Quotes About Mimicry

Christlike in my behavior Like any good believer I imitate the Savior And cultivate a beaver

Creation is the miniature of creation

Imitation is absolutely crucial for childrearing. You do not want your children imitating you unless you are imitating God.

in order to teach a robot to imitate even a limited range of human behavior, you would have to, in a sense, teach it everything about the world.

Faults are soon copied.

Now life is imitating art.

you have to remember that even the humble lizard uses camouflage to save his skin. The little anole can change his color when necessary.

I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.

They will never be human. But it occurred to me that who the Others choose as a template determines if they mimic the best or the worst of what it means to be human.

They're never human, Lieutenant. They just mimic us to get what they want.

There's a long history of artificial intelligence programs that try to mimic what the brain is doing, but they've all fallen short.

People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.

Dios me creó para que yo lo imitara de noche. Él es el Sol, yo soy la Luna. Mi luz flota sobre todo lo que es fútil o ha terminado, fuego fatuo, márgenes de río, pantanos y sombras.

You can learn any accent you want. It's a fascinating thing.

From the age of six I used to watch every England team and when I was messing around in the backyard I would pretend to be whoever was scoring runs at the time, whether they were a right or left-hander. I just wanted to be them and do that.

'The Count' wasn't a real stretch. I was doing pretty generic Bela Lugosi bad vampire on purpose. It was supposed to be lame. I didn't put fangs on; it was a guy who was just going through the motions. I drew on the widow's peak with eyebrow pencil and wore a turtleneck, not a tux.

I learned by watching my favorite shows. I would just rewind and say the words back, until they sounded right to me. I never studied the American accent, in terms of getting a teacher or taking phonetics classes. I've always been a good mimic. It really wasn't that hard for me.

I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

Anyway, if he can't figure it out himself, why can't he just watch you? Why can't he just do what you do? Why can't he just copy you? Or copy me? If he did for me what I do for him, we'd get along great!

Connolly had performed a makeover in reverse, to look like Bennie.

He began saying chugga chugga chugga when he walked down the hall of the apartment. He was practicing being trained.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Zoe tried to sound like an older sister.