The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If you have to run away from something that used to be an idol, you're actually still enslaved by it. It's still… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Your most bitter enemies are the values imposed on you without your choice. Those idols have taken away your freedom from you;… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
I'm just happy that 'Idol' producers gave me a shot on the show and to be able to show who I really… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
I always wear rings and cuffs from Made Her Think because designer Meredith Kahn is my friend and is one of my… — Jessie Baylin Copy Share Image
The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Being on the road, the Internet enables me to interact with people in some way. It's not so much interacting with my… — Lily Allen Copy Share Image
I mean, I take that with the biggest amount of pride there could possibly be because I have so many idols of… — Kim Zmeskal Copy Share Image
Eliminate mental muddiness and obscurity; keep your mind crystal clear. Allow your pure original insight to emerge. Quiet your emotions and abide… — Laozi Copy Share Image
An absolute and unlimited right over any object of property would be the right to commit nearly every crime.If Ihad sucha right… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I´d read fantasy if they had simple names like Jane and Bob from Wagga," I say. "Why does it have to be… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
There is a denial of the value of the individual. Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it. The… — Clement Attlee Copy Share Image
“I shut my eyes and concentrated on the sun, and on feeling it warm my skin. On pleasure. Hedon. The Greek god.… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
[My son] Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
This is my first week as an American citizen. It's amazing. Now I can vote in the general election- and for American… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Whitney Houston is my idol and my mentor and my dream forever, like she will always be my favorite artist, ever, on… — Brandy Norwood Copy Share Image
If we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol, made not with hands but with thoughts; and an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
As a player I had a few idols but that's not really interesting any more. I was a striker and focusing on… — Ralph Hasenhuttl Copy Share Image
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… — Paul Dalio Copy Share Image
I'm not unattractive, but I'm not a matinee idol. I think I have a very non-threatening look - I'm fine, I'm right… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Consider, it is impossible that your idol sins and you can go to heaven together; and that those who will not part… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
I turned down many chances to be on TV before 'Pop Idol' because I really wasn't interested in being famous. I didn't… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
How many watched the President's speech last night? [half-hearted audience applause] How many watched American Idol ? [thundering applause] Okay, there you… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I think America did a great job. I think Carrie Underwood fits the bill of American Idol. She's a wonderful girl, and… — Bo Bice Copy Share Image
The local painters were my idols...These artists, too, were grown-ups, but they were grown-ups who could still see! Their eye was still… — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
Maybe not as an idol, but I have influenced some people, including my son Joshua. So that feels good. Wherever I play… — Dewey Redman Copy Share Image
This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
When I watched American Idol, I always thought Simon was the most realistic. Simon's like, It was absolutely horrid. That's what they… — Toni Braxton Copy Share Image
A celebrity is a person known for his well-knownness. Celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by being well known for relations among… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
American Idol' is a $900 million-a-year corporation. When you are dealing with that, you can't come off with lies - it's either… — Corey Clark Copy Share Image
It's easy to say that reducing a song to 90 seconds on "American Idol" strips off so many things, and how it's… — Alan Light Copy Share Image
We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“But vilifying those we love always alienates us from them to a certain extent. Idols should not be touched: the gilding comes… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
In my pantheon of comedy idols there's maybe six people: Lisa Kudrow, Conan O'Brian, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Martin Short. Lisa is at the… — Mae Martin Copy Share Image
![“[My son] Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives.” quote by Cindy Sheehan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/701/cindy-sheehan-4928_american-idol_my-son-casey-died-for-a-country-which-ca_1485381.jpg)
![“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.” quote by Paul Dalio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/567/paul-dalio-29897_delving_fellini-was-david-lynch-s-master-and-his_2223308.jpg)
![“How many watched the President's speech last night? [half-hearted audience applause] How many watched American Idol ? [thundering applause] Okay, there you go! You get the government you deserve.” quote by Jay Leno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bcd/jay-leno-210_american-idol_how-many-watched-the-president-s-speech_2729344.jpg)
![“This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a destructive impulse in her presence?” quote by Mary McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/97d/mary-mccarthy-2691_clay_this-grossly-advertised-wonder-venice-th_933398.jpg)
