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I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I get to study and I got to mimic and what I basically did was I stole from every person that I could steal from. I was an imitator. That's what I was. It was years before I could take all of these things that I loved about all of these different artists and put them together and find my voice. -- Michael Buble
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators. -- Friedrich Schiller
an imitator is always a poor example. -- Marion Davies
The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle. -- John Dryden
Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. -- Jean de La Fontaine
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves. -- William James
I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators. -- Rudolph Valentino
I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator. -- Harrison Ford
Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free. -- Cesar Chavez
I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't. -- Marilyn vos Savant
I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin' like myself. -- Hank Williams
Anytime something becomes a success in this way you always get imitators. I'm an imitator of the guys I love. I imitate people like Frank Miller, who is a huge inspiration to me. -- Mark Millar
To be a sannyasin means you will be allowing freedom to the children, you will not impose anything on them, you will not impose your ideas; you will NOT like them to become imitators. Sannyas is just symbolic of a great freedom! -- Rajneesh
Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of foreign models; and it is therefore the sort of composition in which they have never been excelled. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is impossible to me as an imitator of Christ, becomes perfectly natural as a participant of Christ. It is Only when Christ nullifies the force of my inherent "self' life," and communicates to me a Divine life, that Christian living in its true sense, is at all possible for me. -- F. Huegel
I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy. But, I wanted to put a somewhat different spin on it. The whole trope of absolute good versus absolute evil, which was wonderful in the hands of J.R. Tolkien, became cliche and rote in the hands of the many Tolkien imitators that followed. -- George R. R. Martin
It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians. In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living. -- Adyashanti
The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language - either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors. -- Aristotle
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering. -- Soren Kierkegaard
An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation. -- Elbert Hubbard
Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who was that fatman buried in your place? Just another imitator, plastic surgeons did his face. -- Loudon Wainwright III
Find comfort in the knowledge that no imitator ever comes off as well as the original. -- Ann Landers
Bring individuality into things, do not just be an imitator. To imitate is to miss life. -- Rajneesh
In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature. -- George Cowan
Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator. -- Paul Cezanne
The only known technique to an imitator is to steal and rephrase, then with a mischievous smile, he said, i did it, without any confidence and prove. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
The only known technique to an imitator is to steal and rephrase, then with a mischievous smile, he said, "i did it", without any confidence and prove. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
How grimy did God get when He reached down to clean you up? How grimy are you willing to get in order to be an 'imitator of God'? -- Max Lucado
Chaplin made me laugh and cry without saying a word. I had an instinct. I was touched by the soul of Chaplin - Mime is not an imitator but a creator. -- Marcel Marceau
The imitator treads a beaten walk, and with all his diligence can only find a few flowers or branches untouched by his predecessor, the refuse of contempt, or the omissions of negligence. -- Samuel Johnson
The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls. -- Carl Maria von Weber

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