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• There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Character, Men, Differences

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.62, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.

  Charles Kuralt

  Falling In Love, Writing, Trying

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• The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor a hierarchy in art. Because these artists of the sixteenth century imitated human forms, they were not superior to the artists of the high periods of Egyptian, Chaldean, Indochinese, Roman, and Gothic art who interpreted and stylized form but did not imitate it.

  Fernand Leger

  Art, Progress, Faces

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• You must understand the feeling of originating as opposed to imitating.

  Sailor Jerry

  Feelings

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• When I look at what the world does and where people nowadays believe they can find happiness, I am not sure that that is true happiness. The happiness of these ordinary people seems to consist in slavishly imitating the majority, as if this were their only choice. And yet they all believe they are happy. I cannot decide whether that is happiness or not. Is there such a thing as happiness?

  Zhuangzi

  Happiness, Believe, People

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• The female covers her breasts, and then proceeds to redefine their shape with a brassiere. This sexual signaling device may be padded or inflatable, so that it not only reinstates the concealed shape, but also enlarges it, imitating in this way the breast swelling that occurs during sexual arousal.

  Desmond Morris

  Arousal, Female, Shapes

  Desmond Morris (1986). “The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal”, Crown Pub

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• I do like moving my legs a lot, like maybe moon walk-y things. I don't have like one move, because I try as much as I can. But I just love imitating impossible things that dancers do.

  Lucas Till

  Moving, Moon, Impossible Things

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Men, however, shouldn't despair. They are excellent at identifying and imitating animal sounds, which would have been a significant advantage for the ancient hunter. Sadly, that's not quite as much use today.

  Barbara Pease

  Animal, Men, Despair

  Allan Pease, Barbara Pease (2004). “Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps: How We're Different and What to Do About It”, p.31, Harmony

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• A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read, which usually means what the people around him are writing.

  Northrop Frye

  Writing, Mean, People

  Northrop Frye (2014). “The Northrop Frye Quote Book”, p.89, Dundurn

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• Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.

  Augusto Roa Bastos

  Men, Copying, Generations

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• If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Agency, Worry

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Boys, Actors, May

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• Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

  Steve Earle

  Song, Writing, Italian

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• I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

  Bil Keane

  Art, Taught, Homework

  "Comics: Meet the Artist" online cha, www.washingtonpost.com. March 1, 2002.

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• All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Fun, Vocabulary, People

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• When life is rosy, we may slide by with knowing about Jesus, with imitating him and quoting him and speaking of him. But only in suffering will we know Jesus.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Jesus, Knowing, Suffering

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• I have been a racist since 1921. I don't know how they can think I'm imitating Hitler.

  Benito Mussolini

  Thinking, Racist, Know How

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• The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Writing, Editing, Imitating Others

  Le Genie de Christianisme pt. 2, bk. 1, ch. 3 (1802)

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• I had started by imitating a parrot, which is unusual, in that a parrot is supposed to imitate you. By taking the initiative you allow the parrot no alternative but to be itself, which proves again that attack is often the best defence.

  Peter Ustinov

  Bird, Alternatives, Unusual

  Peter Ustinov (1978). “Dear Me”, Penguin Books

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• The secret of Greek Art is its imitation of nature even to the minutest details; whereas the secret of Indian Art is to represent the ideal. The energy of the Greek painter is spent in perhaps painting a piece of flesh, and he is so successful that a dog is deluded into taking it to be a real bit of meat and so goes to bite it. Now, what glory is there in merely imitating nature? Why not place an actual bit of flesh before the dog?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dog, Art, Real

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2219, Manonmani Publishers

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• I love it. When they stop imitating me then I'll start wondering where I'm going wrong. Every day when I sit down to play, I learn something new.

  Erroll Garner

  Play, New Day, Wonder

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• My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel Pepys, and Franklin Pierce Adams imitating Samuel Pepys. I was quite apt to throw in a "bless the mark" at any spot, and to begin a sentence with "Lord" comma.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Style, Franklin

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• My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.

  Toots Thielemans

  Sunday, Parent, Musician

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• In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

  Mircea Eliade

  Hero, Adventure, Men

  "Myths, Dreams and Mysteries". Book by Mircea Eliade translated by Philip Mairet (p. 23), 1967.

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• God is the original, master forgiver. Each time we grope our reluctant way through the minor miracle of forgiving, we are imitating his style. I am not at all sure that any of us would have had imagination enough to see the possibilities in this way to heal the wrongs of this life had he not done it first.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Imagination, Miracle

  Lewis B. Smedes, Jeff Crosby (2007). “Days of Grace Through the Year”, InterVarsity Press

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