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• My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.

  Charles Edison

  Government, Goal, Flow

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• I've worked with some very good directors and some very bad ones. I learned a great deal from both. From the bad, untalented people, you learn what not to do. And when you work with very highly talented people, you want to emulate them.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  People, Directors, Want

  "Tommy Lee Jones and Hilary Swank Talk THE HOMESMAN, the Shorthand They Developed on Set, Jones as a Director, Swank’s Singing and More". Interview, collider.com. November 13, 2014.

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• No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can hope to emulate, a supreme phrase being a bit of luck that only happens now and then. And inasmuch as the condiments and secret travail of human nature are always the same, and that certain psychological moments must ever and ever recur, what more tempting than to pin down such a moment with the blow of a borrowed hammer?

  Ethel Smyth

  Artist, Blow, Doubt

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• There are movies that I love tonally, that I would love to emulate. Anything from Wes Anderson or the Coen brothers is right in my wheelhouse, as something that I would aspire to. I love that kind of indie, fun, colorful, funny, sweet, heartfelt but dark film.

  Sam Huntington

  Sweet, Brother, Fun

  "Sam Huntington Exclusive Interview BEING HUMAN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 13, 2011.

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• Calling something exotic emphasizes its distance from the reader. We don't refer to things as exotic if we think of them as ordinary. We call something exotic if it's so different that we see no way to emulate it or understand how it came to be. We call someone exotic if we aren't especially interested in viewing them as people - just as objects representing their culture.

  N.K. Jemisin

  Distance, Thinking, People

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• The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates.

  David Mamet

  Fashion, Class, Tragedy

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

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• The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

  Winston Churchill

  Copying, Ruins, Method

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• A lot of people say I tried to emulate Tupac, but when I look back at my career, we're very different artists. I took pages out of Pac's book, of course, and lots of other rappers - Biggie, Nas - of course you take pages out of those books, but you eventually make it your own thing. And I think I did a good job of that.

  Ja Rule

  Jobs, Book, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.

  P. C. Cast

  Real, Hero, Successful

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• I could sum it up in one thing: A guy has to be what he is. He's got to coach and have a philosophy based on his own personality. You see too many coaches trying to imitate other coaches, trying to be someone else. It's all right to emulate the qualities of good coaches but I don't think you should imitate. You've got to be yourself.

  LaVell Edwards

  Sports, Being Yourself, Philosophy

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• It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.

  Kenneth Williams

  Writing, Hypnosis, Coward

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Just as eagles soar through the vast expanse of the sky without meeting any obstructions, needing only minimal effort to maintain their flight, so advanced meditators concentrating on emptiness can meditate on emptiness for a long time with little effort. Their minds soar through space-like emptiness, undistracted by any other phenomenon. When we meditate on emptiness we should try to emulate these meditators.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Eagles, Sky, Space

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra”, p.98, Tharpa Publications US

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• He came to give His life for the sins of mankind, not to take life. Mohammad on the contrary was a warrior and killed many innocent people. True followers of Christ emulate Christ-true followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.

  Franklin Graham

  Warrior, People, Giving

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• True followers of Christ emulate Christ—true followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.

  Franklin Graham

  Followers, Christ

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• When I was a kid, I remember trying to emulate Stevie Wonder's sound, and Donny Hathaway's sound. It's just part of who I am - I'm just a soulful kind of dude.

  Elliott Yamin

  Kids, Who I Am, Trying

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• All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Poetry, Return

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• It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that.

  George Michael

  Couple, Aquariums, Essentials

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• As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate.

  John McCain

  Dream, Honesty, Standards

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• My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.

  Jandy Nelson

  Sad, Grief, Loss

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.163, Penguin

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• Let me begin now, this very night, to emulate Christ. Cast off forever will be the old self and with it defeat, despair, doubt, and disbelief. To a newness of life I come--a life of faith, hope courage, and joy. No task looms too large; no responsibility too heavy; no duty is a burden. All things become possible.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Responsibility, Night, Self

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• What is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the rich or that they in any way want to emulate their characters which, in fact, they despise. Both the poor and the rich have always found precisely the same grounds on which to complain about each other. Each feels the other has no manners, is disloyal, corrupt, insensitive - and has never put in an honest day's work in its life.

  Elaine Dundy

  Character, Doe, Complaining

  "Elvis and Gladys". Book by Elaine Dundy, 1985.

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• It's my firm conclusion that human meaning comes from humans, not from a supernatural source. After we die, our hopes for an afterlife reside in the social networks that we influenced while we were alive. If we influence people in a positive way -- even if our social web is only as big as our nuclear family -- others will want to emulate us and pass on our ideas, manners, and lifestyle to future generations. This is more than enough motivation for me to do good things in my life and teach my children to do the same.

  Greg Graffin

  Children, Motivation, Ideas

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• At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to oppose you.

  Sun Tzu

  Running, Art Of War, Giving

  Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors

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• Since Khomeini's death, the popular appeal of an Islamic state - and of fundamentalism - has surely dimmed. Thinkers still debate and warriors kill, but no country seems prepared to emulate Iran. Perhaps revolutions happen only under majestic leaders, and no one like Khomeini has since appeared.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Country, Islamic, Warrior

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• I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emulate. You'd just be ripping them off.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Genius

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