Quotes About Imitation

The compulsion to imitate her is not something trivial that women choose freely to do to ourselves. It is something serious being done to us to safeguard political power. Seen in this light, it is inconceivable that women would not have to be compelled to grow thin at this point in our history.

Careful imitation could also explain why hand axes managed to stay so similar to each other for over a million years. If Homo erectus simply looked over old hand axes to guess how to make them, they would have accidentally introduced little variations to their craft. Over a few thousand years, those mismatches would have caused the hand ax to drift far away from its original shape.

The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.

El modo más eficaz de hacer inofensivos a los pobres es enseñarles a querer imitar a los ricos.

Il sistema più efficace per rendere inoffensivi i poveri è insegnare loro a imitare i ricchi.»

Le moyen le plus efficace de rendre les pauvres inoffensifs est de leur apprendre à vouloir imiter les riches.

The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich. That is the poison with which capitalism blinds

The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich. That is the poison with which capitalism blinds the—

Hated 'The Imitation Game.' Totally inaccurate. A gay man with a messy room? Don't buy it.

Some Mexicans go to Hollywood and lose career in Mexico because they play imitation. I don't want this to happen to me.

People are fascinated by robots because they're machines that can mimic life.

I have always been a good mimic.

Yes, we do mimic our parents in a lot of ways.

Human beings all mimic each other.

I love looking at machines that mimic human behavior.

I was probably a bit of a mimic when I was a kid, and I used to imitate people.

I can hear someone's voice once, and I can pretty much mimic them. Not to make fun, but I can do an impression of them pretty well.

I'm a good mimic.

Mimicking people was something I did already.

I think anyone can actually sing. It's the mindset. Singing is imitation.

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading subjugation on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it: for man is an imitative animal.

A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It "consents," so to speak, to [God's] creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree

but the one counsel he did give me is something that I will not easily forget: "There are many beautiful mystical books written by the Christians. You should read St. Augustine's Confessions, and The Imitation of Christ

It's what they've got planned for this whole town, a big Disneyland imitation of itself. Wholesome family fun, kiddies in the casinos, Go Fish with a table limit of ten cents, Pat Boone for a headliner, nonunion actors playing funny mafiosi, driving funny old-fashioned cars, making believe rub each other out, blam, blam, ha, ha, ha. LasfuckinVegasland.