Imitate Quotes

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. — James A. Baldwin
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to… — Simone de Beauvoir
Woman was given to man as an helpmeet. That complementary association is ideally portrayed in the eternal marriage of our first parents - Adam and… — Ezra Taft Benson
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. — Woody Allen
I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes… — Pedro Almodovar
We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we try to imitate that absolutely… — Colleen Dewhurst
Man is a megalomaniac among animals-if he sees mountains he will try to imitate them by pyramids, and if he sees some grand process like… — Jacques Loeb
People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on;… — Florence Nightingale
It is a very grave matter to be forced to imitate a people for whom you know-which is the price of your performance and survival-you… — James A. Baldwin
A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Don't try to imitate other coaches. Be your own person with your own style and do your own thing. — Hubie Brown
The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion. — Jean-Claude Killy
Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens. — E. O. Wilson
To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark. — Roland Barthes
It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more. — Horace Mann
Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him. — Walter Lippmann
Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same… — Friedrich Nietzsche
After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as the art of… — Leonardo da Vinci
What more delightsome than an infinite varietie of sweet smelling flowers? decking with sundry colours the greene mantle of the Earth, the universall Mother of… — William Lawson

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