Imitate Quotes

I do myself up kind of like a doll. I have a doll collection and I look at their outfits and kind of imitate them.
Taylor Momsen

Doll, Collection, Outfits

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

Life, Mind, Trying

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

I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.
Pedro Almodovar

Life, Movies, Fake

I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.
David Mitchell

Best, Beautiful, Living

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.
William Morris Hunt

Nature, Art, Her

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

Write, Desire, Reading

Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Christian Slater

Washington's entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate.
Henry Cabot Lodge

Mind, Honesty, Fashion

Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn't find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on the radio didn't bear any resemblance to what I wanted to hear on the guitar.
Leo Kottke

Time, Two, Find

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

Love, Fun, Mean

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

Nothing, Rest, Actions

But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.
Oscar Robertson

Bad, Stars, Situation

Don't imitate. Write what you know about, that has to be your goal.
Roman Coppola

I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
Bernardo Bertolucci

Two, Eyes, Fact

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

Great, Mother, Remember

The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that.
Mike Gordon

Others, Band, Jazz

He's a guy's guy, so it pretty much became like the impressions - don't imitate Sean Connery's voice, and things like that. We were all kind of doing it towards the end of the film, anyway, and he was cool with it.
Shane West

Cool, End, Pretty

Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.
Morgan Brittany

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.
Allan Sherman

Someone, Else, Might

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

Success, Hard, Whatever

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

Done, Try, Show

I'm one of those guys a lot of people watch, imitate, and then make it seem like they were the ones who did it first.
Jermaine Dupri

Guys, Seem, Watch

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

Women, Live, Culture

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

Different, Try, Wanted

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

Enough, Quite, Early

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.
Charles II

Virtue, Admired

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
Jean-Claude Killy

Best, Learn, Champion

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

Great, Strength, Fear

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