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It is better to catch the idol-maker than to smash each idol. — Walter Lippmann

'American Idol' is the fast track to fame. I'm just lucky it worked out. I don't feel different. The way people react to me is different. — Crystal Bowersox

I never really had an idol. — Maria Sharapova

Cynicism leads to despair, while fixating on the efforts that seemed to work in the past makes an idol out of spiritual states. — Monks Of New Skete

Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability. — Douglas Wood

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar. — Leif Garrett

"American Idol" has done a lot for me. It's a stepping stone in my life. — Diana DeGarmo

If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration. — Robert Moses

But those guys (on 'Idol') will never be known for defining a generation of young suburbanites like (blink) did. — Tom DeLonge

Their son went to the idol-worshiping, uniform-wearing Catholic school, — Jeanne Ray

A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar. — St. Jerome

Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk. — Billy Idol

When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an autograph. — Ferran Adria

Patsy Cline is my favorite singer in the entire world - she is my idol. I adore her. — Nikki Blonsky

How are you gonna make an 'idol' from the type of person you're trying to avoid in real life? — Natasha Leggero

There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it. — Adam Lambert

When I was on 'Idol' and 17, everything was so new. Everyone is so nice and wants to see you succeed. — Jordin Sparks

Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all. — R.C. Sproul

When I was a teen idol, I was so goddamn pretty I wouldn't have taken myself seriously. — Rob Lowe

Dorothy Hamill was my big idol as a kid. She'd won the Olympics in 1976. She was America's sweetheart with her personality, her talent, her haircut. — Kristi Yamaguchi

American Idol allowed us to find Carrie Underwood. — Luke Bryan

I used to play the piano when I was younger, and I loved Alicia Keys. I wanted to be Alicia Keys; she was such an idol to me. — Katy B

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. — Friedrich Schiller

But I guess you would look beatific, too, if the man you had been in love with since the fifth grade had told you that he was in love with you, too. — Meg Cabot

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

I'm a huge fan of Billy Idol. I spiked my hair every day like him in 7th and 8th grade. — Dierks Bentley

Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion. — Criss Jami

If [American Idol] was the Olympics, I'd still get a medal. It was a great race. — Kimberley Locke

You're still my idol. — Manny Pacquiao

Bill Bennett really became an idol for me. I listened to him every morning from 6 to 9 for, oh, years. — Jonathan Krohn

In terms of idols which represented various gods: worshipping an idol or star cluster is no different than worshipping a concept. — Thomas Daniel Nehrer

When you worship an idol, you're substituting a thing for the ultimate. — Abigail Disney

I had been living as if there were no tomorrow, and had nearly made that a reality. — Billy Idol

I want to be acknowledged as not just a pretty idol who sings and dances on stage, but as an artist — Choi Soo-young

Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way? — Freddie Mercury

Democracy is just a false idol - a mere catchword and illusion of inferior classes, visionaries and dying civilizations. — H.P. Lovecraft

I think love's exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad. — Billy Idol

Dex has always had an aura of cool about him but right now he could be just about any dork drooling over his idol. What a twatwaffle. — Karina Halle

For the past two years, the only thing the 'Idol' machine has been doing has been maliciously attacking my name. — Corey Clark

I don't care what stage or what reason, as long as we're playing. — Billy Idol

Rock Music? No way, dude. Rock rules, and always will. — Meg Cabot

My idol, Gary Payton, played 19 years. I definitely want to try to reach that. — Jason Terry

There's a lot I've yet to say about 'American Idol,' so I am excited about teaming up with 'Idol Go Home' and starting my blog. — Brian Dunkleman

And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left. — Agatha Christie

I'm just happy that 'Idol' producers gave me a shot on the show and to be able to show who I really was, because I feel like I'm every single woman. — Nicki Minaj

Tom Hanks has been a huge idol of mine. I'd love to work with someone like him someday. You could learn a lot working with someone like that. — James Lafferty

The idol is the expression of religion. — Swami Vivekananda

Money makes a monster of a man, that makes money his master. — Anthony Liccione

Everybody is a teenage idol. — Barry Gibb

Our collective energies make miracles happen, not the stone idol. — Ashwin Sanghi

Wheresoever thou findest a high mountain or a lofty hill and a green tree, know that an idol is there! — Akiva Ben Joseph

Such a human waste, your eyes without a face. — Billy Idol

And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers? — William Shakespeare

I am an idol worshipper; for I understand what idol worship means, and the idolater does not. — Idries Shah

I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50. — Kevin Bacon

We slay the Love Idol at the site of the Crucifixion, nailing it to the cross. — Jennifer Dukes Lee

As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol. — A.W. Tozer

When a man makes a reverent face before a face that is no face - that is idol worship! — Menachem Mendel Of Kotzk

I don't watch 'American Idol,' but I wouldn't call it 'undignified.' — Buzz Aldrin

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol. — Joseph Addison

Every girl creates a dream in her mind; everyone needs an idol. — Roberto Cavalli

If I only had the chance, I'd ask one to dance, and I'd be dancing with myself. — Billy Idol

Honor is the idol of man's mind — George Washington Brooks

Don't go on American Idol, I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it's getting kinda scary, isn't it? — Joe Cocker

American Idol rocks! It's on now and this episode is amazing! — Ana Monnar

My father is my best friend. He's my idol and my boss. We work side by side and spend every weekend together. — Eric Trump

Viktor Petrenko and I met at a competition, where I beat him completely accidentally. I felt so embarrassed in front of my idol. — Evgeni Plushenko

I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling. — Billy Idol

Franz Klammer was my great idol in my younger years. — Hermann Maier

Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo. — Shane Claiborne

Anything you love more, fear more, serve more, or value more than God is your idol. — Adrian Rogers

Dostoevsky was my literary idol for a long time. — Janet Fitch

My idol has been Franco Corelli. But every singer can teach you something. — Andrea Bocelli

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 — Gordon Brown

As a kid, Punky Brewster was my idol. I wanted to dress like her and talk like her. — Devin Kelley

My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night. — Magic Johnson

I am classified as an idol in Hong Kong and in Asia. — Andy Lau

Most people use Twitter to meet girls, and I use it to meet 'American Idol' contestants! — Chris Jericho

Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice. — Aldous Huxley

Everybody got it wrong. I said I was into porn again, not born again. — Billy Idol

Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry. — Swami Vivekananda

The Human heart is an idol factory. — John Calvin

I'm not talking with an American accent. I haven't gone off and become Sammy Hagar. — Billy Idol

Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain. — Swami Vivekananda

Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth. — Vance Havner

The judges say, make it your own, so I just remixed a song if I felt like the piece needed it — Blake Lewis

The free person does not live by an unexamined faith. To do so is to worship an idol whittled out and made into a fetish. — James Luther Adams

They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time. — Rick Springfield

In the Kural there is a chapter on invocation to God. But there is no place in it for principle of idol worship. — Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

I enjoy watching Fear Factor, Newlyweds and American Idol as far as reality TV shows go. — Natalie Gulbis

Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it. — Swami Vivekananda

As the world continues to find new ways to tear itself apart, humans still love, hate, feel rejected and yarn to be close to someone. — Billy Idol

Honor, thou strong idol of man's mind. — Philip Sidney

I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can take you down.' — Quincy Jones

Steven Spielberg was my idol growing up. I knew that all of his movies have a very specific message and point of view, and the always are really epic. — Manish Dayal

Being on 'Idol,' you have no choice but to be an open book. — Jordin Sparks

Their Bibles had become an idol before God. That the cross, as a symbol, was an idol, even their own self-image was an idol before God. — Trevor D. Richardson

I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to. — Vincent D'Onofrio

Robert A. Heinlein has been an idol to me for more than 20 years. He can do no wrong, no matter how much he loves wars and hates pacifists. — Robert Anton Wilson