#imitator

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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Now, it is of course well known that Christ continually uses the expression 'imitators.' He never says that he asks for admirers, adoring admirers, adherents; and when he uses the expression 'follower' he always explains it in such a way that one perceives that 'imitators' is meant by it, that is not adherents of a teaching but imitators of a life.... ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

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... but now men who could work preferred to beg, and the artists forgot that their calling was noble and became imitators instead of creators, charging exorbitant sums for the rubbish they churned out with one eye closed. ↗

— Pauline Gedge

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Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free. ↗

— Cesar Chavez

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I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators. ↗

— Rudolph Valentino

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I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator. ↗

— Harrison Ford

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O imitators, you slavish herd! ↗

— Horace

#imitators #slavish #you

I get to study and I got to mimic and what I basically did was I stole from every person that I could steal from. I was an imitator. That's what I was. It was years before I could take all of these things that I loved about all of these different artists and put them together and find my voice. ↗

— Michael Buble

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