#imitate

I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful. ↗

— Cat Stevens

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I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone. ↗

— Dom DeLuise

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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

#bad #beyond #comes #goes #good

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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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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No doubt these rocky islands have suggested the idea worked out in gardens, and they have been well imitated. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#carver #easy #good #i #i think

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

#code #costume #differ #disguise #hard

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. ↗

— Ernst Fischer

#i #imitate #life #want

I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments. ↗

— Evan Parker

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