Icons Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• All I want to do is be a gay icon. I was reading Lady Gaga's twitter, because she has like 12 million followers, or something like that. I feel like she has fans, gay, straight, bi, who would throw themselves off a building for her.

  Mindy Kaling

  Reading, Gay, Fans

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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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• 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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• 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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• My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He was a kind of immigrant success story, a refugee success story.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Father, Years, Germany

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Like most Americans, I live in the line of fire of a shooting match that is going on over Reagan's legacy. It's between shrill and extremist voices who alternately conceive of him either as an icon of all that's great and good or a representative of everything that's gone wrong with this country. And obviously neither is the case. He is just a man.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Country, Men, Fire

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've decided to do what I want to do in life and follow my own path as an artist, so I've decided not to participate in any sort of nostalgia in which I'm marginalized as a pop icon of yesteryear.

  Thomas F. Wilson

  Artist, Yesteryear, Want

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

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• I have no doubt about a photographer in particular and a digital artist in general having become contemporary icons.

  Nikolay Semyonov

  Art, Doubt, Digital

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• For better or worse, we are the Court of Appeals for the Hollywood Circuit. Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights. But much of their livelihood - and much of the vibrancy of our culture - also depends on the existence of other intangible rights: The right to draw ideas from a rich and varied public domain, and the right to mock, for profit as well as fun, the cultural icons of our time.

  Alex Kozinski

  Fun, Law, Ideas

  "Vanna White V. Samsung Electronics". United States Court Of Appeals For The Ninth Circuit, 989 F.2d 1512, law2.umkc.edu. March 18, 1993.

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• We got email today from an LGF reader who was browsing the Lexis research system and discovered that anti-American, anti-capitalist icon Noam Chomsky has embarrassingly capitalist tastes; among other expensive property he owns a 36,155 square foot home near Cambridge, a 13,503 square foot vacation home, and four boats. And we won't even mention the cars. Teaching kids to hate their own country seems to pay quite well.

  Charles Foster Johnson

  Country, Hate, Teaching

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• Gisele Bundchen I always admired. I think she is an example for all models. If I could have just a little bit of her career would already be a happy girl. She seems to be a determined woman, a fighter, very strong. I think she is an icon of Brazilian people. Gisele is a woman who is extremely inspiring, not only in the fashion world, she also does great things for the world.

  Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

  Girl, Fashion, Strong

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• I respect Snoop even aside from the music, just as a man, and especially the way he still represents who he is, after being a pop star and an icon. He's done it successfully and has still been able to balance it.

  Nipsey Hussle

  Stars, Men, Balance

  Source: www.complex.com

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• An icon means nothing to me. I don't understand what it means to anybody actually. It seems like a word of convenience. It seems to attend to the huge success of certain kinds of movies that I did, but there's no personal utility in being an icon. I don't know what an icon does, except stand in a corner quietly accepting everyone's attention. I like to work, so there's no utility in being an icon.

  Harrison Ford

  Mean, Doe, Attention

  "Harrison Ford Talks ENDER’S GAME, Why It’s a Good Family Movie, the Evolution of Space Visual Effects Since STAR WARS, and More". Press conference, collider.com. October 27, 2013.

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• I object to the hypersexualization of all the superheroines. Most of them have been hypersexualized, but especially to Wonder Woman, because she is an icon. She is up there with Superman and Batman. And she is the one who is the big influence on women. Women who don't read comics still know who Wonder Woman is.

  Trina Robbins

  Wonder Woman, Influence, Bigs

  Interview with Kyrax2, comicsbulletin.com. May 7, 2012.

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• Eddie [Murphy] is an icon. He's one of the reason why I started doing comedy in the beginning. He opened a lot of doors for black people.

  Tracy Morgan

  Doors, People, Black

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Daphne Guinness, who makes couture seem wearable, is an icon who influences what I wear.

  Ashley Madekwe

  Influence, Couture, Guinness

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

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• Marilyn Monroe and Vivienne Leigh are real icons of mine. In terms of visual culture, they are both so iconic. There weren't any paparazzi shots of them falling out of taxis, so they will always look so incredible.

  Lily Cole

  Real, Fall, Culture

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

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• I didn't really know anything about Margot Fonteyn. I'd never really been a ballet child, so I had no idea what an incredibly huge icon she was, not just in terms of a creative icon - she was also a style icon. I had no idea she was up there with Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Onassis in terms of that kind of image.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Children, Ideas, Creative

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• When you compare the icons of the game, you have Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Sachin Tendulkar and Dhoni in the same bracket.

  Ravi Shastri

  Games, Dhoni, Tendulkar

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• The stiletto is the icon of erotic femininity. You're taller, thinner and curvier, all at the same time. What's not to like?

  Valerie Steele

  Shoes, Erotic, Stilettos

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• I dont want to be compared to Brad Pitt because I dont want to, you know, disappoint anybody. Brad Pitt is an icon.

  Chord Overstreet

  Want, Brad, Disappoint

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• A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult on it. My friend said, "Oh, my friend Gillian read it and really loved it." She goes, "Gillian Jacobs, you mean: Britta Perry, feminist icon?"

  Gillian Jacobs

  Mean, Feminist, Scripts

  "'Community': Alison Brie, Yvette Nicole Brown, Gillian Jacobs & Megan Ganz Roundtable". Interview with Jace Lacob, www.thedailybeast.com. February 28, 2012.

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