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I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence. -- Ayrton Senna
Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols. -- John Calvin
We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so. -- B. B. King
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. -- Pope John Paul II
We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder -- Pope Gregory I
We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder -- Pope Gregory I
Idols are often good things that we have made into ultimate things. -- Timothy Keller
Idols tend to be good things that you have turned into god things, which therefore become bad things -- Mark Driscoll
Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God -- Elyse Fitzpatrick
Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood. -- Swami Vivekananda
We have strayed from the Immortal's ways And worship with a dull and senseless mind Idols, the workmanship of our own hands, And images and figures of dead men. -- Justin Martyr
Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption, or what Bacon calls the reign of the Idols. -- Marshall McLuhan
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. -- Omar Khayyam
Everybody is a teenage idol. -- Barry Gibb
American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything. -- Carrie Underwood
I try to reach out to my idols. -- Thia Megia
The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols. -- Brian Wilson
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar. -- Leif Garrett
If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can. -- Billy Idol
I think American Idol is a great career launcher. A blessing for all of us. -- LaToya London
I enjoy watching Fear Factor, Newlyweds and American Idol as far as reality TV shows go. -- Natalie Gulbis
We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place. -- Douglas Coupland
An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple. -- Chanakya
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol. -- Rabindranath Tagore
I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him. -- Jack Klugman
As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol. -- A. B. Simpson
My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture. -- Natalie Cole
I think I find new idols every day - someone that says something really inspiring, is successful, has character. -- Miranda Lambert
I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people. -- Marilyn Monroe
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. -- Friedrich Schiller
A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol. -- Jack Dempsey
Those who use tobacco, tea and coffee should lay these idols aside, and put their cost into the treasury of the Lord. -- Ellen G. White
It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols. -- Meg Ryan
When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol. -- Namie Amuro
As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth. -- Dita Von Teese
Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives. -- Pope Francis
The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film idols. -- Hugh Hefner
It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that. -- Lesley Garrett
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. -- Timothy Keller
At the time, the only options were playing the local county fair. Now with American Idol and younger recording artists that have come out, there is more of an opportunity. -- Marla Sokoloff
Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists. -- Paula Abdul
I do have a memo all the time because I need to be guided by something in my life. I'm not religious and I don't have idols, so something has to drive me. -- Marina and the Diamonds
All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them. -- Simone de Beauvoir
I started going to Madame Louise's, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go - the Sex Pistols, the Clash. I remember seeing Billy Idol walk in there; he was gorgeous. -- Boy George
I've met so many of my idols, but the one person that has eluded me is Bono. But because he's done 'Spider-Man,' I keep thinking maybe, through a Broadway connection, somehow our paths will eventually merge. -- Idina Menzel
Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve. -- Hernan Cortes
You know, when President Reagan, who was one of my idols, granted amnesty to about three million illegal immigrants it was based on the fact that the borders would be secured. That didn't happen. It didn't happen during the Bush administration. -- Jan Brewer
The thing is that my idols have always been the types of guys who could do anything: Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Sinatra, Dean Martin; and when you look up to people like that, you don't accept that you need to be compartmentalised. -- Justin Timberlake
This is the deal: we are happy to single out people as superior just as long as they don't accept the description themselves. We want heroes and idols, but we also want egalitarianism, and that requires proclamations of humility from our gods. -- Julian Baggini
I really love the Olympics: Daley Thompson's back-flip, Derek Redmond's father helping him finish the 400m after his hamstring snapped at the 1992 Games in Barcelona, Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson, Sir Steve Redgrave - childhood memories are flooded with these moments and idols. -- Giles Duley
It's good for Brazilian football to have idols, stars, big stars coming back to Brazilian clubs. The tournaments become much better, more interesting. Ze Roberto, Juninho Pernambucano, Ronaldinho Gaucho, and other players who have returned to Brazil strengthen the league and improve the tournaments. -- Neymar
I have a lot of feminist idols. My favorite thing about growing up in Arkansas - well, not favorite but something I've always felt grateful for - was that I really had to dig for what I could. There was no Internet. There wasn't tons of feminist literature floating around. -- Beth Ditto
Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so seductive; but aesthetic experience itself degenerates into a kind of fetish or idol if it is held up as an end in itself, untested by the rest of life. -- Roger Kimball
Dead metaphors make strong idols. -- Marcia Falk
My idols are all older. -- Kelly Lynch
Code writers, they are my idols. -- will.i.am
A country without idols is nothing. -- Roberto Clemente
Even our pets can become idols. -- Billy Graham
Concepts create idols; only wonder understands anything. -- Gregory of Nyssa
Work until your idols become your rivals -- G-Dragon
To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences. -- Nancy Pearcey
God is worshipped only inpictures, images, idols. -- Sathya Sai Baba
As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols. -- Elizabeth A. Johnson
It's great to get to work with your idols. -- Joel Kinnaman
I don't have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no. -- Rafael Nadal
It is strange what society will endure from its idols. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
A Christian is someone who has turned to God from idols. -- Billy Graham
Idolatry is really not good for anyone. Not even the idols. -- John Bach
Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols. -- John Calvin
Never had any idols, ever. I never had any posters, nothing. -- Mika
Freedom from Egypt should have meant freedom from idols for Israel. -- Jud Wilhite
For Silicon Valley and its idols, innovation is the new selfishness. -- Evgeny Morozov
Money isn't an idol. It just shows you where your idols are. -- Timothy Keller
Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols. -- Morris Raphael Cohen
As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula. -- Bobby Sherman
Love ... is a sacred fire that must not be burnt to idols. -- Geraldine Jewsbury
Growing up, my idols were Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper. And Scottie Pippen. -- Dirk Nowitzki
Beware of your dreams. They can become misplaced lovers. They can become idols. -- Phil Vischer
Twilight of the idols, it cursed from the worship of the extinguished candles. -- Kristian Goldmund Aumann
It's so rare that you meet your idols and they outdo your expectations. -- Drew Goddard
Concepts create idols of God, of whom only wonder can tell us anything. -- Gregory of Nyssa
We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands. -- Gustave Flaubert
In my heart, I know I'm just as talented as some of my idols. -- Donnis
Power, approval, comfort, and control are meta-idols that hold sway over our daily lives. -- Timothy Keller
My idols have always stuck to their guns and said what they want to do. -- Richard Patrick
Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I've had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me. -- Kevin Corrigan
My idols are Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Keaton, John Goodman. Maybe that's what I want for me. -- Breckin Meyer
Guard against idols -- yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself. -- Alexandra David-Neel
We're just like you. Were not these older idols, you know, were just kids like you guys. -- Brendon Urie
No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me. -- Shirley Manson
The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation. -- John Ortberg
In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch. -- Andres Iniesta
It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good. -- Megan Martha White
It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good. -- Megan Martha White
Today, idols are not made of wood, stone, or brass. They are made of money, sex, and power. -- Peter Kreeft
Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love. -- Hildegard Knef
The gospel has supernatural versatility to address the particular hopes, fears, and idols of every culture and every person. -- Timothy Keller
Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes. -- Mark Twain
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood -- George Bernard Shaw
When I was young, I had idols that I thought were wonderful. I wanted to be just like them. -- PJ Harvey
How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen. -- Isaac Watts
Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees. -- Gregory of Nyssa
How many more idols must you find before you realize that you are the one you have been searching for? -- Dan Fogelberg
People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise. -- Karen Kingsbury
In terms of idols which represented various gods: worshipping an idol or star cluster is no different than worshipping a concept. -- Thomas Daniel Nehrer
We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods. -- Friedrich Schiller
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them. -- Martial
The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols. -- John Calvin
Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist. -- Morris Raphael Cohen
Most of the sacrifices involved tearing out the heart, offering it to the sun and, with some blood, also to the idols -- Michael Harner
Modern idols or false gods can take such forms as clothes, homes, businesses, machines, automobiles, pleasure boats, and numerous other material deflectors... -- Spencer W. Kimball
The idols of today are unmistakable - self-esteem without achievement, sex without consequences, wealth without responsibility, pleasure without struggle and experience without commitment. -- Jonathan Sacks
The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food. -- Clifton Fadiman
I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives. -- Desmond Tutu
In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression. -- Jean Paul

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