Albert Einstein
Physicist
"Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized."
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Idols
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AJ Lee
Professional Wrestler
"I don’t want to do what my idols did… I want to do more than they did. And I feel like I’m on my way."
Jim Morrison
Musician, Poet
"Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead."
John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols."
Kevin Bacon
Actor
"I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50."
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"These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again."
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"My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol."
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"Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?"
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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, and sold my Reputation for a Song."
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"Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain."
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"For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols"
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"There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money."
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"Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate."
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"If there are some who talk the same language as myself, then why should I neglect their interests for the sake of some other group of people who are alien and remote? They have their own 'gods and idols' and we have nothing in common. ... If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money."
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"What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous."
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"The test of having ceased to be an idolater is: "When you say 'I', does the body come into your thought or not? If it does, then you are still a worshipper of idols.""
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"How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen."
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"The Human heart is an idol factory."
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"When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God's."
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"Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice."
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"I've never seen American Idol but I am grateful to them. That show is one of Fox's biggest moneymakers, and some of that money goes to pay for shows like Prison Break. Simon Cowell's been signing my paychecks and for that I say thanks."
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"The idol is the expression of religion."
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"I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people."
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"I remember one guy, Reg Park, a British bodybuilder, who entered Mr Universe when he was very young. But he won it and continued to win it a second and third time. So, he was my idol. I read everything about Reg Park and followed his footsteps and trained like him. I said if he could make it, I could make it. It was a blueprint, basically, for how to get there, to win the championships."
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"Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god."
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