Icons Quotes - Page 8

• It's not like I think my art is inspirations from icons strung together. They're just sort of people who others talk about. I am definitely interested in the masters of different genres, they're talented and popular for a reason.

  Lana Del Rey

  Art, Inspiration, Thinking

  "Ice Breaker: Lana Del Rey". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. October 6, 2011.

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• What makes a gay icon is someone who possesses both masculine and feminine qualities simultaneously.

  RuPaul

  Gay, Masculine And Feminine, Quality

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 17, 2014.

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• I guess I felt straight when I was allowed to get married. Now I feel queerer because I'm not. It's the only thing that's changed. I wouldn't measure it in icon status or how much my demographic has changed, but in the rage I feel, and being not equal.

  Sia Furler

  Married, Rage, Demographics

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• I think because I've gotten permission from my style icons like Tim Gunn and André Leon Talley, who say to me, "You don't need to dress like anyone else, because you're your own fashion icon. You represent comfortable. And you do fashion your way, and you should be at Fashion Week." They gave me permission to enjoy it! And it's great!

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Fashion, Thinking, Style

  "Whoopi Goldberg Is the Fashion Week Muse We Need". Interview with Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. September 12, 2016.

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• It is fashionable to scoff at Americans, but they routinely produce most of the important and ground-breaking entertainment in the world. 'Popular culture' is still culture, Shakespeare was once as popular as any of today's icons with the common people.

  Ian O'Doherty

  People, Important, Today

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• The idea that Taylor Swift would become the giant pop icon of 2015, 2016 - she's really good, but I don't think it's written in the stars.

  Cass Sunstein

  Stars, Thinking, Ideas

  "Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 2, 2016.

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• The idea of a visual icon that gives you a sense of information very quickly and that you can easily just say "That's what the style is."

  DJ Spooky

  Ideas, Giving, Style

  Source: bigthink.com

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• You'll get this kind of psychological relationship to the imagery of the music, but that idea is translated to iPhone apps. It's translated to the small, you know, kind of icons on your computer. You name it.

  DJ Spooky

  Iphone, Names, Ideas

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 8, 2010.

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• What I learned from being around great icons like Calvin Klein is that the great fashion trendsetters don't change their look every season. They have a look, and they update maybe a piece per season.

  Elizabeth Rogers

  Fashion, Looks, Pieces

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Designing the prints was very much like writing a story with characters, [inspired by] some of my my favorite icons of the time: Eva Perón and Josephine Baker.

  Mia Moretti

  Writing, Character, Design

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The idea of being icons, I think it's great when you're 24. It's fantastic.

  Ian Astbury

  Thinking, Ideas, Fantastic

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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• I've never really compared myself to anyone who's a big star - I'm not trying to be a fashion icon or get famous.

  Katy B

  Fashion, Stars, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Being in the music business requires having a very strong resolve. You must be completely committed to the craziness that will inevitably ensue when pursing a career in music. There is no one who is immune to this. Not even the biggest music icons.

  Wendy Starland

  Strong, Careers, Craziness

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• Alexander McQueen... The fashion world has not only lost an icon but we have also lost a very special friend.

  Donatella Versace

  Fashion, Special, World

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• NBC's The West Wing is an icon for bad stories; Gitmo is a place where we keep an eye on evil, dangerous people who want to kill us.

  Ann Coulter

  Eye, Nbc, Wings

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• [Harriet Tubman] is a legend, an icon, a soldier on the side of justice, a spiritual warrior, and a servant of God, as well as the one of the baddest women to literally ever walk the land. I surrendered to her spirit.

  Aisha Hinds

  Spiritual, Warrior, Servant Of God

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

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• I don't care if you're a liberal icon or a conservative icon. If you are not willing to be active in your democracy and do what is necessary to deal with our problems, I think you should be voted out.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Democracy, Care

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I've always loved King Kong. He's like a modern-day myth, an icon of the cinema.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Kings, Cinema, Modern

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• I like to blow up stereotypes, like taking the icons of metal, the epitome of male testosterone and showing them as regular people.

  Joe Berlinger

  Blow, People, Males

  Source: povmagazine.com

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• John Lewis is an icon in our society.

  Al Sharpton

  Our Society

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon. Donald Trump fired back at democratic Congressman John Lewis after Lewis said he did not see Trump as a legitimate president.

  Al Sharpton

  War, Rights, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I am interested in Icons, not just religious works but also contemporary icons. I also like the way the Pop movement of the 60s took subjects from consumer products and people - soup cans, comic books, film stars - and elevated them through art, just like in traditional iconography.

  Horace Panter

  Religious, Art, Stars

  Source: louderthanwar.com

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• It is true that one was not allowed at the time to really ask, what would lead people to do this, from what sense of political outrage or injury? And in that way, the possibility of sympathetic identification was foreclosed. That does not mean that some people took quiet pleasure in certain icons of US capitalism coming down, even though they would oppose such action on moral and political grounds.

  Judith Butler

  Mean, People, Political

  Interview With Cihan Aksan, Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• My mother was my beauty icon my whole life.

  Gigi Hadid

  Mother, Whole Life, Whole

  Source: www.elle.com

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• My fashion icons are my dad, Pharrell, and Johnny Depp.

  Victor Cruz

  Fashion, Dad, My Dad

  Source: www.ebony.com

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