Mimicking Quotes
24 quotes by 24 authors
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Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.
— Jane Rule
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Successful hunting, it could be said, is an act of terminal empathy: the kill depends on how successfully a hunter inserts himself into the umwelt…
— John Vaillant
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We often hear Islamists declare, 'We love death as much as you people in the west love life.' Well, if we're going to now celebrate…
— Irshad Manji
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But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking…
— Richie Benaud
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The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.
— Edward Dahlberg
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I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell, a mimicking nothingness.
— Sylvia Plath
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There is an authentic biology of hope. Belief and expectation - the key elements of hope - can block pain by releasing the brain's endorphins…
— Jerome Groopman
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There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a leaf, and the…
— Janine Benyus
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I loved the opportunity to just transform my voice. I loved the idea of doing impressions and mimicking and playing around with the spectrum of…
— Justin Long
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Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.
— Charlie Munger
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I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one solid scene doesn't…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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Mimicking people was something I did already.
— Jane Horrocks
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Limit or eliminate late-night computer and television viewing. A computer or TV screen may seem much dimmer than a light bulb, but these screens often…
— Andrew Weil
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Well", Fang said, mimicking a thick Southern drawl. "I must say its mighty nice of them Daimons to clean up after themselves when you kill…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the…
— Khalil Gibran
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[Jason] faltered when he looked at Leo, who was mimicking taking notes with an air pencil. “Go on, Professor Grace!†he said, wide-eyed. “I wanna…
— Rick Riordan
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Yeah, sometimes life really sucks," she says. "But you know what I'm holding on for?" I raise my eyebrows. She raises hers, too, mimicking me.…
— Veronica Roth
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When I started off, I always used to do parodies and impressions, mimicking people... and then institutions. You become aware that some institutions have their…
— Armando Iannucci
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When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always impersonating and mimicking people. I…
— Jason Mantzoukas
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My fighting style, if you will, is a combination of mimicking, cowboy films and boxing that I have done throughout my life.
— Dominic Purcell
Who Wrote These Mimicking Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 24 Mimicking Quotes as follows: