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I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes. -- Jimi Hendrix
The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated. -- Johann Georg Hamann
Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life. -- Roger Moore
He imitated me so well that I couldn't stand myself any longer. -- Georges Pompidou
I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone. -- Dom DeLuise
I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments. -- Evan Parker
It's weird, like, my life has always imitated art, and my art has always imitated life. -- Sebastian Bach
Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired. -- Delphine de Girardin
No doubt these rocky islands have suggested the idea worked out in gardens, and they have been well imitated. -- Robert Fortune
As a traditionally risk-averse nation, India has rarely been at the forefront of innovation. Indian companies have mostly imitated others and became very good at it. -- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country. -- John Desmond Bernal
The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational. -- Cheryl James
I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor. -- Felix Dennis
If you have children, you know you're responsible for somebody. You realize you are being imitated; your belief systems and priorities have a direct influence on these children, who are like flowers in a garden. -- Madonna Ciccone
A deep, black grief gripped Robert Kennedy in the months following his brother's assassination. He lost weight, fell into melancholy silences, wore his brother's clothes, smoked the cigars his brother had liked, and imitated his mannerisms. -- Thurston Clarke
I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn't have confidence in who he was, but because he never imitated anybody. He was his own person. -- Patti Davis
If you listen to The Browns, it's a very pretty sound. It was sibling harmony, a sound that was very pleasing. I've never heard anybody that could come close to that particular sound. It couldn't be imitated. -- Jim Ed Brown
Polanski's 'Chinatown' is a film that I have purposefully and consciously imitated, but 'Vertigo' is one that has got into my bloodstream. Every time I reappraise things that I've done, the influence is there, time and time again. -- Allen Coulter
I don't know if it's good or bad, but when I first started writing I imitated the narrative thrust of a movie. And as I worked, I learned what you can do in fiction that you can't do in movies, and vice-versa. -- Kevin Wilson
I find myself unable to let go of the sense that human beings are somehow special, and that moment-to-moment human experience contains a certain unquantifiable essence. I still suspect there is something too quirky, too paradoxical, or too interpersonal to be imitated or re-created by machine life. -- Douglas Rushkoff
I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being. -- Martha Graham
Am I worthy in every respect of being imitated? -- David J. Schwartz
The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated -- Johann Georg Hamann
They've imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes -- Jimi Hendrix
I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone -- Dom DeLuise
I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it. -- Miguel de Cervantes
I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it. -- Miguel de Cervantes
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody. -- William James
Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form. -- Andre Malraux
A man never knows what a fool he is until he hears himself imitated by one. -- Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing. -- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired. -- Delphine de Girardin
The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none. -- FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none. -- FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock. -- Mark Twain
I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. -- William Shakespeare
Frank imitated the voice of Vitellius: 'They're wimps! Back in my day, we died all the time, and we liked it! -- Rick Riordan
Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself. -- Plutarch
What will be the crown of those who, humble within and humiliated without, have imitated the humility of our Savior in all its fullness! -- Bernadette Soubirous
The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable. -- Jess Row
The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country." -- John Desmond Bernal
Emotion should not be rendered by an excited trembling; it can neither be added on nor be imitated. It is the seed, the work is the flower. -- Georges Braque
Originality is a quality that cannot be imitated. The technique of the language, on the other hand, is something that belongs to all who can understand it. -- John French Sloan
For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them. -- Plato
I imagined that if the surface of the package imitated the colour and texture of the fruit skin, then the object would reproduce the feeling of the real skin. -- Naoto Fukasawa
Fashion is always silly, for, before it can spread far, it must be calculated for silly people; as examples of sense, wit, or ingenuity could be imitated only by a few. -- Horace Walpole
I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye. -- Ray Bradbury
If there is gossip to be garnered, garner it. If there are new dress styles to be imitated, imitate them. If there are hearts to be broken, break them. That's my girls. -- Gail Carriger
Never hesitate to imitate another writer - every person learning a craft or an art needs models. Eventually you'll find your own voice and will shed the skin of the writer you imitated. -- William Zinsser
A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the "buffone", or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. -- Ambrose Bierce

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