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The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.
Erno Rubik
Life
Imitation
Cube
Itself
Improvement
Even
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
Fred Allen
Imitation
Television
Sincerest
Sincerest Form
Form
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth
Art
Nature
Reality
Imitation
Supplement
Merely
Alongside
Metaphysical
Placed
Thereof
Conquest
I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up.
Gene Ween
Big
Everybody
Imitation
Him
Always
Up
Very
Cracks
Fan
Notorious
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Imitation
Something
Namely
Also
Opposite
Form
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
George Santayana
Fashion
Innovation
Imitation
Benefit
Something
Without
Produces
Reason
The best way of realising our high ideals is to show that we have an alternative in government that is credible, that is radical, and is electable - is neither a pale imitation of what the Tories offer nor is it the route to being a party of permanent protest rather than a party of government.
Gordon Brown
Government
Best
Party
Radical
Imitation
Our
Way
Tories
High
Neither
Best Way
Rather
Ideals
Alternative
Protest
Permanent
Nor
Offer
Than
Being
Realising
Show
Pale
Credible
Route
'The Imitation Game' is a celebration of Alan Turing's life and legacy, and Joan's final monologue is our eulogy. It's the thing we all wished we could have said to him.
Graham Moore
Life
Game
Final
Imitation
Our
Joan
Could
Wished
Him
Said
Celebration
Legacy
Eulogy
Alan
Thing
Monologue
I started a novel right before 'The Imitation Game,' so it's funny now, four years later, to be coming almost back to finishing it.
Graham Moore
Funny
Game
Before
Imitation
Back
Later
Finishing
Almost
Coming
Years
Novel
Now
Right
Four
Started
Often, I feel like a cheap imitation aesthetically looks better to me than the real, out-of-reach thing. It's amazing that brands create a whole illusion of exclusivity and luxury, and then you can go get the $5 version of a $30,000 thing and feel the same way but have a cool little secret.
Hunx
Me
You
Better
Amazing
Illusion
Luxury
Imitation
Secret
Way
Cheap
Feel
Exclusivity
Like
Looks
Real
Aesthetically
Go
Version
Than
Brands
Get
Same
Often
Little
Then
Create
Cool
Whole
Thing
As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.
Ira Sachs
Life
Art
Become
Imitation
Righteous
More
Gotten
Art Form
Form
Loving
Less
Film
Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.
James Fenton
Sense
Realistic
Imitation
Fine
Stems
Generous
Forgery
Done
Impulse
Cannot
Thing
Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.
John Lydon
Life
Art
Humanity
Imitation
Some
Should
When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking.
John Mayer
Me
You
Words
Imitation
Interview
Magic
Cheap
Talking
Am
Person
Just
Really
We are drowning in partisan rhetoric that is just true enough not to be a lie; in industry-sponsored research; in social media's imitation of human connection; in legalese and corporate double-speak.
Jon Lovett
Lie
Research
Enough
Imitation
Corporate
True
Drowning
True Enough
Partisan
Human
Just
Rhetoric
Social
Connection
Media
Some Mexicans go to Hollywood and lose career in Mexico because they play imitation. I don't want this to happen to me.
Katy Jurado
Me
Lose
Imitation
Some
Because
Go
Mexicans
Mexico
Want
Happen
Hollywood
Play
Career
The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.
Luise Rainer
Best
Good
World
Half
Imitation
Poor
Original
The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing
Imitation
True
False
For film fans to support 'The Imitation Game' means so much to me, the entire cast and film-making team.
Morten Tyldum
Me
Game
Fans
Imitation
Entire
Cast
Support
Much
Means
Team
Film
Film-Making
I love when people say 'Imitation Game' is such a crowd pleaser.
Morten Tyldum
Love
Game
People
Imitation
Pleaser
Say
People Say
Crowd
'The Imitation Game' is a very British film.
Morten Tyldum
Game
Imitation
Very
Film
British
Hated 'The Imitation Game.' Totally inaccurate. A gay man with a messy room? Don't buy it.
Nell Scovell
Buy
Gay
Game
Man
Imitation
Hated
Totally
Messy
Inaccurate
Room
The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.
Oliver Joseph Lodge
Knowledge
Matter
Living
Imitation
Inorganic
Kind
Properties
Instinctively
Felt
Without
Any
May
Expert
Which
Differentiate
Hardly
The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
Orhan Pamuk
Imitation
Tried
Always
Opponents
Process
Poor
Vilify
In raising children, we need to continuously keep in mind how we can best create the most favorable environment for their imitative behavior. Everything done in the past regarding imitation must become more and more conscious and more and more consciously connected with the future.
Rudolf Steiner
Future
Best
Behavior
Mind
Become
Past
Imitation
Imitative
Everything
Favorable
Must
More
More And More
Environment
Most
How
Continuously
Done
Children
Regarding
In The Past
Create
Connected
Keep
Conscious
Need
Raising
Raising Children
The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.
Samuel George Morton
Music
Great
Strong
Mechanic
Invention
Imitation
Negroes
Remarkably
Talent
Great Talent
Powers
Readily
Arts
Senses
Little
Acquire
Acute
External
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