Imitation Quotes
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By this point I was eager to emulate Guleed and merge unobtrusively with the imitation French farmhouse fittet cupboard and counter unit behind me.
Ben Aaronovitch
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Imitation is criticism.
William Blake
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The worst acting is about imitation.
Paul Guilfoyle
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This imitation Elvis may not be the king, but baby I'm the next best thing.
Jimmy Buffett
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Who has no own conviction dissipates himself in the imitation of others.
Ernst Moritz Arndt
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I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up.
Gene Ween
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Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.
Sun Ra
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I have formulated my own directing style in my head, proceeding without any unnecessary imitation of others.
Yasujirō Ozu
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Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.
Michael Berryman
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News at Work is a vivid, inside look at the collision of print journalism and electronic media. Based on close access to the leading news organizations in Buenos Aires, Boczkowski documents how contemporary journalism is caught in the grip of emulation; this spiral of imitation exacerbated further by global news media and their intensifying homogenization. The portrait of this transformation of the news is both fascinating and deeply worrying, and is guaranteed to provoke debate.
Walter W. Powell
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That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
Bradford Cox
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We stand for a use of color free from the imitation of things as colored objects. We stand for an aerial vision in which the material of color is expressed in all of the manifold possibilities our subjectivity can create.
Carlo Carra
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The Democratic party of the nation ain’t dead, though it’s been givin’ a lifelike imitation of a corpse for several years.
George W. Plunkitt
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He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
John Stuart Mill
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Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.
Mike Watt
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Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.
Peyton Manning
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Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation
William Shakespeare
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Imitation both unconscious and conscious is par excellence the educational method of the family. It is plain that a considerable part of the adaptation of living beings to their environment, i.e., of beings that are born plastic, is passed on from generation to generation through imitation. Were this not so, much if not all of the road traversed by one generation would have to be travelled by the next generation from the very beginning and without short-cuts. Consequently there would be little chance for the novel adaptation, the propitious individual variation, that constitutes progress.
Elsie Clews Parsons
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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
Walter Darby Bannard
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The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.
Erno Rubik
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I hold the imitation of colour to be the greatest difficulty of art.
El Greco
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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.
Northrop Frye
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Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.
Judith Butler
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The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.
Richard Lovelace