#imitate

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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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 don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. ↗

— Ernst Fischer

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

— Georges Pompidou

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I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her. ↗

— Joan Sutherland

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To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice? ↗

— Stendhal

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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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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. ↗

— Salvador Dali

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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male. ↗