Idols Quotes - Page 6

• I'm cute - and God I hate that. Because that's not cool. I'm like your niece, and nobody wants to date their niece. It's the chubby cheeks. The whole reason people voted for me on American Idol is because I'm an everyday, normal girl.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Cute, Girl, Niece

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• It's great to get to work with your idols.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Source: collider.com

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• To hell with the future. It's a man-eating idol.

  Ivan Illich

  Men, Hell, Eating

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• Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.

  William Stringfellow

  Money, Lawyer, Sin

  William Stringfellow (2006). “Dissenter in a Great Society: A Christian View of America in Crisis”, p.40, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.

  Elizabeth A. Johnson

  Metaphor, Shows

  Elizabeth A. Johnson (2011). “Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God”, p.26, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.

  Rick Springfield

  Teenager, Marketing, Records

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• If we had to choose one American Idol to go out to dinner with, it would be Fantasia. There are no airs and graces about her. ... I like her.

  Simon Cowell

  Air, Grace, Would Be

  "'Idol' Judges: Fantasia Our Favorite". www.foxnews.com. October 7, 2005.

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• I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.

  Megan Martha White

  Want, Autobiography, Knows

  "The sweetheart deal". Interview with Keith Cameron, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2003.

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• When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didnt have time to think.

  Namie Amuro

  Thinking, Time To Think

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• Even though James Burton was my idol, I didn't think I could carry his shoes back then.

  John Fogerty

  Thinking, Shoes

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• I don't care what stage or what reason, as long as we're playing.

  Billy Idol

  Long, Care, Reason

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The one who doesn't fall doesn't stand up. It happens that I was made kind of an idol. Everybody loses. That happens. I'm a normal human being, as are all of us. If it is God's will, the next fight I'll win... No pressure at all. There is some relief because tomorrow I will go back home.

  Fedor Emelianenko

  Fall, Home, Fighting

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• My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.

  Magic Johnson

  Jobs, Father, Home

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Mean, Ideas

  "Erica Jong talks sex at 73". Interview With Danielle Berrin, jewishjournal.com. October 15, 2015.

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• The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

  Adam Lambert

  Taken, Work Out, Risk

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• There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.

  Adam Lambert

  Order, Pageantry, Levels

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• The Beatles never sounded intimidated by their idols. They never interpreted old rock; they simply played it as well and as joyfully as they knew how. On 'Rock 'n' Roll,' John Lennon does nothing but interpret old rock.

  Jon Landau

  Rocks, Doe, Rock N Roll

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• If I was ever a teen idol, I’d kill myself.

  Jared Leto

  Ifs

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• Turn to yourselves rather than to your Gods or to your idols. Find what hides in yourselves; bring it to the light; show yourselves!

  Hakim Bey

  Light, Shows, Turns

  Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.146, Autonomedia

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• So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Kings, Spring

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• Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Smell, Mad, Monsters

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.105, Penguin

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• Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

  Will Rogers

  Inspiration, Profession

  Newspaper article, 15 Feb. 1925, in Paula McSpadden Grove The Will Rogers Book (1961) p. 193

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• Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall.

  Bob Dylan

  Fall, Fire, Rewards

  Song: Changing of The Guards, Album: Street Legal, 1978

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• Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Book

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekanand's Chicago Speech: Swami Vivekananda’s Speech At World Parliament Of Religion, Chicago”, p.15, editionNEXT.com

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• You sounded like Dolly parton on helium." (After kristy lee cook of season 7 on american idol,sang her country rendition of the Beatles'"Eight Days A Week.)

  Simon Cowell

  Country, Eight, Week

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