Idols Quotes - Page 25

• I think I find new idols every day - someone that says something really inspiring, is successful, has character.

  Miranda Lambert

  Character, Successful, Thinking

  Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 04, 2009.

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• I've been all different shapes and sizes in my lifetime. I started wearing shapewear as a teenager after I did 'Australian Idol.' I had a little tummy, and I was always really quite conscious of that.

  Ricki-Lee Coulter

  Teenager, Different, Shapes

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• There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town, There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew, And the yellow god forever gazes down.

  J. Milton Hayes

  Yellow, Broken, Mad

  'The Green Eye of the Yellow God' (1911)

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• Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so seductive; but aesthetic experience itself degenerates into a kind of fetish or idol if it is held up as an end in itself, untested by the rest of life.

  Roger Kimball

  Beauty, Art, Rest Of Life

  Roger Kimball (2000). “Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age”, Ivan R Dee

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• Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.

  Theodore Parker

  Religious, Men, World

  Theodore Parker (1864). “Critical Writings”, p.20

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• How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen.

  Isaac Watts

  Book, Scripture, Stones

  Isaac Watts, John DOBELL (1805). “Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Book fourth. Composed on divers subjects by I. Watts. Compiled and arranged by J. Dobell”, p.61

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• Music has always helped my films. In 'The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion,' you can hear 'Sunrise' by Glenn Miller, an idol of my childhood, in the surprise ending. I like mixing comedy with suspense and action.

  Woody Allen

  Childhood, Sunrise, Mixing

  "Woody chooses music over film", www.cnn.com. August 28, 2001.

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• An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man becomes familiar with his goddess she quickly sinks into a woman.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, May, Apotheosis

  Sir Richard Steele, Alexander Chalmers, Joseph Addison (1806). “The Spectator”, p.423

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• And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Grief, Suffering

  William Shakespeare, T.W. Craik (1995). “King Henry V: Third Series”, p.272, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.

  Walter Lippmann

  Society, Looks, Impossible

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.15, Transaction Publishers

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• Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. In this great balance of utility, the spiritual service of art has no weight, and, deprived of all encouragement, it vanishes from the noisy Vanity Fair of our time.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Spiritual, Encouragement, Art

  "Literary and philosophical essays: French, German, and Italian", Collier, Volume 32, sourcebooks.fordham.edu. 1910.

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• We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose. The worldwide crisis affecting finance and the economy lays bare their imbalances and, above all, their lack of real concern for human beings; man is reduced to one of his needs alone: consumption.

  Pope Francis

  Real, Men, Cfs

  "The Joy of the Gospel: Evangelii Gaudium". Book by Pope Francis, w2.vatican.va. November 26, 2013.

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• An American Idol is someone that has all the qualities that America thinks is positive, attractive and alluring.

  Mario Vazquez

  Thinking, America, Quality

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• Christy Turlington is my idol. She really is. She's a gorgeous woman inside and out. I admire her work in the charity field. She's just been able to balance it all - and gracefully, as well.

  Karlie Kloss

  Balance, Charity, Able

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• When all of our idols are taken away, all our securities and defense mechanisms,
  we find out who we really are. We’re so little, so poor, so emptyand a shock to ourselves. But the Biblical God takes away our shame,
  and we are eventually able to present ourselves in an honest and humble form.
  Then we find out who we really are and who God is for usand it is more than enough. That is how an enslaved people became God’s people, Israel.

  Aaron Lines

  Taken, Humble, Biblical

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• I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.

  N. T. Wright

  Spiritual, Loss, Humanness Is

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• You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.

  Barry Manilow

  Kids, Three, Stories

  "Barry Manilow On Singing Standards And His Real Job". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 7, 2012.

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• There are plenty of people who are willing to pay $2.6 million for 30 seconds on the Super Bowl and hundreds of thousands of dollars for 'American Idol.' There will be advertising dollars on the Internet. We're there as well. We win either way.

  Leslie Moonves

  Winning, People, Pay

  "CBS Chief Isn't Worried About YouTube or Google — 'As Long as We Get Paid'". Interview with Frank Rose, www.wired.com. May 16, 2007.

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• I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.

  Shaun Cassidy

  Shelves, Shelf Life

  "Shaun Cassidy Creator Of American Gothic". Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. December 19, 2005.

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• What men deny is not God, but some preposterous idol of the imagination.

  George Tyrrell

  Men, Imagination, Atheism

  George Tyrrell (1912). “Life of George Tyrrell from 1884 to 1909”

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• The fact that an Englishman has an Argentinian as an idol is very rare. I keep watching my [title-winning] goal against QPR and every time I get more emotional. My plan is to stay here because I'm convinced Manchester City will be at the same level as Real Madrid and Barcelona.

  Sergio Aguero

  Real, Winning, Emotional

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• If we must “feel” God's presence before we believe he is with us, we again reduce God to our ability to grasp him, making him an idol instead of acknowledging him as God.

  Craig S. Keener

  Believe, Ability, Feels

  Craig S. Keener (2001). “Gift and Giver: The Holy Spirit for Today”, p.27, Baker Books

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• Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often made idols, and all must bow down to them or be punished.

  J. C. Ryle

  Lasts, Firsts, Bows

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• Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Dream, Thinking, Too Much

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• If you look at me as a role model, I agree with it. If you look at me as an idol, I don't because an idol for me is someone that you want to replicate. You want to be them and I don't wish that on anyone to lose what they have personally, because that's when your spark is lost.

  Miley Cyrus

  Role Models, Wish, Roles

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