Icons Quotes - Page 6

• I always found Louise Brooks interesting. She was an icon of the silent - film era, and I knew she'd grown up in Kansas, and that she was smart and rebellious and sharp - tongued.

  Laura Moriarty

  Smart, Silent Films, Kansas

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• I think his portraits of Jackie, Liz, Marilyn, Mao, Elvis, Lenin - and objects like the soup cans, the dollar signs, the hammer and sickle, it's all about icons. Its all about what people worship in an irreligious or secular world. In terms of Andy's personality and Andy Warhol as a human being who I was very close to, I still feel kind of sorry for him on a personal level. I mean, he was the ultimate example of great success wrapped around inner turmoil and emotional pain.

  Bob Colacello

  Sorry, Pain, Mean

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• As a matter of fact, I constantly tell audiences all over the world that the single greatest icon of American culture from the publication of "To Kill A Mockingbird" was that novel so that if we say, what conversation can we have that would lead us on a road of tolerance, and teachers have decided that if you're going to teach values in a school in America, the answer that American teachers at all kinds of schools have come up with, just let Harper Lee teach "To Kill A Mockingbird." And then all the teacher has to do is stand back and guide the discussion.

  Wayne Flynt

  Teacher, School, America

  "Harper Lee Remembered As Reclusive". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. February 20, 2016.

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• Our campaigns have always been based on what we consider music icons that transcend generations and they're not of the moment - they continue to evolve.

  Paul Weller

  Generations, Campaigns, Moments

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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• When I first started my own brand, when I needed an icon, I had no other icon but myself. I had to create that.

  Jeremy Scott

  Firsts, Needed, Brands

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I was very fortunate to be able to represent an icon to many African Americans.

  Usher

  African American, Able, Fortunate

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• When you say cultural icon, I scrunch my nose.

  Ava DuVernay

  Noses

  Source: collider.com

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• David Ortiz is an icon. He is one of a kind. But we'll do our best job to replace the offensive aspect, however we can.

  Dave Dombrowski

  Jobs, Best Job, Kind

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• My mom brought me up on old Hollywood. I had been living in Los Angeles. Respecting old movies and growing up with people that were icons that I got to speak to.

  Lily Collins

  Mom, Growing Up, People

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• If ever there's been somebody to hold as an icon of sheer determination and willpower, it's that guy [Stephen Hawking ], let alone any of the things he's done scientifically. I'm sure that's his driving force, but he's a miracle and an aspiration.

  Kate Bush

  Determination, Miracle, Guy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Yes, you can have art films about the triumph of the human spirit and all of that, but you'll have it done with a big-budget icon with a $20 million salary. You'll have Julia Roberts, you'll have Robert Redford, you'll have Russell Crowe doing those films, because if they're going to cost $90 million, they're going to make that movie for a public that's very large and mainstream. They're not going to make it for three or four million black people.

  Pam Grier

  Art, Yes You Can, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In fact, James Meredith who was once the icon of the civil rights movement. He supported me for governor!

  David Duke

  Rights, Movement, Facts

  "Dr. Duke on CNN: Hear the UNCENSORED FULL Interview Here". CNN Interview, davidduke.com. January 5, 2015.

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• There will be a wealth of facts revealed and revisited in [Underground] pertaining to Harriet Tubman. That is a huge part of my excitement, the fact that this generation will get such a beautifully-detailed introduction to a hero and icon that has largely lived in a few pages of our history books and in one-dimensional photographs.

  Aisha Hinds

  Hero, Book, Facts

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

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• I think it's just important to not judge people based on their physicality because it's really about personality and people's hearts and souls. That's what drew me to Audrey Hepburn who is kind of like my icon.

  Lily Collins

  Heart, Thinking, People

  "Interview: Actress Lily Collins on 'Mirror Mirror,' Modern Day Princes, Beauty in Hollywood". Interview with Eryn Sun, www.christianpost.com. March 27, 2012.

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• That thing about being an icon, the fifth Beatle, I just found it so freaky.

  George Best

  Found, Freaky, Fifth

  George Best (2012). “Blessed - The Autobiography”, p.196, Random House

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• My two style icons are Edie Sedgwick and Brigitte Bardot.

  Pixie Lott

  Two, Style, Style Icons

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• No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries for help and expressions of contentment and relationship-status updates with heart icons whole or broken, plans to meet up later, pleas, complaints, desires, pictures of babies dressed as bears or peppers for Halloween. No more reading and commenting on the lives of others, and in so doing, feeling slightly less alone in the room. No more avatars.

  Emily St. John Mandel

  Dream, Baby, Halloween

  Emily St. John Mandel (2014). “Station Eleven: A novel”, p.39, Vintage

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• I don’t feel like a gay icon. I don’t feel like an icon at all. Every single interview was always, ‘What’s it like to play a gay character?’ It would be nice if I was never asked that again. Why isn’t anyone asking the other girls what it’s like to kiss a boy?

  Shay Mitchell

  Girl, Nice, Character

  "9 Quotes From The 'Pretty Little Liars' Cast That Will Inspire You To Be Your Best Self" by Crystal Bell, www.mtv.com. April 15, 2015.

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• Comics are reflective of what's going on in larger culture. Wonder Woman came to be in her position when women were first entering the workplace in numbers during the war. Then Wonder Woman had another rise in the '70s when Gloria Steinem latched on to her as an icon for the [feminist] movement. I think we're seeing another wave of feminism today, a fourth wave characterized by intersectionality and the internet. And I think it falls right in line that we would see another wave of superheroines coming to the fore.

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

  War, Fall, Thinking

  "'So My Daughter Won't Have To': Why Kelly Sue DeConnick Fights to Make Women Welcome in Comics". Interview with Christopher Zumski Finke, www.yesmagazine.org. January 29, 2014.

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• In terms of influence, my style icons have been a mixture of Julie Andrews and Olivia Newton-John. When I was little I used to watch 'Grease,' 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Sound of Music' a lot. If you put all those things together you do kind of get my outfits. A slightly tarty nanny in a second-hand outfit. That is pretty much what I wear.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Hands, Grease, Style

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• I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the Valley think of Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett as role models. We would love to be half as good as they were.

  Larry Ellison

  Thinking, Careers, Role Models

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• Programs, systems and methods sit well in the ivory towers of monasteries or in the wooden arms of icons. Head knowledge comes from the pages of a theology text. But the invitation to know God - truly know Him - is always an invitation to suffer. Not to suffer alone, but to suffer with Him.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Ivory Tower, Suffering, Towers

  Joni Eareckson Tada (2010). “When God Weeps: Why Our Sufferings Matter to the Almighty”, p.137, Zondervan

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• If there’s any other message in this to readers, it’s in these two characters as icons of hope, that it doesn’t make any difference where you come from, or where you went to school, or who you are, there’s hope. That a kid from Jersey with Superman as the icon that kept him alive for years would one day end up writing the character is as absoutely unlikely as it is utterly inevitable. And if that’s true for me, it’s true for you, if you follow your dreams and your passions in full flight. Don’t give up. No Limits. It’s never too late to learn to fly.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Dream, Giving Up, Passion

  "J. Michael Stracyznski takes over Superman and Wonder Woman" by Glenn Hauman, www.comicmix.com. March 8, 2010.

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• Don't call me an icon. I'm just a mother trying to help.

  Princess Diana

  Mother, Names, Trying

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• I can look back at it now as definitely like an initiation into adulthood. Almost overnight in the NFL, I was put on a pedestal and I was supposed to be this icon or this image of what a professional athlete was supposed to be. I felt like I just got stuck trying to be someone else and I forgot who I actually was.

  Ricky Williams

  Athlete, Nfl, Trying

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