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Marilyn Monroe Actress, Model
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"Hollywood parties not only confuse me, but they often disillusion me. The disillusion comes when I meet a movie star I’ve been admiring since childhood. I always thought that movie stars were exciting and talented people full of special personality. Meeting one of them at a party I discover usually that he (or she) is colorless and even frightened. I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people."

Stars Party Idols
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"I have never heard of anyone who was a "model person" in all aspects of his or her life, intellectual life or other aspects; nor do I see why anyone should care. We are not engaged in idol worship, after all."

Care Intellectual Idols
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Jean Paul Writer
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"In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression."

Science Moral Idols
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Honore de Balzac Novelist
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"All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept."

Want Noble Idols
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"One of my favorite people I got to meet was my childhood idol, Vincent Price. I got to not only meet him, but become friendly with him before he passed away."

People Childhood Idols
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Charles Dickens Novelist
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"One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust . . . you no sooner set up an idol firmly, than you are sure to pull it down and dash it into fragments: and this because directly you reward a benefactor, or a public servant, you distrust him, merely because he is rewarded . . . . Any man who attains a high place among you, from the President downwards, may date his downfall from that moment."

Men America Idols
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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
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"Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall."

Fall Fire Idols
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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer
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"Music has always helped my films. In 'The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion,' you can hear 'Sunrise' by Glenn Miller, an idol of my childhood, in the surprise ending. I like mixing comedy with suspense and action."

Childhood Idols Sunrise
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Van Morrison Singer-Songwriter
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"I'll tell you what does impress me: the fact that a lot of the cats who were our idols are still out there doing it. That impresses me very much."

Doe Cat Idols
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Timothy Keller Pastor, Author
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"[T]he main problem in life is sin, and the only solution is God and his grace. The alternative to this view is to identify something besides sin as the main problem with the world and something besides God as the main remedy. That demonizes something that is not completely bad, and makes an idol out of something that cannot be the ultimate good."

Views Grace Idols
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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
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"A lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of the good an idol - is open to the charge of being still caught within the dialectic of idolatry. I've made a moral criticism of my moral consciousness. Meta-idolatry."

Discovery Idols Lust
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