academic research has not been involved with active management of securities. I’ve tried to understand risk-and-return relationships; also the pricing of derivative securities.
The whole market mechanism and its evolution is something that, I’m kind of of the Buffett School. You know, if I see a derivative, I run the other way.
Star Wars’ was derivative of ‘Buck Rogers’ and ‘Flash Gordon,’ wasn’t it?
Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That’s quite a title to carry around.
I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
In bitter almond oil, like in a great number of other substances that previously had been counted among the ‘aromatic compounds’ on behalf of their strong smell, a derivative of benzene is present. The special properties of benzene and its derivatives are caused by the typical arrangement of their carbon atoms.
Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.
The credit derivative market would never have evolved but for the preexistence of the derivative markets because so much of the technology was borrowed.
My career in academic research has not been involved with active management of securities. I’ve tried to understand risk-and-return relationships; also the pricing of derivative securities.
I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
