#imitate

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

— James A. Baldwin

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There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original. ↗

— Judith Butler

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Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn't find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on the radio didn't bear any resemblance to what I wanted to hear on the guitar. ↗

— Leo Kottke

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I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments. ↗

— Evan Parker

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He imitated me so well that I couldn't stand myself any longer. ↗

— Georges Pompidou

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The parrot's so funny. He imitates me and I don't even realize he's doing it. I'm walking around the house talking to myself and whistling and the next day he's said something I've said... it's scary you know? ↗

— Mick Ralphs

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I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people. ↗

— Cecil Taylor

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Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female. ↗

— Susan Griffin

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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

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I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

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