Idols Quotes
472 Idols quotes by 372 unique authors
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I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.
— Jack Klugman
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It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have…
— Lesley Garrett
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My idol was Jack Benny and he was the master of subtlety and timing.
— Don Knotts
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When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.
— Lorna Luft
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American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.
— Diane Sawyer
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Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.
— Samuel Rutherford
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Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And…
— Paula Abdul
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I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like…
— Fantasia Barrino
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I definitely wanted to be an actor. I didn't want to be on TV, I didn't want to be famous, I didn't want to be…
— Lauren Graham
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of…
— LaToya London
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The idol is the measure of the worshipper.
— James Russell Lowell
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What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for freedom. I had…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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The Bible becomes a dead idol when we call the words between its covers inerrant, infallible, to be taken literally. This is not a dead…
— Mel White
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Like the people of Israel who created a golden calf to represent God while Moses was away, fundamentalist Christians have built their own idols to…
— Mel White
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It's easy to get attached to idols, good things inappropriately adored. But when you have Jesus in the centre of a room, everything else only…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Damn all false antitheses to hell, for they generate false gods, they perpetuate idols, they twist and distort our souls, they launch the church into…
— D. A. Carson
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Indeed the Idols I have loved so long, have done my credit in this World much wrong; have drowned my Glory in a shallow Cup,…
— Omar Khayyam
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present…
— Imelda Staunton
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Lynn Swann was an idol. It would amaze me how he could fly through the air and make those catches. I'll never forget the one…
— Jerry Rice
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Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has confessed that until recently, he thought the 16-year-old fellow tween idol [Justin Bieber] was a female. 'I only heard…
— Daniel Radcliffe
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You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to.
— Philip K. Dick
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I was 19 when I first auditioned for 'American Idol.' I'd never been on an airplane; I'd never been outside of my hometown, except to…
— Kellie Pickler
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I want to be acknowledged as not just a pretty idol who sings and dances on stage, but as an artist
— Choi Soo-young
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My idol was always Tomas Rosicky. He used to be phenomenal. He had such a good eye for an opening and knew where his team-mates…
— Marco Reus
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It was never something I had in my mind to do – a show on Nickelodeon, let alone being consider a teen idol. It’s odd.…
— Logan Henderson
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