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Tag Name "Imitator" (42)

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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Imitators? All right! Disciples if you like. But disciples be damned. It's not interesting.
Pablo Picasso
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis Que les imitateurs.]
Jean de La Fontaine
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Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle.
John Dryden
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
William James
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
Igor Stravinsky
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I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature and that man will be myself.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
John Irving
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Nirvana's success drew attention to a marketing demographic previously ignored by the mainstream, and inadvertently started a gold rush with advertising executives, product manufacturers, merchandise distributors, fashion coordinators, and rock imitators, the latter of whom have yet to equal the sincerity, power, and wit of Nirvana.
Kim Thayil
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Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.
Ludwig von Mises
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Most imitators attempt the inimitable.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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It is not the imitation that makes sons it is sonship that makes imitators.
Martin Luther
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Never imitate. The mind is an imitator, because imitation is very easy. To be someone is very difficult. To become someone is very easy - all that you need is to be a hypocrite, which is not much of a problem. Deep down you remain the same, but on the surface you go on painting yourself according to some image.
Rajneesh
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The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Find comfort in the knowledge that no imitator ever comes off as well as the original.
Ann Landers
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I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators.
Rudolph Valentino
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The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent of North America. They are decidedly the most servile imitators of the English it is possible to conceive.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.
Soren Kierkegaard
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The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.
Eric Hoffer
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Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of foreign models and it is therefore the sort of composition in which they have never been excelled.
Thomas B. Macaulay
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Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots.
Warren Buffett
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I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy. But, I wanted to put a somewhat different spin on it. The whole trope of absolute good versus absolute evil, which was wonderful in the hands of J.R. Tolkien, became cliche and rote in the hands of the many Tolkien imitators that followed.
George R. R. Martin
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You get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots.
Warren Buffett
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