Icons Quotes - Page 7

• When people call me a sex icon, it's flattering but it never goes to my head because I never felt sexy as a teenager.

  Eva Longoria

  Sexy, Teenager, People

  "The Sentinel - Eva Longoria interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.

  Charles Jencks

  Iconoclasm, Should, Mark

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• A fashion icon to me is somebody who has, the first person who struck you and introduced you to the world of fashion, and that person is my mom.

  Nicole Richie

  Mom, Fashion, World

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 18, 2014.

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• When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of the book.

  Anna Quindlen

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• I feel like the modeling industry is a little bit more accepting of women who make mistakes. They appreciate the idea of icons.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Mistake, Ideas, Appreciate

  "Behind-the-Scenes with Lindsay Lohan". Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2009.

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• I don't see myself as an icon, because I just wear whatever I want to wear.

  Britney Spears

  Want

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• McWorld is a product of popular culture driven by expansionist commerce. Its template is American, its form style. Its goods are as much images as matériel, an aesthetic as well as a product line. It is about culture as commodity, apparel as ideology. Its symbols are Harley-Davidson motorcycles and Cadillac motorcars hoisted from the roadways, where they once represented a mode of transportation, to the marquees of global market cafés like Harley-Davidson's and the Hard Rock where they become icons of lifestyle.

  Benjamin Barber

  Rocks, Style, Motorcycle

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• I am firmly of the opinion that the Macintosh is Catholic and that DOS is Protestant. Indeed, the Macintosh is counterreformist and has been influenced by the methodical path of the Jesuits.... It is catechistic: the essence of revelation is dealt with via simple formulae and sumptuous icons. Everyone has a right to salvation. DOS is Protestant, or even Calvinistic. It allows free interpretation of scripture, demands difficult personal decisions, imposes a subtle hermeneutics upon the user, and takes for granted the idea that all can reach salvation.

  Umberto Eco

  Simple, Essence, Ideas

  "Apple's holier-than-thou attitude may be its salvation" by John Naughton, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2009.

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• Barbie is my fashion icon. People think I'm Paris Barbie - and it's a compliment.

  Paris Hilton

  Fashion, Thinking, Paris

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• Playing an icon [superman], you don't try to be an icon because that defeats the purpose. The responsibility attached is enormous, and the realization that it actually really, really matters meant that I wanted to put the most amount of work into representing the character properly.

  Henry Cavill

  Responsibility, Character, Trying

  "Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon and Russell Crowe Talk MAN OF STEEL, Making Lois Lane More Active, Getting the Flying Right and Fight Sequences" by Christina Radish, collider.com. June 9, 2013.

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• Walesa was a national hero, a true icon. The vast majority of Poles didn't believe a word the authorities said. They took everything the official media said about Walesa to be a manipulation by the Communist authorities.

  Slawomir Cenckiewicz

  Believe, Hero, Media

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I sort of do what I say and say what I do which I'm happy with because it makes my life real easy. When I was younger, people would say that I was inspired by David Lynch, so I went and watched his stuff and I was surprised. I thought it was smart, with what I was trying to do lyrically. So I started watching some of his stuff. I've never seen his movies in [their] entirety, I'm more interested in him as a person and how he came to be successful taking an alternative route, sort of a subculture icon.

  Lana Del Rey

  Real, Smart, Successful

  "Ice Breaker: Lana Del Rey". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. October 6, 2011.

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• Jerry Garcia was one of the original American icons. He played naturally and beautifully.

  Ornette Coleman

  Jerry, Originals

  "Garcia: An American Life". Book by Blair Jackson, 1999.

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• Forget horror icon, Kety Bates is an icon. She's an acting icon. I was raised on so many of her films, everything from Misery to Fried Green Tomatoes to Delores Claiborne, all films that I've watched multiple times and been inspired by.

  Matt Bomer

  Acting, Tomatoes, Green

  "Matt Bomer Geeks Out Over Kathy Bates, Teases His New Ahs: Hotel Character". Interview with Fred Topel, editorialstaging.rottentomatoes.com. October 6, 2015.

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• There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters.

  Richard Linklater

  Artist, Thinking, Suffering

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2006.

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• "You're a sex icon." Why? Because I played a vampire in a movie? It's all very unearned. If I had the best freaking abs in the world or if I looked like Brad Pitt does in Fight Club, then cool, but I'm not starving myself.

  Kellan Lutz

  Sex, Fighting, Vampire

  Interview with Mark Jacobs, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.

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• My personal style icon is Steve McQueen. My design style icon is a mix of everyone from Jackie O. to Lauren Hutton to my mother.

  Michael Kors

  Mother, Design, Style

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• If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power of context and the process of reproduction. Claes Oldenburg's soft ice-cream cones and hamburgers changed sculpture from hard to soft, from stasis to transformation.

  Arne Glimcher

  Ice Cream, Expression, Sublime

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

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• We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.

  Terence McKenna

  Fighting, Intelligent, Mind Blowing

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• For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.

  Neil MacGregor

  Adventure, Museums, Greek

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• I don't like to be called a symbol. And I don't like to be called an icon. I will just say that I have to work very, very hard. So I'd rather be known as a hard worker. I don't think symbols do much, nor icons.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Hard Work, Thinking, Workers

  "The New Burma". "60 Minutes" with Bill Whitaker, www.cbsnews.com. October 25, 2015.

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• There is a danger in becoming an icon, as people can see you as remote and untouchable, and they are less willing to tolerate you doing things that don't fit with their preconceived idea of you. Iconic status can be like a pair of handcuffs, especially if, like me, you wish to continually stretch yourself creatively, as Warhol did.

  Giorgio Armani

  Ideas, People, Wish

  Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 1, 2008.

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• Me personally, I don't have anything against Jesus any more than I do any of the religious icons. I think they're all pretty funny.

  Jack Black

  Religious, Jesus, Thinking

  Interview with Daniel Handler, www.believermag.com.

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• Michael Jordan was a cultural icon that everybody on the playground wanted to be. The Bulls dynasty was a huge part of my childhood and it was the peak of my basketball interest as a kid.

  Macklemore

  Basketball, Kids, Childhood

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• Didn't need the user icon to know you're white and male.

  Teresa Nielsen Hayden

  White, Males, Needs

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