“My greatest design tool personally is to look at what that genre is doing and make it 3–5% different. It’s in a way, trolling.”— Virgil Abloh, 2x4.org
“I love counterfeits, it’s the best feedback. It’s better than a great review in Vogue. If it’s working to a point where someone else can profit […] it’s really working.”— Virgil Abloh, 2x4.org
“Stan: Boo! Mr. Mackey: Who was that? That is not appropriate behavior, m'kay? Stan: [imitating Mr. Mackey's voice] I'm sorry Mr. Mackey, m'kay. Mr. Mackey: That's okay. Just don't let it happen again, m'kay. Kyle: [imitating Mr. Mackey's voice] We won't let it happen again Mr. Mackey, m'kay.”— Trey Parker, Kyle Broflovski, Matt Stone, imdb.com
“It’s better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else’s perfectly.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“No such thing as original thought. We are shadows of stars that burned before our time.”— Tom Hiddleston, twitter.com
“It was a delicious feeling, falling in love. I'd had so many luxuries in my life, and I thought I'd had a taste of this before, but I realized now it was merely a cheap imitation of something not meant to be imitated in the first place.”— Kiera Cass, amazon.com
“but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.”— John Irving, amazon.com