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Imitating paper isn't the goal; the goal is surpassing paper. -- Mark Bernstein
(Imitating a Belarus citizen commenting on their national flag) Stupid National Anthem....Look at this flag; Two bears fighting over a pineapple. What kind of message does that send to the world? Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit -- Bill Bailey
One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. -- Frank Stella
A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself. -- Don Marquis
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? -- Charles Baudelaire
The more time we invest imitating others, the less that's available to discover and be ourselves. -- LZ Granderson
I've never really heard anybody imitating anything of mine the way they do with Edward Van Halen's stuff. -- Steve Vai
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings. -- Theodor Adorno
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
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
It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer. -- John Grisham
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
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
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
When I was very young, I started trying to sing like the great tenor Mario Lanza; my family used to play his records. We all learn best by imitating others. -- Andrea Bocelli
When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point. -- Ian MacKaye
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
Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes. -- Marquis de Sade
Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody. -- Bjork
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
For years I thought my assignment or the Church's assignment was to articulate the Gospel and nothing more. Now I believe that if we don't support the verbal expression of the Gospel with physical demonstration of compassion, we are not imitating Jesus. -- Max Lucado
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
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
The dog can only become what's in your bubble. The dog is imitating the energy that is in your bubble. You are the source, the feast of energy. If you feel anxious, the dog becomes anxious with you. If you become nervous, the dog wakes up nervous with you. -- Cesar Millan
When I was young in L.A. and I couldn't get into clubs or restaurants, I would call imitating celebrities and get a table, and it would work often. I was either Stallone or Mickey Rourke: 'This is Sly. I may be late, but my buddy Hank will be there early.' -- Hank Azaria
I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse. -- Edgar Wright
At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.' -- Lana Parrilla
I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero. -- Lamorne Morris
Now life is imitating art. -- Rakim
After two takes you're imitating yourself. -- Thelonious Monk
The true smoker abstains from imitating Vesuvius. -- Auguste-Marseille Barthelemy
They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots. -- David O. Selznick
You must understand the feeling of originating as opposed to imitating. -- Sailor Jerry
Nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising. -- David Ogilvy
There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him. -- Benjamin Franklin
It's not imitating anything; it has become a better version of itself. -- Brandon Sanderson
What works for the person you're imitating may not work for you. -- Jimmy Connors
I think when people talk about art imitating life, you're in real time. -- Mike Colter
Be creative. Men only learnt how to fly when they stopped imitating birds. -- Paulo Coelho
In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him. -- Lauren F. Winner
Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters. -- Keith Richards
So while you're imitating Al Capone, I'll be Nina Simone, And defacating on your microphone -- Lauryn Hill
I have been a racist since 1921. I don't know how they can think I'm imitating Hitler, -- Benito Mussolini
Those who attempt to evangelize the culture by imitating its forms must beware lest the culture evangelize them. -- Gene Veith
I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl. -- Billy Crystal
I watched a bowl of fruit on the table remain motionless. Just another example of life imitating art. -- Jarod Kintz
The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none. -- FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
When you use a dialect, you worry that the people you're imitating will think you're making fun of them. -- Jack Nicholson
Kids will use their own system at the stage that they are, they're not (learning merely by) imitating you. -- Jean Berko Gleason
The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none. -- FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
I have good pronunciation no matter what language I speak. Maybe it's because my specialties are rapping and imitating others -- G-Dragon
As to the rest, I am no more guilty of imitating 'real life' than'real life' is responsible for plagiarizing me. -- Vladimir Nabokov
People are in a hurry to magnify themselves by imitating what is popular- and too lazy to think of anything better. -- Thomas Merton
You have only one model, Jesus. Follow, follow, follow him, step by step, imitating him, sharing his life in every way. -- Charles de Foucauld
The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses. -- Ted Nelson
Unless we learn the lesson of self-appreciation and practice it, we shall spend our lives imitating other people and deprecating ourselves. -- Aida Overton Walker
Buddhism is all about finding your own way, not imitating the ways of others or even the ways of Buddha himself. -- Brad Warner
Art imitating life and life imitating art, and it's beyond the job - it will always be a marked period in my life. -- Wendell Pierce
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
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
It is as well not to have too great an admiration for your master's work. You will be in less danger of imitating him. -- Mary Cassatt
Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits. -- Minor White
When single you are,Roger said, imitating Yoda dispensing advice to Luke, get laid you can. When married you get, make love you do. -- Sean Kennedy
Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants. -- Jonathan Swift
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
American society in recent years has been imitating behavior patterns that have produced negative - and sometimes catastrophic - consequences in many other countries around the world. -- Thomas Sowell
Every writer knows that when you're imitating somebody - you know, you're sounding like Faulkner - you're doing pretty good, but your life in Hoboken isn't Faulkneresque. -- George Saunders
I was an only child and was obviously really bored, so I would entertain my parents by imitating cartoon voices like Scooby Doo, Boo Boo and others. -- Justin Timberlake
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
I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model. -- Shirin Ebadi
15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me dancing on stage, I'm imitating the mentally ill. -- Thom Yorke
I try to not listen to all the girls I admire musically - like Nina Simone - just so I don't find myself imitating them, even if it's subconsciously. -- Lou Doillon
I don't know what will become of this piece. Our brave critics will no doubt charge me with imitating Ravel's Bolero. Too bad - this is how I hear war. -- Dmitri Shostakovich
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
Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable. -- Berenice Abbott
I think being in a place where there is nothing happening is very inspiring because you have to make your own fun, you are not reliant on imitating any other bands. -- Kate Pierson
I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he or she follows his or her own culture. -- Rain
In philosophical inquiry, the human spirit, imitating the movement of the stars, must follow a curve which brings it back to its point of departure. To conclude is to close a circle. -- Charles Baudelaire
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
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
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
In the snobbery of science, each branch attempts to rise in the social scale by imitating the methods of the next higher science and by ignoring the methods and phenomena of the sciences beneath. -- Gilbert Newton Lewis
I do think that Hillary Clinton risks looking like she`s imitating Elizabeth Warren when she starts doing it. She`ll look like Elizabeth the Second. And nobody is electing anybody a second of anything. -- Chris Matthews
After some time passed in studying - and even imitating - the works of others, I would recommend the student to endeavour to be original, and to remember that originality should not be undiscovered plagiarism. -- Henry Peach Robinson
No matter that we could be beheaded for this, said EsaHeads are overrated.Yes, they are so unfashionable, said Miri, imitating an Aslandian accentThis spring, ladies of style are wearing their feathers in their necks. -- Shannon Hale
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

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