Quotes About Imitation

Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and that man is therefore less an individual (a subject) than an element in a mass.

Toda repetición es solo una imitación y toda imitación carece de valor.

Observação importante: imitação não quer dizer falta de autenticidade, porque o indivíduo não pode deixar de imitar o que já teve lugar; por muito sincero que seja, não é mais do que uma reincarnação; por muito verdadeiro que seja, não é mais do que uma resultante das sugestões e das injunções emanadas do poço do passado.

Imitation does not mean lack of authenticity, for the individual cannot do otherwise and imitate what has already happened; sincere as he may be, he is only a reincarnation; truthful as he may be, he is only a sum of the suggestions and requirements that emanate from the well of the pass.

Imitatie betekent geen gebrek aan authenticiteit, want het individu kan niet anders dan imiteren wat al heeft plaats gevonden; hoe oprecht hij ook is, hij is slechts een resultante van de suggesities en aanmaningen die voortkomen uit de put van het verleden.

I loved Molly. Or at least I told myself I did. Or, if what I felt for her was not love, it was at least a plausible imitation, a convincing substitute.

A knockoff is not as easy to spot when it comes to love.

I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated your lover knows you can't.

Every age has its peculiar folly; some scheme, project, or phantasy into which it plunges, spurred on either by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the mere force of imitation. Failing in these, it has some madness, to which it is goaded by political or religious causes, or both combined.

The Cardiff Giant that most Americans have seen is this copy. Barnum exhibited a fake fake.

Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things.

When something get hot, everybody want to jump on the bandwagon and act like they created it.

Even if I were to try to imitate Kurosawa I know that it's absolutely impossible. That era of film was just something else, including the actors. Everything about that era was on a completely different level.

There's always a Justin Bieber. Ever since I've been around, there's always been one of him.

I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations.

Everyone wants to be like Kim even if they aren't gorgeous. They will try in their own version to dress like her.

My kitchen is an imitation, really, of my mum's, except for the big American fridge.

Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.

Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their action into violence, their actors to dolls, and their truth-telling to sentimental platitude.

Get your own fashion adviser," Barrons growled. "Maybe I decided I like your style." "Maybe you thought if you were more like me, she'd fuck you, too.

He's the ultimate plagiarist, copying what others do if it proves successful and putting his own spin on it, which really pisses me off, because it`s far more difficult to come up with the original idea than steal someone else`s and spruce it up a bit.

I said breathe. Not do a fish-out-of-water imitation.

The international regime of intellectual property rights has significantly shaped the control and distribution of knowledge for hundreds of years. It's a story that began innocently enough in the fifteenth century, when Venice started awarding its famed glass-blowers 10-year patents to protect their novel creations from imitators. Show us how you made it, promised the law, and no one is permitted to copy you for a decade.

the medical journal The Lancet explained the process by which the dreadfuls could foster violence. People of a lower evolutionary type, the journal said, had an ape-like tendency to imitation. If exposed to stories of suicide or murder, degenerate individuals might be impelled to act them out.