#mimic

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering. ↗

— Jane Rule

#conserving #invented #language #learned #like

Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it. ↗

— Huston Smith

#comes #constitutes #continue #everything #extend

My favorite thing about L.A. is the sunny breezes that mimic the mindset of the energy in the people. ↗

— Angie Stone

#breezes #energy #favorite #mimic #mindset

And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them? ↗

— Mervyn Peake

#copy #cry #crying #despair #fall

A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted. ↗

— Matthew Barney

#anchor #angles #becomes #before #broadcast

There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler. ↗

— Art Carney

#i #mimic #whistler

It was more freeing, mainly because he's so free anyway. He just is in his performance. So to mimic someone doing a free performance, well, that's pretty freeing within itself. ↗

— Michael Welch

#because #doing #free #freeing #his

You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. ↗

— Hank Azaria

#actor #comedy #fan #growing #growing up

I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums. ↗

— Hank Azaria

#actor #albums #amused #carlin #comedy

When you mimic everyone, sometimes authority figures really don't appreciate it which is not an original story. And pretty much every comedian has some tale of that. ↗

— Hank Azaria

#authority #authority figures #comedian #every #everyone