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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."
"The idol is the expression of religion."
"I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people."
"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."
"Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god."
"We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry."
"It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive."
"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 violent pendulum swings who oscillations succeed only in dividing brothers and sisters in Christ"
"The Hebrews took for their idol, not something made of metal or wood, but a race, a nation, something just as earthly. Their religion is essentially inseparable from such idolatry, because of the notion of the 'chosen people'."
"You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration"
"The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow."
"Code writers, they are my idols."
"No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn't be able to decide which book or which idol or which city was the truly holy one. Thus, the only thing that should be upheld at all costs and without qualification is the right of free expression, because if that goes, then so do all other claims of right as well."
"Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more."
"Eliminate mental muddiness and obscurity; keep your mind crystal clear. Allow your pure original insight to emerge. Quiet your emotions and abide in serenity. Don't go crazy with the worship of idols, images, and ideas; this is like putting a new head on top of the head you already have. Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear."
"Casting aspersions on those we love always does something to loosen our ties. We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands."
"There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my "evil eye" for this world, which is also my "evil ear"."
"Someone like Billie Jean King is completely my idol."
"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood"
"The idol is the measure of the worshipper."
