"I really would not call myself a fashion icon. I would call myself somebody who gets dressed by professionals...I would call me more of a monkey."
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"Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali."
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"The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player."
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"I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the Valley think of Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett as role models. We would love to be half as good as they were."
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"The superhero genre speaks to a vast swath of humanity these days, and studios are in the business of constantly renewing their money-printing licenses. I sense we're nearing a saturation point with some of these icons, where it becomes more about the action figures and Happy Meals than it does the mythological heartbeat of the core ideas."
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"To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people."
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"I object to the hypersexualization of all the superheroines. Most of them have been hypersexualized, but especially to Wonder Woman, because she is an icon. She is up there with Superman and Batman. And she is the one who is the big influence on women. Women who don't read comics still know who Wonder Woman is."
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"Today, the world lost a creative icon. Michelle and I join millions of fans from around the world in mourning the sudden death of Prince."
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"I don't think getting in and out of a limousine has anything to do with being an icon."
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"We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality."
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"Janet Jackson is an icon, I've been honored to meet her a few times, working with her would be amazing."
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"When you say cultural icon, I scrunch my nose."
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"A lot of my favorite artists are fashion icons."
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"I have started to realize that I am really just a world athlete and a world entertainer -- I am a world-known person, I am a global icon."
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"I can look back at it now as definitely like an initiation into adulthood. Almost overnight in the NFL, I was put on a pedestal and I was supposed to be this icon or this image of what a professional athlete was supposed to be. I felt like I just got stuck trying to be someone else and I forgot who I actually was."
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"The statement is that I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time."
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"I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though."
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"I make music as good as possible, but I do reference cultural icons, because I want my music to be a time capsule of 2007."
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"My occupation is assistant storyteller. It is not "icon.""
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"An icon means nothing to me. I don't understand what it means to anybody actually. It seems like a word of convenience. It seems to attend to the huge success of certain kinds of movies that I did, but there's no personal utility in being an icon. I don't know what an icon does, except stand in a corner quietly accepting everyone's attention. I like to work, so there's no utility in being an icon."
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