Idols Quotes - Page 9

• Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

  Will Rogers

  Inspiration, Profession

  Newspaper article, 15 Feb. 1925, in Paula McSpadden Grove The Will Rogers Book (1961) p. 193

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• Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Smell, Mad, Monsters

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.105, Penguin

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• So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Kings, Spring

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• Turn to yourselves rather than to your Gods or to your idols. Find what hides in yourselves; bring it to the light; show yourselves!

  Hakim Bey

  Light, Shows, Turns

  Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.146, Autonomedia

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• My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.

  Magic Johnson

  Jobs, Father, Home

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Mean, Ideas

  "Erica Jong talks sex at 73". Interview With Danielle Berrin, jewishjournal.com. October 15, 2015.

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• The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

  Adam Lambert

  Taken, Work Out, Risk

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• Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Men, Generations

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.242, Xist Publishing

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• Look at 'American Idol,' which I don't look at. Those winners haven't become household names except for Jennifer Hudson, and she was a reject. You can't aim to be a household name. You just have to be successful.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Successful, Rejects You, Names

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• Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Book

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekanand's Chicago Speech: Swami Vivekananda’s Speech At World Parliament Of Religion, Chicago”, p.15, editionNEXT.com

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• You sounded like Dolly parton on helium." (After kristy lee cook of season 7 on american idol,sang her country rendition of the Beatles'"Eight Days A Week.)

  Simon Cowell

  Country, Eight, Week

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• I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.

  Carly Rae Jepsen

  Art, College, Golden

  Interview With Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. August 27, 2012.

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• He remembered his mentor, Lou Kline, telling him in the nineties that rock and roll had peaked at Monterey Pop. They'd been in Lou's house in LA with its waterfalls, the pretty girls Lou always had, his car collection out front, and Bennie had looked into his idol's famous face and thought, You're finished. Nostalgia was the end - everyone knew that.

  Jennifer Egan

  Girl, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Jennifer Egan (2011). “A Visit From the Goon Squad”, p.31, Hachette UK

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• Honor, thou strong idol of man's mind.

  Philip Sidney

  Strong, Men, Honor

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• My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Husband, Men, Heaven

  Jane Eyre ch. 24 (1847)

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• Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

  William Hazlitt

  May, Admiration, Contempt

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1464, Delphi Classics

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• Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall.

  Bob Dylan

  Fall, Fire, Rewards

  Song: Changing of The Guards, Album: Street Legal, 1978

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• The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film idols.

  Hugh Hefner

  Growing Up, Impact, People

  "28 Questions With Hugh Hefner". Interview with Ricardo Poupada, www.askmen.com.

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• I watch 'The Voice' and 'American Idol,' and I sit in my Brookstone foot massager. It's so exciting at my house.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Voice, Feet, House

  "Jennifer Love Hewitt Talks THE CLIENT LIST, Using Social Media, and Directing the Season Finale". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 4, 2012.

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• 'American Idol' has changed the face of television.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Television, Faces, Changed

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• My idol was Marilyn Monroe, who was a size 16, I think, and curvy in all the right places. I will never be stick thin. I remember a shoot where I had to get into these tiny hot pants, and I thought, 'God, I wish I hadn't eaten.'

  Katherine Jenkins

  Thinking, Wish, Size

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

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• There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.

  Adam Lambert

  Order, Pageantry, Levels

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• The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures.

  John Shelby Spong

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

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• I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow.

  Dennis Quaid

  Cinema, Wow

  "Dennis Quaid Interview - VANTAGE POINT". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. February 18, 2008.

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• I've been asked to do 'American Idol' and 'X Factor.' I'm an Ed McMahon kind of girl. 'Star Search?' I'm in, all day long. It felt more authentic, and the market wasn't oversaturated with karaoke contests.

  Pink

  Girl, Stars, Long

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