Icons Quotes

• I feel very fortunate to be compared to somebody so incredible. Michael Jackson's an icon.

  Justin Timberlake

  Incredibles, Feels, Fortunate

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• I'm more than an actor. I'm an icon, an industry.

  Corey Feldman

  Actors, Industry

  Corey Feldman (2013). “Coreyography: A Memoir”, p.247, Macmillan

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• I'm Valentino Rossi. And I want to be a person, not an icon.

  Valentino Rossi

  Want, Valentino, Persons

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

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• It's always intimidating to meet an icon.

  Jennifer O'Neill

  Intimidating

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

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• Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, Mean, Clothes

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• These are icons to be treasured.

  Robert Stack

  Treasured

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• Dick Clark is an American icon. I am honored that he has entrusted me with such a role in this national tradition.

  Ryan Seacrest

  Roles, Tradition, Honored

  "Clark and Seacrest to Co-Host New Year's Eve". www.foxnews.com. August 15, 2005.

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• When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surround her with men that not only have no problem with the idea of a female leader, but were in fact engaged and even attracted to the idea.

  Joss Whedon

  Men, Ideas, Leader

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• I think what sets this one apart is that there are two horror movie icons finally battling each other. You actually see them beat the crap out of each other instead of just terrorizing the kids in the movie.

  Monica Keena

  Kids, Thinking, Two

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• We've never performed the song live outside of recording it in the studio. That was a dream come true because Whitney, she's an icon and she's been one of my main mentors in this business.

  Deborah Cox

  Dream, Song, Mentor

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• Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits.

  Kylie Minogue

  Gay, Tragedy, Outfits

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• Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well.

  Anthony Anderson

  Believe, Thinking, Looks

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

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• An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?

  Peter Brook

  Jesus, Earth, Christ

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• I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we.

  Jim Allchin

  Technology, Way, Clean

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• What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Target, Manhattan, Causes

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• When you're playing an icon like Wolverine, it's sometimes better to be someone that nobody knows because they don't know what to expect. I don't mind a little bit of anonymity; it helps on the subway.

  Hugh Jackman

  Mind, Littles, Subway

  "This 'X' rates excitement". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 13, 2000.

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• Natalie's estate is handled by Global Icons, and they police the world so her picture isn't on a T-shirt or coffee cup unless we approve of it.

  Robert Wagner

  Coffee, Police, World

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• I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.

  Jane Horrocks

  Thinking, Expectations, Want

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• David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.

  Tom Brokaw

  Country, Tragedy, Few Words

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• To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.

  Marcus Allen

  Sports, Fall, Names

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• There was something about Marilyn. She couldn't act her way out of a bag, but she became an icon because something happened between her and the lens, and no one knows what it is.

  Richard Widmark

  Lenses, Bags, Way

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• We have lost all our big Australian industries and icons, including Qantas when it sold 25 per cent of its shares and a controlling interest to British Airways.

  Pauline Hanson

  Share, Lost, Bigs

  "Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. July 19, 2016.

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• I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Gay, Community, Position

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• Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way.

  Matthew Barney

  Character, Roles, Way

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• Elegance is not standing out, but being remembered.

  Giorgio Armani

  Fashion, Elegance, Standing Out

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