„Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.“
— James Baldwin (1924-1987) writer from the United States 1924 - 1987
„Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.“
— Judith Butler, "Imitation and Gender Insubordination" in Inside/Out (1991) edited by Diana Fuss
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„Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band they deserve the kind of success they're getting.“
— Freddie Mercury British singer, songwriter and record producer 1946 - 1991
As quoted in "Queen's Freddie Mercury Shopping For An Image In London" by Scott Cohen in Circus Magazine (April 1975).
„I have no problem with them imitating [me]. It's a compliment. Everybody has to start out looking up to someone. For me it was James Brown, Sammy Davis Jr., Jackie Wilson, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly.“
— Michael Jackson American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958 - 2009
On pop groups like N'Sync, as quoted in interview in TV Guide (1 November 2001)<!-- DEAD LINK http://www.accessinterviews.com/interviews/detail/michael-jackson/15570 interview -->
„When the medicine enters the body and stops the pain, the vibrations from the combined substances stop, and the various substances return to their original states, in which they emit their original vibrations. However, if these vibrations happen to damage other cell structures, then harmful side effects will result.“
— Masaru Emoto, The Hidden Messages in Water
„If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called ‘sex’ is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.“
— Judith Butler American philosopher and gender theorist 1956
"Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity" (1990) <!-- London, Routledge:25 -->
„“In literary translations, it is this very articulation of expressions that matters the most to bring home to the readers the full essence of the original text in question."“
— Suman Pokhrel Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist 1967
<span class="plainlinks"> Foreword, 'Tales of Transformation: English Translation of Tagore's Chitrangada and Chandalika', Lopamudra Banerjee, (2018). https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07DQPD8F4/</span>
„Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.“
— Aristotle Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy -384 - -322 avant J.-C.
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„She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty... but at the same time very deep, very smart.“
— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963
„There can be no whole without a thought which grasps it as a whole; and this grasping of what is before the mind as a whole can be effected only by a sort of voluntary halt in a kind of progressive movement of thought.“
— Gabriel Marcel French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist 1889 - 1973
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„Montserrat Caballé is sensational. She has that same kind of emotion as Aretha Franklin. The way she delivers a song is so very natural. It's a very different gift.“
— Freddie Mercury British singer, songwriter and record producer 1946 - 1991
"I am the Champion" by Nick Ferrari in The Sun (19 July 1985).
„All the truth of my position came flashing on me; and its disappointments, dangers, disgraces, consequences of all kinds, rushed in in such a multitude that I was borne down by them and had to struggle for every breath I drew.“
— Charles Dickens English writer and social critic and a Journalist 1812 - 1870
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„Do not be concerned with the faults of other persons. Do not see others' faults with a hateful mind. There is an old saying that if you stop seeing others' faults, then naturally seniors and venerated and juniors are revered. Do not imitate others' faults; just cultivate virtue. Buddha prohibited unwholesome actions, but did not tell us to hate those who practice unwholesome actions.“
— Dogen Japanese Zen buddhist teacher 1200 - 1253
„Understanding is a kind of ecstasy“
— Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science