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Tag Name "Imitate" (272)

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I think people imitate actors - things they've seen in a movie or on TV, and before you know it, they're doing something with their face or their mouth. It's from some actor they think is cool. They might not even know they're doing it, which is kind of funny.
Tina Barney
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The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.
Adolf Hitler
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You can't just imitate and keep coming up with ideas. You have to be tapping into something that's pure and unconscious in yourself or you'll have no career.
Paul Banks
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Children know so little, they must learn quickly to imitate grown-ups whenever they feel unsure in a situation.
Francesca Marciano
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the wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that if he cannot reach their perfection, he may at least acquire something of its savour.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up.
Gustave Flaubert
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How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.
Stephen King
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We can not imitate great souls. However to study, analyse and imbibe the principles they teach and embody, is the path of progress.
Radhanath Swami
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I think movie makers in every country are looking for ideas. It's interactive. And sometimes we remake a lot of Hollywood films but we don't buy the rights, we just try to imitate those films.
Tony Leung Chiu Wai
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I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be itself. They call it the Afro Look.
Miriam Makeba
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The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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We were made for good works (cf. Phil. 1:11) to the glory and praise of our Maker, and to imitate God as far as might be.
Gregory of Nazianzus
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People imitate their leader. Lead by example.
Barbara Corcoran
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No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.
Stephen King
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I don't think you can recreate anything from the past. You can not do it. If you're going to go out and imitate a Motown sound, you can't do it, it's impossible because of the studios and players involved and the atmosphere.
Elton John
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Let us contemplate the humility of the Son of God born into poverty. Let us imitate him by sharing with those who are weak.
Pope Francis
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I do myself up kind of like a doll. I have a doll collection and I look at their outfits and kind of imitate them.
Taylor Momsen
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When someone writes something dazzlingly brilliant, people want to imitate it. The result is a lot of less-than-brilliant knock-offs. Elves, Dwarves, Goblin army, cursed ring, evil sorcerer. Tolkien did it. It rocked. Let's move on. Let's do something new.
Patrick Rothfuss
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I think I have a pretty good ear. I mean, even just starting with, like, Austin Powers, where I did young Robert Wagner. People were, like, How do you imitate Robert Wagner? What does he sound like? What does that even involve?.
Rob Lowe
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People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on but if anyone attempts the real imitation of Him, there are no bounds to the outcry with which the presumption of that person is condemned.
Florence Nightingale
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The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.
Edgar Degas
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The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create.
Emma Goldman
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Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer in for longer than an instant. Writing exhibits boldness. Writing restores power to exalt, unnerve, shock, and transform us. Writing does not imitate life, it anticipates life.
Jeanette Winterson
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