Icons Quotes - Page 10

• 1962 to 1965, where suddenly the guitar became this icon of youth culture all over the world, thanks mostly to the Beatles. Add to that, that I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times, and that the guitar was the one instrument that my parents absolutely refused to let in the house. So you add it up and see that irresistible forces led me to the guitar.

  Pat Metheny

  Night, Guitar, House

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• The only street I like is Rue Honore de Balzac, because 'Balzac' sound so gay, and I love my gays. I might like Parisians more if they named their streets only for gay icons, like Rue Liza Minnelli or Rue Bette Midler or, my favorite, Rue McClanahan.

  Joan Rivers

  Gay, Sound, Rue

  Joan Rivers (2012). “I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me”, p.100, Penguin

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• I have a Madonna portrait done in the style of a Russian icon. My mother, the chef Lidia Bastianich, and I bought it together. It reminds me of her.

  Joe Bastianich

  Mother, Style, Together

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• We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality.

  Lauryn Hill

  Reality

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• Cultural stupidity accounts for virtually every aspect of Sarah Palin, both as a person and a political icon. Which, come to think of it, may be a pretty good reason not to misunderstimate her.

  Joe Bageant

  Thinking, Stupidity, Political

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• Well, you know, I do think in the larger span of things, I owe it all to Star Trek, because Star Trek has given me this pop icon status if you will, and one of the gifts have been this megaphone I have which amplifies my voice and I can reach people. And I do think the movement for equality for LGBT Americans is in the same context of all of the great American movements, you know, the basic fundamental ideals of this country of justice and equality.

  George Takei

  Country, Stars, Thinking

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• Kate Moss. She looks good in anything. She would look good in one of your t-shirts, in her t-shirt, in a man's suit, in a huge gown. She looks amazing naked. She even makes nude look stylish. That, to me, is a style icon. She could put a barrel on and it would be some sort of statement.

  Justin Timberlake

  Men, Style, Looks

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• People have very strong opinions about how their national icons should be played.

  Naomie Harris

  Strong, People, Opinion

  Interview with Jeffrey Wright, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 23, 2013.

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• I am considered an icon at the age of 20 when people like after 40s or after they die are considered icons. It's just amazing!

  Sonam Kapoor

  People, Age, Dies

  "Sonam Kapoor: I am considered an icon at the age of 20". www.rediff.com. March 30, 2014.

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• I've had enough of being a gay icon! I've had enough of all this hard work, because, since I came out, I keep getting all these parts, and my career's taken off. I want a quiet life. I'm going back into the closet. But I can't get back into the closet, because it's absolutely jam-packed full of other actors.

  Ian Mckellen

  Taken, Hard Work, Gay

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.

  Bar Refaeli

  Thinking, Mum

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• Gowdy had a love affair with the microphone and the fans had a love affair with him. American sports fans truly lost an icon, a legend who never felt he was bigger than anyone else. He had that humility that made him special, and he made everyone feel like they were so important.

  Dick Vitale

  Sports, Humility, Important

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• I am in awe, in admiration of the man who Gaius Julius Caesar was. I don't actually do him as the man himself. He is maybe a distant relative. It's hard to approach the real man because he is such an awesome icon.

  Karl Urban

  Real, Men, Admiration

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• Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.

  Don King

  Art, Boxing, Knees

  "Only in America!". Interview with Greg Hanlon, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2009.

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• When you look across the ring at me, and you look into my eyes, you are not immmortal, you are not an icon; you are just like everybody else. You are an obstacle, and I will run you over. And that is not a threat, that is not a warning; that is just a fact! Because brother, I am THE GAME...and I AM THAT...DAMN...GOOD!

  Triple H

  Running, Brother, Eye

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• I am honored to even be considered for any list that includes such icons as Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles. I have had posters of those guys hanging over my bed for years now. I find the whole thing quite arousing.

  Misha Collins

  Years, Guy, Bed

  "Misha Collins On Destiel, Hot 100, Random Acts and More" by Jim Halterman, www.newnownext.com. July 28, 2013.

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• The statement is that I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time.

  Lady Gaga

  Color, Made, Palette

  "Lady Gaga Unveils ‘Applause’ Single Name, Artwork" By Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2013.

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• I didn't know I was a gay icon. I get a lot of mail - but I don't get many bad letters - but I got a woman the other day that was so upset with me because they said, 'How do you feel about the gay marriage thing?' and my answer to that is, 'I really don't care with whom you sleep, I just care what kind of a decent human being you are.' I figure all the rest of it is your business and not mine. And not hers, incidentally.

  Betty White

  Sleep, Gay, Upset

  "Betty White On Gay Marriage, Meeting Obama And Being A ‘Lucky Old Broad’". Interview with Chris Harnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2012.

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• The showstopper! The icon! The main event!

  Shawn Michaels

  Wrestling, Events

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• For more than 160 years, through the initiative of the French bishop Charles de Forbin Janson, the childhood of Jesus has become the icon for the commitment of Christian children who help the Church in her task of evangelization by prayer, sacrifice and gestures of solidarity....Thousands of children meet the needs of other children, driven by the love that the Son of God, become a child, brought to the earth. I say thanks to these little ones and I pray that they will always be missionaries.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Jesus, Prayer

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• I don't think these women are stupid. I think they're selling a personality that's very marketable: Wouldn't it be fun if we were all gorgeous and didn't have a care? But creating a cultural icon out of someone who goes, I'm stupid, isn't it cute? makes me want to throw daggers at them! I want to say to them, My grandma did not fight for what she fought for, and my mother did not fight for what she fought for, so you can start telling women it's fun to be stupid. Saying that to young women, little girls, my daughter? It's not OK.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Cute, Girl, Daughter

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• He (son Jason) doesn't see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?

  Barbra Streisand

  Mother, Son, Gay

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• When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of the world. Almost every mythology sees the origins of life coming out of water. And, curiously, that's true. It's amusing that the origin of life out of water is in myths and then again, finally, in science, we find the same thing. It's exactly so.

  Joseph Campbell

  Rain, Origin Of Life, Rivers

  Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.10, New World Library

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• I have started to realize that I am really just a world athlete and a world entertainer -- I am a world-known person, I am a global icon.

  Serena Williams

  Athlete, World, Realizing

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• On the news that the Tsar had sent the troops icons to boost their morals, General Dragomirov quipped: 'The Japanese are beating us with machine-guns, but never mind: we'll beat them with icons.

  Orlando Figes

  Gun, Mind, Troops

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