Icons Quotes - Page 9

• I make music as good as possible, but I do reference cultural icons, because I want my music to be a time capsule of 2007.

  Kanye West

  Want, Time Capsules

  Source: djbooth.net

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• When I think back to my influences and icons musically, they were my icons musically because, for example, I would look at Rakim and be like man he said the freshest things and then I look at him and he would have on the pair of Nikes that I wanted and I'm like, "ma' please!" It was everything. Now, I sort of feel like if you are fresh then your music doesn't have to be that good because people are so keyed into the fashion. That's just the times I guess.

  Pusha T

  Nike, Fashion, Men

  Source: theneptunes.org

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• I'm listening to a lot of oldies.A lot of Al Green, Marvin Gaye. Luther Vandross... they were some of my icons.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Listening, Green, Als

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• It's a little premature to be claiming that this is a done deal, but certainly Rex Tillerson is American icon and businessman that I think is a pretty incredible guy.

  Reince Priebus

  Thinking, Guy, Littles

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Celebrities were quick to understand that paparazzi could make icons of them. The more a star is followed and admired, the greater the adulation. So they raised the stakes, sometimes hiding when they don't even need to. Today, stardom is more ephemeral and it's photography that gives them their celebrity status.

  Ron Galella

  Photography, Stars, Giving

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• Every photograph is the result of a physical imprint transferred by light reflections onto a sensitive surface. The photograph is thus a type of icon, or visual likeness, which bears an indexical relationship to its object.

  Rosalind E. Krauss

  Reflection, Light, Bears

  Rosalind E. Krauss (1986). “The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths”, p.203, MIT Press

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• On this side of the Atlantic, the arrival of a new Woody Allen movie is always greeted with tremors of bliss by filmgoers past the age of 60, with mild curiosity by those in their 50s, with trepidation by those in their 40s, with fear and loathing by those in their 30s, and with complete indifference by anyone younger. An icon to baby boomers, who will never concede that when something is over, it is really over (Clapton, McCartney, Santana, the 1960s), Allen has not made a truly memorable film since Bullets On Broadway back in 1994.

  Joe Queenan

  Baby, Memorable, Past

  "Proles in a pickle" by Joe Queenan, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2006.

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• We must shine with hope, stained glass windows that shape light into icons, glow like lanterns borne before a procession. Who can bear hope back into the world but us.

  Marge Piercy

  Glasses, Light, Shining

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• One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.

  Criss Angel

  Art, Inspiration, Cells

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• Start by putting yourself in your users' shoes. Why are they coming to your site? If you look at most Web sites, you'd presume that the answer is "User is extremely bored and wishes to stare at a blank screen for several minutes while a flashing icon loads, then stare at the flashing icon for a few more minutes."

  Philip Greenspun

  Shoes, Bored, Wish

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• There are beauty icons that I can never be like, sorta like a Gena Rowlands - I'll never have that look. I love Giulietta Masina, the great Fellini actress. But I'm probably more Seymour Cassel. Or somewhere between Lou Reed and Nora Ephron?

  Natasha Lyonne

  Looks, Actresses, Reeds

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• I'm not Welsh and I didn't know that much about Dylan Thomas , and I saw that he's a huge icon of Welsh-ness.

  Tom Hollander

  Saws, Dylan, Welsh

  Source: collider.com

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• Imagine the first Burmese "giraffe woman"; she was probably a local icon in her village in the way she put the rings around her neck to sell her craft. Then she became a celebrity, so all of the wannabes started following her in that uncomfortable and unhealthy trend. But is that so different from Pamela Anderson? I don't think so.

  Noma Bar

  Thinking, Different, Village

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• I live opposite an amazing wood in London, and you can usually find me sitting there for hours and sketching. Sometimes the icon or symbol leads me to the face, but usually it's the other way around.

  Noma Bar

  Opposites, Sketching, Sitting

  Interview with Drew Dernavich, www.newyorker.com. September 17, 2008.

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• Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.

  Margaret Atwood

  Country, Canada, Balloons

  "Margaret Atwood interview: 'Go three days without water and you don't have any human rights. Why? Because you're dead'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2010.

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• When you look at me you don't immediately imagine a very very glamorous icon, so it's only in the theater that I get to do these experiments. I've been an actor about 51 years now. I've played everything from an 8-year-old black boy to a 72-year-old French matriarch, and they hardly hire you to do that on TV.

  Tyne Daly

  Boys, Years, Black

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• I think in general, people look at all Olympic athletes, look at all superstar athletes, and they say, "Okay, this guy doesn't have any insecurities." They're almost like these icons who - I don't know how to say it, but like they can't make mistakes. But the reality is, and I'll tell you this firsthand, a lot of great athletes have a lot of insecurities, and they have a really hard time dealing with a lot of so-called losing or however you want to classify it.

  Apolo Ohno

  Mistake, Athlete, Hard Times

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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• 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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• 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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• Someone who I would consider an ultimate beauty and style icon would be Jennifer Lopez. She is absolutely ageless, and she has reinvented herself so many times throughout the years and yet is absolutely flawless and stays true to herself.

  Tamera Mowry

  Years, Style, Would Be

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I like all the old-fashioned icons. My friends are artists, so they make me up to look like certain people. I am more inspired by people like Jane Fonda or Brigitte Bardot - people who did something as activists.

  Pamela Anderson

  Artist, People, Looks

  "Pamela Anderson Loves Miley, Has No Opinion on the "Car-Crashians"". Interview with Corinn Jackson, www.elle.com. December 14, 2015.

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• The best thing about it is that she [Sophia Loren] is the most normal person, and I have the utmost admiration and love for her. I know that she is an icon and an absolute legend, but as a family member, the most beautiful thing is that she is really, really normal.

  Sasha Alexander

  Beautiful, Legends, Normal

  Source: collider.com

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• I like the fact that we're stripping the icons away. They're the WikiLeaks for the age that we're revealing, with the transparency of the characters. We're unearthing the truth beyond or underneath the myth. I love that aspect.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Character, Age, Wikileaks

  "Joseph Fiennes, Tamsin Egerton & Exec. Producer Chris Chibnall Interview CAMELOT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 1, 2011.

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• My style icons would be people like Brigitte Bardot and old Hollywood actresses who always look so stunning, cool and chic. I like classic and timeless looks.

  Jessica Brown Findlay

  People, Style, Hollywood

  "Albatross's Jessica Brown Findlay Talks Style & Kate Middleton: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW". Grazia Daily Interview, sg.news.yahoo.com. February 7, 2012.

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