Idols Quotes - Page 18

• Fellini was [David] Lynch's master and his biggest idol, and he believed in Fellini's view that film is a dream, it's not reality. It's all about delving into the unconscious.

  Paul Dalio

  Dream, Reality, Views

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I have never heard of anyone who was a "model person" in all aspects of his or her life, intellectual life or other aspects; nor do I see why anyone should care. We are not engaged in idol worship, after all.

  Noam Chomsky

  Intellectual, Care, Idol Worship

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• I went to visit Frank Capra, one of my idols, and did a kind of Judd Apatow interview with him. I said, "I'd like the Statue of Liberty to disappear, but I want to do it as a lesson in freedom, how valuable freedom is and what the world would be like without liberty." And Frank Capra looked at me and said, "David, I love your idea, but here's what you're going to do. You're going to try and it's not going to work; it's not going to disappear." And I said, "Mr. Capra, I can't do that."

  David Copperfield

  Love You, Ideas, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was terrified of graduating college and not knowing what I was going to do. I saw the auditions for Idol and thought, Why not? I always liked to sing. You know when they asked, "Are you the next American Idol?" I said yes, but I didn't mean it.

  Carrie Underwood

  Mean, College, Knowing

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I've grown up a lot. I've become more independent. I can talk to my parents more like friends. When I was going to college, I was still only an hour away from them.Now, after Idol and touring all over the place, I feel like I have become a lot more independent.

  Carrie Underwood

  Independent, College, Parent

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I do want to pray for the Lord to glorify himself and, yes, I also will pray for an outpouring of his Spirit, but I also will rejoice in what he is doing now, and I will try to be a faithful steward of the gospel by preaching it "in season and out of season", as Paul reminds us. So I want to be careful not to make an idol out of revival, or to rely upon it to the point where I don't plan for evangelism.

  Mark Dever

  Rely Upon, Faithful, Trying

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• The Sufi saint Mazhar Jaan Jana of 18th century Delhi believed that the Quran condemns bowing before deities because in pre-Islamic idol worship stones were considered god. But Hindus pray to god through that idol, which is a reflection of god. In Vedas god is nirguna and nirankara, that is, he has no attributes and no shape, that is the real belief of Hindus. As Muslims visit graves, so Hindus worship idols.

  Asghar Ali Engineer

  Real, Islamic, Reflection

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I've never watched an entire episode of 'American Idol'. It's too mean.

  Christina Aguilera

  Mean, Episodes, American Idol

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• Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

  Dante Alighieri

  Blow, Wind, Names

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• What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

  Lord Byron

  People, Literature, Care

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• I turned down many chances to be on TV before 'Pop Idol' because I really wasn't interested in being famous. I didn't need it and didn't want it.

  Simon Cowell

  Needs, Want, Tvs

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• I've never bought a Dylan record. A singing poet? It just bores me to tears. I've got to tell you, if I had 10 Dylans in the final of 'American Idol,' we would not be getting 30 million viewers a week. I don't believe the Bob Dylans of this world would make 'American Idol 'a better show.

  Simon Cowell

  Believe, Singing, Tears

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• Someone like Billie Jean King is completely my idol.

  Serena Williams

  Kings

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• The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.

  Brian Wilson

  Rolling, Stones, Rolling Stones

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• Code writers, they are my idols.

  will.i.am

  Code

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This is the deal: we are happy to single out people as superior just as long as they don't accept the description themselves. We want heroes and idols but we also want egalitarianism and that requires proclamations of humility from our Gods.

  Julian Baggini

  Hero, Humility, Egalitarianism

  "'I feel so humble' - the common cry of heroes and villains" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2013.

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• It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns" (After Brooke White of season 7 on american idol sang the song 'Hero' by Mariah Carey)

  Simon Cowell

  Song, Hero, White

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• The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Degrees, Sticks, Fingers

  Gustave Flaubert, Geoffrey Wall (1992). “Madame Bovary: provincial lives”, Penguin USA

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• Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.

  John Calvin

  Men, Speak, Factories

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• I've been all different shapes and sizes in my lifetime. I started wearing shapewear as a teenager after I did 'Australian Idol.' I had a little tummy, and I was always really quite conscious of that.

  Ricki-Lee Coulter

  Teenager, Different, Shapes

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• Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Jesus, Army, Men

  "Campagnes d'Egypte et Syrie", Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, (p. 275), translated by John Tolan in "European Accounts of Muhammad's Life", 1998.

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• Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.

  Emily Dickinson

  Song, Wings, Bees

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.635, Harvard University Press

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• Well, we're just a couple of weeks from new President Barack Obama being sworn in. And he's been very busy naming a lot of cabinet positions. And today he announced that he wants the surgeon general to be TV Dr. Sanjay Gupta. That was the kid on 'American Idol,' wasn't it?

  David Letterman

  Couple, Kids, President

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• When the history of the 20th century is finally written, one of its key features will be the wanton slaughter of more than 170 million people, not in war, but by their own government. The governments that led in this slaughter are the former USSR (65 million) and the Peoples Republic of China (35-40 million). The point to remember is that these governments were the idols of America's leftists. Part of the reason for these and other tyrannical successes was because the people were first disarmed.

  Walter E. Williams

  War, America, Keys

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• Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential

  Gordon Brown

  People, Chance, Talent

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