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But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation. ↗

— Oscar Robertson

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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

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Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone. ↗

— Dom DeLuise

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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it. ↗

— Francesco Guicciardini

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Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. ↗

— Woody Allen

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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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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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I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

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