Icons Quotes - Page 7

• Being an icon is overrated, remember an icon can be moved by a mouse

  William Shatner

  Remember, Mice, Overrated

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• We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely religious. Indeed we have witnessed . . . the 'iconization' of the life of Jesus: 'This is a Jesus of hieratic, stereotyped gestures, all representing theological themes. In this way, the life of Jesus is no longer a human life, submerged in history, but a theological life -- an icon.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Religious, Jesus, Political

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• I’m a false icon! The media collaborate in promoting my superficial lifestyle as somehow more valid, more worthy of attention than your real lives! - Gideon Stargrave

  Grant Morrison

  Real, Media, Gideon

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• To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.

  David Foster Wallace

  Communication, People, Incapable

  David Foster Wallace (2005). “Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays”, p.157, Hachette UK

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• During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Lying, Class, Names

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• Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But if that's their purpose, they can keep their paltry icons. We need only look up if we wish to feel small.

  Carl Sagan

  Ideas, Wish, Needs

  Carl Sagan (2006). “The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God”, p.48, Penguin

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• Many aspects of our screen-bound lives are bad for our social skills simply because we get accustomed to controlling the information that comes in, managing our relationships electronically, deleting stuff that doesn't interest us. We edit the world; we select from menus; we pick and choose; our social 'group' focuses on us and disintegrates without us. This makes it rather confusing for us when we step outdoors and discover that other people's behaviour can't be deleted with a simple one-stroke command or dragged to the trash icon.

  Lynne Truss

  Simple, Skills, People

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• Christianity taught us to see the eye of the lord looking down upon us. Such forms of knowledge project an image of reality, at the expense of reality itself. They talk figures and icons and signs, but fail to perceive forces and flows. They bind us to other realities, and especially the reality of power as it subjugates us. Their function is to tame, and the result is the fabrication of docile and obedient subjects.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Eye, Reality, Taught Us

  Gilles Deleuze, FeÌl?ix Guattari (2004). “Anti-Oedipus”, p.22, A&C Black

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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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• I'm creative because I did an icon navigation while everyone else on the planet sticks to words? No, it just means I didn't want to stick to convention. If anything you can call it rebellious but certainly not creative.

  Paul Scriven

  Mean, Design, Creative

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• True interactivity is not about clicking on icons or downloading files, it's about encouraging communication.

  Edwin Schlossberg

  Communication, Design, Files

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• [F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably Tory, slavishly conformist Beckham. The Reds are no longer the Bolsheviks. Nobody serious about political change can shirk the fact that the game has to be abolished. And any political outfit that tried it on would have about as much chance of power as the chief executive of BP has in taking over from Oprah Winfrey.

  Terry Eagleton

  Soccer, Football, Games

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• I am not an icon of democracy. You are all, collectively, the icon of democracy.

  Corazon Aquino

  Democracy

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• A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes.

  Tom Robbins

  Spiritual, Food, Circles

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.66, Bantam

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• America has lost an icon. Ronald Reagan's leadership will inspire Americans for generations to come. His patriotism and devotion to our country will never be forgotten.

  Tom Daschle

  Country, America, Inspire

  "Quotes: A Nation Reacts", www.foxnews.com. June 6, 2004.

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• American culture has a lot of great moustaches in its history. Mark Twain had a great moustache, Charlie Chaplin, Ben Turpin ... but Zappa, he's got the best moustache in American history. Got the moustache, right, and he's got that little thing on his chin, I think it's called an imperial, that is, like, the coolest thing. That's like one of the great icons of the twentieth century.

  Matt Groening

  Thinking, Culture, Littles

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• Elizabeth Taylor is one of the great cultural icons. She is a part of our history and should be celebrated.… This presentation is very special for the community, there are so many people who want to understand this side of Elizabeth Taylor.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  People, Community, Special

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• The greatest business icons-it's not that they were worth hundreds of millions, or billions or trillions of dollars, it's that they moved society forward.

  Donny Deutsch

  Dollars, Billions, Moved

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• I never thought that Spider-Man would become the world wide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I'd keep my job.

  Stan Lee

  Jobs, Book, Men

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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 see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.

  Cam Newton

  Football, Player, Entertainers

  Sports Illustrated Interview, www.theguardian.com. December 27, 2011.

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• My style icon is anyone who makes a bloody effort

  Isabella Blow

  Effort, Style, Bloody

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• This is so cliche, but my beauty icon would have to be Angelina Jolie. She looks like she wears natural makeup, but she's still beautiful.

  Tila Tequila

  Beautiful, Makeup, Looks

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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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