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We didn't know about the rest of the world. We just knew the pictures that we saw on TV, and it was so different that we wanted to try to imitate that, to a certain extent. ↗

— Bob Livingston

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A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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We do not imitate, but are a model to others. ↗

— Pericles

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The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate. ↗

— Quintilian

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Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

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Do something wonderful, people may imitate it. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life. ↗

— Athanasius

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And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey. ↗

— Russell Banks

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