Mimicking Quotes

• Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.

  Charlie Munger

  Mean, Regression, Herds

  "Here's a 10 point plan to invest like Charlie Munger" by John Szramiak, www.businessinsider.com. October 26, 2016.

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• I loved the opportunity to just transform my voice. I loved the idea of doing impressions and mimicking and playing around with the spectrum of your own voice. That's what I enjoy most about doing voiceovers.

  Justin Long

  Opportunity, Ideas, Voice

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. April 7, 2010.

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• Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

  Mark Twain

  Children, Effort, Parent

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• There is an authentic biology of hope. Belief and expectation - the key elements of hope - can block pain by releasing the brain's endorphins and enkephalins, mimicking the effects of morphine.

  Jerome Groopman

  Pain, Block, Keys

  Jerome Groopman (2003). “The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness”, p.8, Random House

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• [Jason] faltered when he looked at Leo, who was mimicking taking notes with an air pencil. “Go on, Professor Grace!” he said, wide-eyed. “I wanna get an A on the test.

  Rick Riordan

  Air, Grace, Jason

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• The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Toady, Poetic, Poet

  Edward Dahlberg (1972). “The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth”, Not Avail

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• But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it.

  Richie Benaud

  Thinking, Voice, Annoyed

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

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• Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.

  Jane Rule

  Order, Ethics, Morality

  Jane Rule (2013). “Lesbian Images: Essays”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• Mimicking people was something I did already.

  Jane Horrocks

  People

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• Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

  Plato

  Wisdom, Philosophical, Lows

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• Does Fang have an off switch? Talon asked Vane.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Doe, Talons, Fangs

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Embrace”, p.269, Macmillan

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• I think it was something I inherited from my mother, who learned to do it. You know, I, like a baby duckling, was merely mimicking the survival traits that my mother possessed. And I came to learn very quickly that language was a powerful, powerful tool.

  Trevor Noah

  Mother, Baby, Powerful

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 16, 2016.

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• I’m a big fan of parrots - I think they’re fascinating creatures. Many of them live for longer than us humans and it's interesting to me the way they learn to mimic human voices even though they don't really comprehend what they're saying.

  Derren Brown

  Thinking, Voice, Interesting

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• I used to write songs that mimicked other songs that I would hear as a kid, cos I was 12 years old when I was writing those, right. And you hear a radio so all I'd write about was [sings] "hey girl, look at you", you know what I mean. I think that even doing that made it easier for me to write non-personal songs because, from a kid, I never wrote personal songs, they were always like mimicking. And now I'm just trying to understand my writing and where it's coming from.

  Justin Nozuka

  Girl, Song, Writing

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• Well", Fang said, mimicking a thick Southern drawl. "I must say its mighty nice of them Daimons to clean up after themselves when you kill them" He held his hands up to them. "Look Ma, no mess." "Does Fang have an off switch?" Talon asked Vane.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Nice, Southern Drawl, Hands

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• Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another ruler with trumpetings again. Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strong men are yet in the cradle. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Art, Strong, Farewell

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• We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. If we love nothing, we become nothing. Imitation is not a literal mimicking of Christ, rather it means becoming the image of the beloved, an image disclosed through transformation. This means we are to become vessels of God's compassionate love for others.

  Clare of Assisi

  Love, Christian, Mean

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• Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking my artistic idols.

  John Dyer Baizley

  Art, Idols, Important

  "BARONESS' John Dyer Baizley Interview About His Artwork Process". Interview with Michael Weigman, www.metalinjection.net. July 10, 2014.

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• Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?-In the end, you might merely be someone mimicking an actor ... Second question of conscience.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Actors, Might, Ends

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• What I found was an emotional consistency with him. The words, the scenes, the situations - I wasn't mimicking what I thought Branch Rickey's emotional reality would have been.

  Harrison Ford

  Reality, Emotional, Consistency

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• Try to sing exactly like an artist you hear, and then all of the sudden, you'll feel what it feels like if you're singing properly, depending on who you're mimicking.

  Laura Bell Bundy

  Artist, Singing, Trying

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• If you're very open to watching the world go by, with people's different tics, you absorb it all without realizing it and find ways to put something into your character. I'm not sure I'm always aware I'm mimicking someone.

  Emily Blunt

  Character, People, Different

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• In India, crossbreeding programs aimed at mimicking the milk yields of Western cows like the Jerseys and the Holsteins actually breed out the capacity of our animals to pull ploughs and pulley-cars. So, thanks to cross-breeding programs, we now have humpless cattle with no stamina.

  Vandana Shiva

  Animal, Yield, Car

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• The transformation is the most excruciating pain that you could possibly imagine, so you're mimicking this grand mal seizure while wearing crazy latex make-up. It's so bizarre. It's really out there. The most challenging part is the emotional and physical side of it.

  Sam Huntington

  Pain, Crazy, Emotional

  Source: collider.com

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• Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species, they really become so, lose their participation with their kind, and in mimicking the god dwindle into the brute.

  William Hazlitt

  Believe, Tyrants, Humanity

  William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”, p.181

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