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Idols Quotes - Page 23

These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.

These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.

Barry Manilow
Moving, Reality, Idols
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.

Barry Manilow
Kids, Idols, Three
"Barry Manilow On Singing Standards And His Real Job". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 7, 2012.

No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency.

Arthur Hugh Clough
Idols, May, Currency
"The Latest Decalogue" l. 3 (1862)

Look at 'American Idol,' which I don't look at. Those winners haven't become household names except for Jennifer Hudson, and she was a reject. You can't aim to be a household name. You just have to be successful.

Andre Leon Talley
Successful, Rejects You, Idols

I auditioned for 'American Idol' at 17. They told me, 'No.'

Amber Riley
Idols, American Idol
"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

It's easy to say that reducing a song to 90 seconds on "American Idol" strips off so many things, and how it's the 21st century and music doesn't mean the same things to people and that it's so disposable.

Alan Light
Song, Mean, Idols
Source: pitchfork.com

I think we've made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we've treated anything else. We've made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people. I think we have to do a better job than we've done. So I do think there is, people rush to judgment and rush to clarify their point on this issue in ways that they don't' rush to judgment and to clarity on other issues.

Alan Chambers
Jobs, Thinking, Idols
Source: www.christianpost.com

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.

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Pride, Idols, Long

If we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol, made not with hands but with thoughts; and an idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

Aiden Wilson Tozer
God, Hands, Idols
Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.11, Fig

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