Idolized Quotes

• Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Respect, Idols

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.228, Princeton University Press

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• My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

  Albert Einstein

  Self Esteem, Men, Political

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• The persons whom you have idolized can never, in the end, be ungrateful, and, probably, at the time of retreat they still do justice to your heart. But, so long as you must draw persons too near you, a temporary recoil is sure to follow. It is the character striving to defend itself from a heating and suffocating action upon it.

  Margaret Fuller

  Heart, Character, Long

  Margaret Fuller, Bell Gale Chevigny (1976). “The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings”, p.134, UPNE

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• I worked with everybody, the best, and they actually paid me money to stand next to the people I idolized.

  Bobby Sherman

  People, Next, Paid

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• If I ever complain about yachting around the Mediterranean with Madonna, who I just idolized as a child, I should be slapped across the face.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Children, Complaining, Faces

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• We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.

  Dave Barry

  Teeth, Rolling, Literature

  Dave Barry (2013). “My Teenage Son's Goal in Life Is to Make Me Feel 3,500 Years Old: and Other Thoughts on Parenting from Dave Barry”, p.59, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• As a kid I always idolized the winning athletes. It is one thing to idolize heroes. It is quite another to visualize yourself in their place. When I saw great people, I said to myself: I can be there.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Sports, Hero, Athlete

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• I believe that everything happens for a reason.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Break Up, Broken Heart, Meaningful

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

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• Acting comes natural to me. What I do enjoy is meeting people that I've idolized for years. I mean, I was talking about bringing up a child with Edie Falco yesterday.

  Josh Gad

  Children, Mean, Talking

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• I have always idolized eccentric people.

  Brandon Boyd

  People, Eccentric

  Brandon Boyd “From the murks of the sultry abyss”

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• I don't want to be idolized, I just want to play. And to do that you have to run and sweat.

  Alfredo Di Stefano

  Running, Play, Sweat

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• The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody - like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger - and I thought, 'That can be me.' So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn't realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Men, Funny Things, Work Out

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• I've always idolized Amy Poehler, because I think she's the best of the best as far as female comedy.

  Kristen Bell

  Thinking, Female, Amy

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. November 12, 2008.

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• Man, I'm messed up right now. My best friend is my father? The man I idolized as a kid... whose tattoo is on my arm... And he's younger than me. Yeah, I don't think I can handle this. Mindwipe me, somebody... please! Where's that dragon from Sanctuary? Simi, go get Max. I need him.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Tattoo, Father, Kids

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• [T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Athlete, Thinking, Media

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• Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Insane, Looks, Monkeys

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2006). “The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings”, p.22, Bantam Classics

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• Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because their self-love is in tune with current fears and desires, and in giving it expression they are speaking for an inarticulate multitude.

  Hugh Kingsmill

  Love Is, Men, Self

  Hugh Kingsmill (1949). “The progress of a biographer”

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• I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the first woman they idolized, the woman they could never have. The woman who aroused them romantically holds them.

  Anais Nin

  Beautiful, Men, Firsts

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• I loved cowboy films and TV series, and I learned bits of English from them. My favorite was 'Laramie', with Robert Fuller and John Smith. I used to watch 'The Lone Ranger', which had been famous in Japan as well. I idolized these cowboys.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Cowboy, Japan, Watches

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• I idolized my mother. I didn't realize she was a lousy cook until I went into the army.

  Jackie Gayle

  Mother, Army, Realizing

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• He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion... no, make that: he - he romanticized it all out of proportion. Yes. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Black And White, Cities

  "Fictional character: Isaac Davis". Comedy, Drama, Romance, www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• Whatsoever we have over-loved, idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to see the vanity of it; so that we find the readiest course to be rid of our comforts is to set our hearts inordinately upon them.

  John Flavel

  Christian, Heart, Blessing

  John flavel, Rev Terry Kulakowski (2017). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.145, Lulu.com

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• The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened their precious brood. They were women who idolized their children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels.

  Kate Chopin

  Summer, Mother, Husband

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.19

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• Michael Bloomfield came in after rock n roll started, and he was a great guitarist. He idolized me - I know that. What else can I say ? he was a young, excitable man. To him, drugs were plentiful, and that was no good. I talked to him like he was a son of mine. He was a great and he was gonna be greater. But he was part of the "in-crowd" and so he never got there

  B. B. King

  Music, Son, Men

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• My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.

  Patti Smith

  Father, Talking, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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