Deify Quotes
12 quotes by 11 authors
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The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate…
— Timothy Keller
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Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius.…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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North Korea invites parody. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. But consider that their indoctrination began in…
— Barbara Demick
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I have to seek God beauty. Because isn't my internal circuitry wired to seek out something worthy of worship? . True Beauty worship, worship of…
— Ann Voskamp
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To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.
— Guillaume Apollinaire
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Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look to it with…
— Timothy Keller
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If there is one tendency of the day which more than any other is unhealthy and undesirable, it is the tendency to deify mere "smartness,"…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Be careful who you choose as your hero or who you choose to deify, be it Clay Aiken or Barack Obama. You put all you're…
— Craig Ferguson
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Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear--civilization's fear of nature, men's fear of women,…
— Arundhati Roy
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When a father of a daughter dies, you elevate them. And you sort of deify them.
— Mariella Frostrup
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I don't look at myself as a role model. I would never place myself on that pedestal, obviously. If other people want to place me…
— Daniel Radcliffe
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There's no royalty in America, so people deify actors.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Who Wrote These Deify Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 12 Deify Quotes as follows: