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• Bast crouched down and began making weird chittering noises. Uh-oh. She was imitating birds. I'd seen enough cats do this when they were stalking. Suddenly my own obituary flashed in my head: Carter Kane, 14, tragically died in Paris wen he was eaten by his sister's cat, Muffin.

  Rick Riordan

  Cat, Paris, Bird

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid”, p.183, Penguin UK

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• No matter that we could be beheaded for this,” said Esa. “Heads are overrated.” “Yes, they are so unfashionable,” said Miri, imitating an Aslandian accent. “This spring, ladies of style are wearing their feathers in their necks.

  Shannon Hale

  Spring, Style, Matter

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Princess Academy: Palace of Stone”, p.295, A&C Black

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• What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Art, Real, Essence

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• The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.

  Kenny Loggins

  Thinking, Opposites, Males

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

  Plutarch

  Enemy, Quality, Excellent

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• Yes, I think I have the best swing on the Tour. Why have scores comedown in the last ten years? Partly because they are imitating me.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Journey, Thinking

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• I've never really heard anybody imitating anything of mine the way they do with Edward Van Halen's stuff.

  Steve Vai

  Stuff, Way, Vans

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.

  Gore Vidal

  Men, Bird, Tree

  Gore Vidal (1987). “Armageddon?: essays 1983-1987”, Andre Deutsch Ltd

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• You should not have any special fondness for a particular weapon, or anything else, for that matter. Too much is the same as not enough. Without imitating anyone else, you should have as much weaponry as suits you.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Should Have, Suits You, Special

  Miyamoto Musashi, Musashi Miyamoto, Thomas F. Cleary (2005). “The Book of Five Rings”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

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• Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his repose, by the calmness of his figure, in which there was no trace of seeking, desiring, imitating, or striving, only light and peace

  Hermann Hesse

  Light, Two, Perfection

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• I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Reality, Compassion, Hair

  FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Oct 31, 2013

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• You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to achieve. Otherwise you're merely imitating yourself, going nowhere, because that's always easiest.

  John Berryman

  Writing, Trying, Technique

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• I know a man who is in love with my friend. He loves her absolutely. The only thing he wants in return is for her to love him.” Saiman arched his eyebrows, imitating me. “And?” "You’re the exact opposite of him. You lack the capacity to love, so you want to smother mine as well.

  Ilona Andrews

  Men, Opposites, Eyebrows

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.137, Penguin

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• We don't need to shift our responsibilities onto the shoulders of some deified Spiritual Superman, or sit around and wait for Fate to come knocking at the door. We simply need to believe in the power that's within us, and use it. When we do that, and stop imitating others and competing against them, things begin to work for us.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Spiritual, Believe, Responsibility

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.

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• Across from me at the next row of supports Jim raised his hand and touched his fingers to his thumb a few times, imitating an opening and closing beak. Negotiate. He wanted me to engage a lunatic who had already turned four people into smoking meat. Okay. I could do that. “Alright, Jeremy!” I yelled into the night. “Give me the salamander and I won’t cut your head off!” Jim put his hand over his face and did some shaking. I thought he was laughing, but I couldn’t be sure.

  Ilona Andrews

  Cutting, Night, Hands

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.16, Penguin

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• Half an hour later, each of them had been given a complicated circular chart, and was attempting to fill in the position of the planets at their moment of birth. It was dull work, requiring much consultation of timetables and calculation of angles. “I’ve got two Neptunes here,” said Harry after a while, frowning down at his piece of parchment, “that can’t be right, can it?” “Aaaaah,” said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawney’s mystical whisper, “when two Neptunes appear in the sky, it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry . . .

  J. K. Rowling

  Sky, Two, Glasses

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• One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. I can't stress enough how important it is, if you are interested at all in painting, to look and to look a great deal at painting. There is no other way to find out about painting.

  Frank Stella

  Stress, Important, Looks

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• The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line.

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser

  Creativity, Creative, Lines

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• Ignorance, which is contented and clumsy, will produce what is imperfect, but not offensive. But ignorance dis contented and dexterous, learning what it cannot understand, and imitating what it cannot enjoy, produces the most loathsome forms of manufacture that can disgrace or mislead humanity.

  John Ruskin

  Ignorance, Humanity, Imperfect

  John Ruskin (1873). “The Eagle's Nest: Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford in Lent Term, 1872”, p.80

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• They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.

  David O. Selznick

  Ideas, Stealing, Shots

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• I have good pronunciation no matter what language I speak. Maybe it’s because my specialties are rapping and imitating others

  G-Dragon

  Rap, Imitating Others, Matter

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• Those who attempt to evangelize the culture by imitating its forms must beware lest the culture evangelize them.

  Gene Veith

  Religion, Culture, Form

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• The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and everything of cruelty to animals is a violation of moral duty

  Thomas Paine

  Revenge, Animal, Men

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.246, Ravenio Books

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• In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him.

  Lauren F. Winner

  Giving, Sabbath, Observing

  Lauren F. Winner (2007). “Mudhouse Sabbath: An Invitation to a Life of Spiritual Discipline”, p.11, Paraclete Press

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• You have only one model, Jesus. Follow, follow, follow him, step by step, imitating him, sharing his life in every way.

  Charles de Foucauld

  Jesus, Way, Steps

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