Idols Quotes - Page 8

• The men of sense, the idols of the shallow, are very inferior to the men of passions. It is the strong passions which, rescuing us from sloth, impart to us that continuous and earnest attention necessary to great intellectual efforts.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Strong, Passion, Men

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• From American Idol to The Matrix participatory media - where old and new media converge by involving fans - is influencing our culture by creating new forms of interactive storytelling. Yet by enabling people to participate in such various media they can converge as a crowd to alter the story to create new modes of engagement, some not necessarily endorsed by the creator - or the brands that back them.

  Henry Jenkins

  Media, Creating, People

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• That makes entertaining television. That is the circus of American Idol . We go for the very, very best and the very, very worst. It's the boring people that we don't want to see on television.

  Nigel Lythgoe

  People, Television, Want

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• The fall of Rome is often regarded as an object lesson in the wages of sin. Its contemporaries, however, more frequently laid the blame on the rise of Christianity. . . . Although they do not inquire into the future, and either forget or do not know the past, yet defame present times as most unusually beset, as it were, by evils because there is belief in Christ and worship of God, and increasingly less worship of idols.

  Orosius

  Time, Fall, Past

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• I know that Dad was an idol to millions who grew up loving his music and his ideals. But to me he wasn't a musician or a peace icon, he was the father I loved and who let me down in so many ways. After the age of five, when my parents separated, I saw him only a handful of times, and when I did he was often remote and intimidating. I grew up longing for more contact with him but felt rejected and unimportant in his life.
  ... ... While Dad was fast becoming one of the wealthiest men in his field, Mum and I had very little and she was going out to work to support us.

  Julian Lennon

  Dad, Father, Men

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• Dad made me laugh a lot. He was a real comedian. He had a real sarcastic sense of humour, he could really make a fool out of people. I have to watch it a little bit, because I caught that habit from him. I was really fond of him. He was my idol.

  Julian Lennon

  Sarcastic, Dad, Real

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• The soul seeks God with its whole being. Because it is desperate to be whole, the soul is God-smitten and God-crazy and God-obsessed. My mind may be obsessed with idols; my will may be enslaved to habits; my body may be consumed with appetites. But my soul will never find rest until it rests in God.

  John Ortberg

  Crazy, Soul, Mind

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• By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.

  Rumi

  Beauty, Sight, Self

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• It is strange what society will endure from its idols.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Strange, Fame, Endure

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...”, p.5

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• Neuter discourse is a false idol.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Discourse

  Richard M. Weaver (1985). “The Ethics of Rhetoric”, p.24, Psychology Press

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• I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will.

  Nigel Lythgoe

  Art, Drama, Believe

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• Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith "thou shalt" to me is my mortal foe!

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Acquiescence, Foe, Printed

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• Last night, President Bush gave a prime-time press conference. It was such a big deal that Fox decided to preempt American Idol. Which made sense to me, you don't want too many amateurs on in one night.

  David Letterman

  Night, President, Want

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• The other night, President Bush's press conference was pre-empted by 'American Idol.' You know the difference between President Bush and 'American Idol?' See, on 'American Idol,' the one with the most votes wins.

  Jay Leno

  Winning, Night, Differences

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• A woman may live without a lover, but a lover once admitted, she never goes through life with only one. She is deserted, and cannot bear her anguish and solitude, and hence fills up the void with a second idol.

  Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer

  Love, Solitude, May

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• Eliminate mental muddiness and obscurity; keep your mind crystal clear. Allow your pure original insight to emerge. Quiet your emotions and abide in serenity. Don't go crazy with the worship of idols, images, and ideas; this is like putting a new head on top of the head you already have. Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear.

  Laozi

  Nature, Crazy, Ideas

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• Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all love, but not holy; a God who as a heaven for every body, but a hell for none; a God who can allow good and bad to be side by side in time, but will make no distinction between good and broad in eternity. Such a God is an idol of your own, as truly an idol as any snake or crocodile in an Egyptian temple. The hands of your own fancy and sentimentality have made him. He is not the God of the Bible, and beside the God of the Bible there is no God at all.

  J. C. Ryle

  Hands, Snakes, Heaven

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• If revival is being withheld from us it is because some idol remains still enthroned; because we still insist in placing our reliance in human schemes; because we still refuse to face the unchangeable truth that It is not by might, but by My Spirit.

  Jonathan Goforth

  Religious, Truth, Religion

  Jonathan Goforth (0101). “"By my Spirit"”, p.114, Solid Christian Books

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• American Idol' is a $900 million-a-year corporation. When you are dealing with that, you can't come off with lies - it's either the truth or nothing.

  Corey Clark

  Lying, Years, Corporations

  "Corey Clark Tells FOX: 'Idol' Defamed Me". www.foxnews.com. May 06, 2005.

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• American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years, so that set up a lot of roadblocks for me.

  Corey Clark

  Jobs, Past, Years

  "Corey Clark Tells FOX: 'Idol' Defamed Me", www.foxnews.com. May 6, 2005.

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• This is basically the last resort. I've been painted into a corner, and now I've sort of got to lay it all out in order for things to be straightened up. I've tried to move on with my life and my career for the last two years and do my own thing, and 'American Idol' and FOX, they've just been making it really tough for me to do that. So in order for me to get through all the red tape and just allow people to just get at my talent, I've got to set the record straight. And you can't set half the record straight; when you tell it, you've got to tell it all.

  Corey Clark

  Moving, Order, Years

  "Corey Clark says Paula Abdul 'Told me she loved me'", www.mtv.com. May 06, 2005.

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• Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.

  John Selden

  Men, Opinion, Idolatry

  John Selden (1786). “Table Talk: Being the Discourses”, p.64

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• Fame and success are very different things.

  Enya

  Different, Fame, Different Things

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

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• The idols of today are unmistakable -
  self-esteem without achievement,
  sex without consequences,
  wealth without responsibility,
  pleasure without struggle and
  experience without commitment.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Sex, Self Esteem, Struggle

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• There is nothing inherently sacred about moral codes. Like the wooden idols of long ago, they are the work of human hands, and what man has made, man can destroy!

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Men, Long Ago, Hands

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