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• I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.

  Connie Stevens

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.

  Leif Garrett

  Teenager, Superstar, Frank

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• The man molds the idol and then the idol molds the man.

  Adrian Rogers

  Men, Mold, He Man

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• I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Party, People

  Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.153, Rowman & Littlefield

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• My idol was Sandino, and also Christ. I was brought up a Christian, but I regarded Christ as a rebel, a revolutionary.

  Daniel Ortega

  Christian, Rebel, Revolutionary

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• Indeed the Idols I have loved so long, have done my credit in this World much wrong; have drowned my Glory in a shallow Cup, and sold my Reputation for a Song.

  Omar Khayyam

  Wisdom, Song, Long

  Omar Khayyam (2015). “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”, p.43, Booklassic

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• There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.

  Paul Bourget

  Intellectual, Delight, Iconoclasm

  Paul Bourget (1908). “Cosmopolis: Crowned by the French Academy”

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• No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.

  Shirley Manson

  Role Models, Musical, Comfort

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• My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

  Natalie Cole

  Typical, Culture, Annie

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• Any time you're mentioned in the same breath as Tony Esposito, for whatever reason, it's a great honor. He's one of my idols. He's one of the greatest of all time.

  Curtis Joseph

  Honor, Reason, All Time

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• The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.

  John Berger

  Winning, Media, Darkness

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• What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!

  Isaac Mizrahi

  What If, Would Be, Roles

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• Concepts create idols; only wonder understands anything.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Wonder, Concepts

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• A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

  R. C. Sproul

  Wrath, Justice, Grace

  Twitter post from Nov 17, 2015

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Respect, Individual

  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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• We must overturn so many idols, the idol of self first of all, so that we can be humble, and only from our humility can learn to be redeemers, can learn to work together in the way the
  world really needs.

  Oscar Romero

  Humble, Humility, Self

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• Money isn't an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.

  Timothy Keller

  Shows

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• Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.

  William Stringfellow

  Money, Lawyer, Sin

  William Stringfellow (2006). “Dissenter in a Great Society: A Christian View of America in Crisis”, p.40, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Worship

  Andrew Carnegie (2014). “The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and His Essay The Gospel of Wealth”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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• Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.

  Democritus

  Good Luck, Men, Gambling

  "Source Book in Ancient Philosophy". Book by Charles Montague Bakewell, 1907.

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• The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation.

  John Adams

  Writing, Men, Letters

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.240

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• To hell with the future. It's a man-eating idol.

  Ivan Illich

  Men, Hell, Eating

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• You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to.

  Philip K. Dick

  Taken, Giving, Killing

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How many more idols must you find before you realize that you are the one you have been searching for?

  Dan Fogelberg

  Realizing, Has Beens

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• Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.

  Marina Abramovic

  Artist, Thinking, Sides

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