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• My idols are Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Keaton, John Goodman. Maybe that's what I want for me.

  Breckin Meyer

  Want, Goodman

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

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• People around me called me an idol, so that's what I was.

  Namie Amuro

  People

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• I am classified as an idol in Hong Kong and in Asia.

  Andy Lau

  Asia, Hong Kong

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• These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.

  John Lennon

  Artist, People, Way

  "John Lennon: The Last Interview". Interview with Jonathan Cott, www.rollingstone.com. December 23, 2010.

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• Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?

  Barbra Streisand

  Thinking, Play, Two

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

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• In all honesty, I'm not able to talk about contracts. It's nothing with 'American Idol' in particular, it's just things I really need to take care of in my life.

  Mario Vazquez

  Honesty, Needs, Care

  "Mario denies rumors about 'Idol' departure". Associated Press, www.today.com. March 14, 2005.

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• Tom Hanks has been a huge idol of mine. I'd love to work with someone like him someday. You could learn a lot working with someone like that.

  James Lafferty

  Liking Someone, Someday, Huge

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• I enjoy watching Fear Factor, Newlyweds and American Idol as far as reality TV shows go.

  Natalie Gulbis

  Reality, Tv Shows, Tvs

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• Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?

  Freddie Mercury

  Redneck, Way, Pouting

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• Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Armor, Weapons

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.332, Penguin

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• Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Motivational, Men, Blunders

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• There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my "evil eye" for this world, which is also my "evil ear".

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Reality, Evil

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Duncan Large (2008). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.3, Oxford University Press

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• For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols

  Aldous Huxley

  Religious, Spring, Two

  Aldous Huxley (2003). “Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience”, Crossroad 8 Avenue

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• The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.

  Billy Idol

  Stupid, People, Misconception

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

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• Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.

  Paula Abdul

  Song, Jobs, Taken

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• And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.

  Jackson Browne

  Dad, Play, Perfect

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• What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Positive, Depression, Attitude

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.688, Vintage

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• The idol is the measure of the worshipper.

  James Russell Lowell

  Idolatry, Worshippers

  James Russell Lowell (1889). “Books and Libraries: Democracy and Other Papers”

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• Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Philosophy, Literature, Certain

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• When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.

  Lorna Luft

  Parent, Chance, Lays

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• My idol was Jack Benny and he was the master of subtlety and timing.

  Don Knotts

  Timing, Masters, Subtlety

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

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• Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Birthday, Power, Age

  Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• I definitely wanted to be an actor. I didn't want to be on TV, I didn't want to be famous, I didn't want to be anyone in particular; I just wanted to do it. I see young people now who look at magazines, or American Idol and their goal is to have that lifestyle - to have good handbags, or go out with cute guys from shows, or whatever. But I definitely wanted to be an actor.

  Lauren Graham

  Cute, People, Goal

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• It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.

  Lesley Garrett

  Thinking, Worry, Training

  "Soprano soundtrack" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

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• If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.

  Robert Moses

  Musical, Administration, Comedy

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