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“Imitation is suicide”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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“Imitation is the most serious form of flattery”
Proverb Quotes |
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“Imitation is the sincerest flattery”
Charles Caleb Colton Quotes |
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“Imitation is at least 50 percent of the creative process”
Jamie Buckingham Quotes |
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“Imitation is the sincerest form of television.”
Fred Allen Quotes |
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“I used to make original snowmen, but it was time consuming, hard work. So I said, heck, this is crazy! Now I crank out crude imitations of what's already popular! It takes no time or thought, and most people don't care about the difference, anyway! And what good is originality if you can't crank it out?”
Bill Watterson Quotes |
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“He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that
is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always
falls short.
[It., L'imitazione del male supera sempre l'esempio; comme per il
contrario, l'imitazione del bene e sempre inferiore.]”
Franceso Guicciardini Quotes Source: Storia d' Italia
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“I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely
into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with
truth.
[Lat., Respicere exemplar vitae morumque jubebo
Doctum imitatorem, et veras hinc ducere voces.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Ars Poetica (CCCXVII)
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“He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on
artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his
name to a glassy sea.
[Lat., Pindarum quisquis studet aemulari,
Iule ceratis ope Daedalea
Nititur pennis, vitreo daturus
Nomina ponto.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Carmina (IV, 2, 1)
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“We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved.
[Lat., Dociles imitandis
Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]”
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) Quotes Source: Satires (XIV, 40)
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“Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
[Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis
Que les imitateurs.]”
Jean de La Fontaine Quotes Source: Clymene (v. 54)
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“An imitative creature is man; whoever is foremost, leads the
herd.
[Ger., Der Mensch ist ein nachahmendes Geschopf.
Und wer Vorderste ist, fuhrt die Heerde.]”
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Quotes Source: Wallenstein's Tod (III, 4, 9)
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“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that
life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Quotes Source: Wallenstein's Tod (III, 4, 9)
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“Imitation is suicide.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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“Imitation is the sincerest flattery.”
Charles Caleb Colton Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“No man ever yet became great by imitation.”
Dr Samuel Johnson Quotes |
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“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
Carl Jung Quotes |
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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”
Salvador Dali Quotes |
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“To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship”
Wendell Phillips Quotes |
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“Insist on yourself; never imitate.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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“Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.”
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller Quotes |
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“Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes |
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