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The whole of reality was just a vain attempt to imitate the world of words. — Amos Oz

Life doesn't imitate art ... it is art! — John Lennon

Bring individuality into things, do not just be an imitator. To imitate is to miss life. — Rajneesh

In literature imitations do not imitate. — Mark Twain

Insist on your life, never imitate ... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand — Dan Brown

The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate. — Eric Hoffer

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. — Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand

If one keeps on adapting, their contribution will be limited. They
can only imitate but never create. — Ravindra Shukla

Impersonators, with time give up hope, but great leaders imitate with discretion. — S. E. Entsua-Mensah

Goddess does not want us to imitate some ideal of perfection, but to be our true selves. — Deborah Harkness

I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people. — Anne Sweeney

God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh. — Oswald Chambers

The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms. — Clement Greenberg

Let us contemplate the humility of the Son of God born into poverty. Let us imitate him by sharing with those who are weak. — Pope Francis

I'm one of those guys a lot of people watch, imitate, and then make it seem like they were the ones who did it first. — Jermaine Dupri

Harmelody allows everybody to be an individual who does not have to imitate anybody else. — Ornette Coleman

Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. — Christian Slater

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will. — Allan Sherman

Bad poets imitate, good poets steal. — T. S. Eliot

What do you think? she asked, pouting her lips attempting to imitate a model . . . or a duck. I wasn't sure which. — Jamie McGuire

You may imitate, but never counterfeit. — Honore De Balzac

It's always a low when life beings to imitate an old Chevy Chase movie. — David Levithan

Imitate, and what is personal will eventually come despite yourself. — Jean Cocteau

It is impossible to imitate Voltaire without being Voltaire. — Frederick The Great

The snake charmer should not touch the serpents before his child's eyes, knowing that the child will try to imitate him in all things. — Eileen Goudge

Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead. — Robert Rodriguez

He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea. — Horace

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good poems. — Edward Hirsch

We must know Jesus before we can imitate Him. — Charles M. Sheldon

I didn't just grow up in one environment, so it was easy for me, as a child, just to imitate and just be all these different people. — Clifton Collins Jr.

Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him. — Walter Lippmann

If you can't imitate him, don't copy him. — Yogi Berra

People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself. — Harrison Ford

A woman's beauty should not imitate art. — Lionel Suggs

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. — James Baldwin

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to BE art. — Carrie Fisher

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. — Woody Allen

That's the thing about parents, I'm beginning to realize. You don't have to see them all that much to imitate them. — Leigh Newman

I was kind of an obnoxious kid. I would imitate Celine Dion. I would jump around and belt to the rafters and do the accent and everything. — Kimiko Glenn

Study the habits of the people you want to be like and then imitate them. If they are succeeding, they must be doing something right. — Dave Ramsey

To look, to record, to inscribe, to reproduce, to imitate, to reveal, to imagine are for me the seven keys of photographic imagination. — Jean-Francois Chevrier

More money has been lost trying to imitate 'Rocky' than 'Rocky' has made. — Irwin Winkler

Tis hard to find a whole age to imitate, or what century to propose for example. — Thomas Browne

My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man, I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band. — Dan Fogelberg

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. — Salvador Dali

When you build a career, you should never imitate anybody. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Its best to live imperfectly happy living a life of your own choice than to imitate someone else and be a plastic doll. — Upasana Banerjee

When you imitate the enemy's tactics, you take on his liabilities. — Jawaharlal Nehru

We must learn from Mary, and we must imitate her unconditional readiness to receive Christ in her life. — Pope Francis

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate. — Quintilian

Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion. — Cyprian

Men for the most part follow in the footsteps and imitate the actions of others ... — Niccolo Machiavelli

To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be itself. They call it the Afro Look. — Miriam Makeba

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it. — Albert Schweitzer

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller ... who always proportions his stay in any place. — Henry Fielding

Don't imitate, don't follow the others, or else you will lag behind them. — Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

You know what I hate the most? People that imitate owls. — Emo Philips

I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that. — Bernardo Bertolucci

Art does not imitate, but interpret. — Giuseppe Mazzini

The angels would become incarnate if they could, so that they might come to earth to imitate the example and virtues of the Son of God! — Vincent De Paul

Most people don't know why they're doing what they're doing. They imitate others, go with the flow, and follow paths without making their own. — Derek Sivers

Do something good and someone might imitate it. — Albert Schweitzer

Children know so little, they must learn quickly to imitate grown-ups whenever they feel unsure in a situation. — Francesca Marciano

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate. — Leon Krier

We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

You must then learn to reproduce, or imitate, the sounds which are different from your own way of speaking, and to do that you must drill. This — Robert Blumenfeld

Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens. — E. O. Wilson

If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge? — Richard Bach

Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad. — Morgan Brittany

Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have. — Andrew Vachss

Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions. — Charles Dickens

So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate. — Thomas B. Macaulay

The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them,.. — Stanley Fish

Making things more observable makes them easier to imitate, which makes them more likely to become popular. — Jonah Berger

If you imitate someone, you owe them a royalty check. If you emulate them, you don't. There's a big difference. Check your lawyer. — Stephen Colbert

I'm not trying to emulate or imitate. But I do believe that I embody that spirit from Robert Johnson on up. — CeeLo Green

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion. — Jean-Claude Killy

Everything which made Abraham Lincoln the loved and honored man he was, it is in the power of the humblest American boy to imitate. — New York Times

Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar. — Carlo Grante

A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Pornography does not inspire violence, but you can break a leg trying to imitate it. — Mason Cooley

The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God. — John Vianney

Our calling is to imitate Jesus in his willingness to suffer rather than to follow the ways of the powers. — Richard J. Mouw

It's sort of my fun to sing along with records and imitate people who are on the telephone that have different ways of speaking. — Meryl Streep

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years. — Stendhal

I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me. — Kevin Spacey

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. — Eric Hoffer

Imitate, assimilate, and innovate. — Clark Terry

Insist on yourself; never imitate. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I imitate everyone except myself. — Pablo Picasso

I'm representing myself only & no one can imitate me ever — Lawrence

Many imitate limits, not unlimited potentials. — Akiane Kramarik

Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself. — Edward Hirsch

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate. — Leslie Fiedler

Everything that can be created has already been done in creation. As human beings, we can only imitate, not create as such. — Jaggi Vasudev