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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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I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people. ↗

— Cecil Taylor

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Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female. ↗

— Susan Griffin

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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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The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion. ↗

— Jean-Claude Killy

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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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I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being. ↗

— Martha Graham

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I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it. ↗

— Charles II

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I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

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