#imitate

Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements. ↗

— Bruce Willis

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The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#forces #great #imitate #state #strength

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#immature #mature #poets #steal

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

#could #exactly #falling #falling in love #good

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

#boisterous #children #commerce #degrading #despotism

It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

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So it just goes to show you that it was always the Hells Angels first. They were the originals and all other clubs try and imitate what the Hells Angels have already done. ↗

— Chuck Zito

#always #angels #clubs #done #first

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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