Icons Quotes - Page 11

• Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.

  Aaron Stanford

  Horror, Film, Horror Film

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• I saw how you could get away with such a free-spirited, naturalistic sensibility in a mainstream Hollywood movie, and you could apply a lot of the skills of the '70s icons that I really admire to a contemporary, commercial movie.

  David Gordon Green

  Skills, Saws, Hollywood

  Source: collider.com

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• I am the showstopper. The main event. The Icon that can still go.

  Shawn Michaels

  Events, Stills

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• I sort of do what I say and say what I do which I'm happy with because it makes my life real easy. When I was younger, people would say that I was inspired by David Lynch, so I went and watched his stuff and I was surprised. I thought it was smart, with what I was trying to do lyrically. So I started watching some of his stuff. I've never seen his movies in [their] entirety, I'm more interested in him as a person and how he came to be successful taking an alternative route, sort of a subculture icon.

  Lana Del Rey

  Real, Smart, Successful

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

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• 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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• Intellectuals and celebrities venerated monsters like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, & Ho Chi Minh. The New Left of the 1960s didn't have a change of heart, just a change of icons from Stalin to third world tyrants. The homicidal and sadistic Che Guevara is still held up as a hero.

  Jamie Glazov

  Hero, Heart, Tyrants

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• It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.

  Charles Jencks

  Iconoclasm, Should, Mark

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• Didn't need the user icon to know you're white and male.

  Teresa Nielsen Hayden

  White, Males, Needs

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• For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.

  Neil MacGregor

  Adventure, Museums, Greek

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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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• If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power of context and the process of reproduction. Claes Oldenburg's soft ice-cream cones and hamburgers changed sculpture from hard to soft, from stasis to transformation.

  Arne Glimcher

  Ice Cream, Expression, Sublime

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

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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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• 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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• I am firmly of the opinion that the Macintosh is Catholic and that DOS is Protestant. Indeed, the Macintosh is counterreformist and has been influenced by the methodical path of the Jesuits.... It is catechistic: the essence of revelation is dealt with via simple formulae and sumptuous icons. Everyone has a right to salvation. DOS is Protestant, or even Calvinistic. It allows free interpretation of scripture, demands difficult personal decisions, imposes a subtle hermeneutics upon the user, and takes for granted the idea that all can reach salvation.

  Umberto Eco

  Simple, Essence, Ideas

  "Apple's holier-than-thou attitude may be its salvation" by John Naughton, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2009.

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• Barbie is my fashion icon. People think I'm Paris Barbie - and it's a compliment.

  Paris Hilton

  Fashion, Thinking, Paris

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• Playing an icon [superman], you don't try to be an icon because that defeats the purpose. The responsibility attached is enormous, and the realization that it actually really, really matters meant that I wanted to put the most amount of work into representing the character properly.

  Henry Cavill

  Responsibility, Character, Trying

  "Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon and Russell Crowe Talk MAN OF STEEL, Making Lois Lane More Active, Getting the Flying Right and Fight Sequences" by Christina Radish, collider.com. June 9, 2013.

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• We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.

  Terence McKenna

  Fighting, Intelligent, Mind Blowing

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• That is what [Andy] Warhol portraits do: They elevate the subject into an icon of the pop culture he was documenting.

  Giorgio Armani

  Portraits, Culture, Warhol

  Interview Magazine Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 1, 2008.

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• There is a danger in becoming an icon, as people can see you as remote and untouchable, and they are less willing to tolerate you doing things that don't fit with their preconceived idea of you. Iconic status can be like a pair of handcuffs, especially if, like me, you wish to continually stretch yourself creatively, as Warhol did.

  Giorgio Armani

  Ideas, People, Wish

  Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 1, 2008.

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• Me personally, I don't have anything against Jesus any more than I do any of the religious icons. I think they're all pretty funny.

  Jack Black

  Religious, Jesus, Thinking

  Interview with Daniel Handler, www.believermag.com.

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• I don't see myself as an icon, because I just wear whatever I want to wear.

  Britney Spears

  Want

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• My personal style icon is Steve McQueen. My design style icon is a mix of everyone from Jackie O. to Lauren Hutton to my mother.

  Michael Kors

  Mother, Design, Style

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• I've always found that fashion is, first of all, mainly for yourself. So my two icons are, on one side, Little Edie from 'Grey Gardens' and, of course, like all my generation, I'm influenced by Kate Moss.

  Lou Doillon

  Fashion, Garden, Two

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• Walesa was a national hero, a true icon. The vast majority of Poles didn't believe a word the authorities said. They took everything the official media said about Walesa to be a manipulation by the Communist authorities.

  Slawomir Cenckiewicz

  Believe, Hero, Media

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't like to be called a symbol. And I don't like to be called an icon. I will just say that I have to work very, very hard. So I'd rather be known as a hard worker. I don't think symbols do much, nor icons.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Hard Work, Thinking, Workers

  "The New Burma". "60 Minutes" with Bill Whitaker, www.cbsnews.com. October 25, 2015.

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