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• I'm cute - and God I hate that. Because that's not cool. I'm like your niece, and nobody wants to date their niece. It's the chubby cheeks. The whole reason people voted for me on American Idol is because I'm an everyday, normal girl.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Cute, Girl, Niece

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• It is better to catch the idol-maker than to smash each idol.

  Walter Lippmann

  Makers

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• It's great to get to work with your idols.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Source: collider.com

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• Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.

  Arthur Eddington

  Education, Knowledge, Math

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• As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.

  Elizabeth A. Johnson

  Metaphor, Shows

  Elizabeth A. Johnson (2011). “Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God”, p.26, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.

  Rick Springfield

  Teenager, Marketing, Records

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• If we had to choose one American Idol to go out to dinner with, it would be Fantasia. There are no airs and graces about her. ... I like her.

  Simon Cowell

  Air, Grace, Would Be

  "'Idol' Judges: Fantasia Our Favorite". www.foxnews.com. October 7, 2005.

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• I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.

  Megan Martha White

  Want, Autobiography, Knows

  "The sweetheart deal". Interview with Keith Cameron, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2003.

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• Even though James Burton was my idol, I didn't think I could carry his shoes back then.

  John Fogerty

  Thinking, Shoes

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• When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didnt have time to think.

  Namie Amuro

  Thinking, Time To Think

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• What you do with your life is ascribing more to what you invest your time in. If you spend a lot of time on your phone, you're ascribing more worship to that. Anything can become, by that definition, some form of idol or deity or ultimate worth in your life.

  Jon Foreman

  Phones, Definitions, Deities

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• I don't know a lot of guys who started out as a hard rock and roller with a white stripe in their hair. Suddenly I do a TV movie and I wake up the next day and I'm a teen idol, like I'd laid on a beach in California all my life waiting for that to happen.

  Rex Smith

  Beach, Hair, Rocks

  "New Again: Rex Smith". Interview with Andy Warhol and Bob Colacello, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 20, 1981.

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• Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all, it's no more than a religion founded to excuse the ubiquity of imbeciles!

  Claude Debussy

  Ubiquity, Common Sense, Sacred

  Claude Debussy, François Lesure, Roger Nichols (1987). “Debussy Letters: ,”, Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press

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• The Human heart is an idol factory.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Factories, Idolatry

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• I'm your idol, the highest title, Numero Uno, I'm not a Puerto Rican, but I'm speakin so that you know, And understand, I got the gift of speech, And it's a blessin, so listen to the lesson I preach.

  Special Ed

  Rap, Hip Hop, Titles

  Song: I Got It Made, Album: Youngest in Charge

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• Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.

  Adam Oates

  Soccer, Growing Up, Father

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• The problem isn't that conservatives are wrong about the efficiency of markets or the creativity of enterprise. It's that they have made false idols of both, usually without acknowledging that markets work best when well regulated, that private enterprise cannot meet every human need, that government has always played a critical role in our economy, and that the profit motive can be socially and environmentally destructive as well as dynamic.

  Joe Conason

  Creativity, Government, Political

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• Last year was the fourth or fifth attempt to get fall launched till 'American Idol' comes in January. To be honest, the reality programming we had on last year was considered filler until we could get to the good stuff. It was meant to hopefully get us to January andor to November. To get past baseball. But (it) didn't work very well.

  Mike Darnell

  Baseball, Fall, Reality

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• In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch.

  Andres Iniesta

  Soccer, Past, Today

  "Q&A with Spain's Andres Iniesta". Interview with Richard Deitsch, www.si.com. June 02, 2011.

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• Let us say "Yes" to life and not death. Let us say "Yes" to freedom and not enslavement to the many idols of our time. In a word, let us say "Yes" to the God who is love, life and freedom, and who never disappoints.

  Pope Francis

  Inspirational, Love Life, Pro Life

  Pope Francis (2017). “Happiness in This Life: A Passionate Meditation on Material Existence and the Meaning of Life”, p.41, Pan Macmillan

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• It’s all too easy to turn the fight of faith into sanctification-by-checklist. Take care of a few bad habits, develop a couple good ones, and you’re set. But a moral checklist doesn’t take into consideration the idols of the hearts. It may not even have the gospel as part of the equation. And inevitably, checklist spirituality is highly selective. So you end up feeling successful at sanctification because you stayed away from drugs, lost weight, served at the soup kitchen, and renounced Styrofoam. But you’ve ignored gentleness, humility, joy, and sexual purity.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Couple, Heart, Humility

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• Even our pets can become idols.

  Billy Graham

  Choices, Pet

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• Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods. But we are idols and we're all gods, so to speak, and I think that celebrities should acknowledge their responsibility, because we are in a position to help.

  Dolly Parton

  Religious, Responsibility, Thinking

  "New Again: Dolly Parton". Interview with Andy Warhol, Maura Moynihan, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 18, 2012.

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• My idol was always Romario. He was playing in Holland at the time and I loved him. His skills, technique, I loved him he was my hero. I liked his whole game. One moment it would be like he was sleeping and then another moment he would change the game.

  Rafael van der Vaart

  Hero, Sleep, Games

  The Soccer Bible Interview, www.soccerbible.com. March 20, 2014.

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• It does seem to me that at least some of us have made an idol of exhaustion. The only time we know we have done enough is when we are running on empty and when the ones we love most are the ones we see the least.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Running, Doe, Done

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