"Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential"
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"Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars."
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"Americans have been dumbed down to the point where more people watching 'American Idol' than listen to the state of the union address. And that's too bad. I'm not trying to take any bread out of the mouth of Simon Cowell, but if the president is speaking to the people of the United States, and people are going to watch 'American Idol,' that's sad."
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"If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy."
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"Men are idol factories."
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"The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols."
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"When you worship an idol, you're substituting a thing for the ultimate."
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"After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one."
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"We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship."
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"Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name."
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"Money isn't an idol. It just shows you where your idols are."
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"Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols."
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"Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?"
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"The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation."
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"I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives."
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"Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own."
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"The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed."
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"If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol."
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"Power, approval, comfort, and control are meta-idols that hold sway over our daily lives."
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"If you have to run away from something that used to be an idol, you're actually still enslaved by it. It's still controlling you."
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