Imitator Quotes

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I'm not a star. I'll never be a Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley or a Ray Charles. I'm just an imitator, man. I'm doing a… — Jaco Pastorius
Only Zorbas become Buddhas - and Buddha was never a monk, A monk is one who has never been a Zorba and has become enchanted… — Rajneesh
Nirvana's success drew attention to a marketing demographic previously ignored by the mainstream, and inadvertently started a gold rush with advertising executives, product manufacturers, merchandise… — Kim Thayil
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
I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators. — Rudolph Valentino
Tremble with awe, O men! The insults God suffered for the sake of our salvation you too must endure! God is slapped on the face… — Symeon the New Theologian
Who was that fatman buried in your place? Just another imitator, plastic surgeons did his face. — Loudon Wainwright III
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… — F. Huegel
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… — Thomas B. Macaulay
It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into… — Eric Hoffer
Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. — Jean de La Fontaine
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… — Samuel Johnson
Imitators? All right! Disciples if you like. But disciples be damned. It's not interesting. — Pablo Picasso
A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature... but he must be as necessarily an imitator of the… — Joshua Reynolds
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
Find comfort in the knowledge that no imitator ever comes off as well as the original. — Ann Landers
I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator. — Harrison Ford
Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her… — Camille Paglia
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… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators. — Friedrich Schiller

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