Quotes and Sayings About Icons
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Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.
-- Aaron Stanford -
I'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
-- Aisha Tyler -
Frankly I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 'superstar', etc. I've always thought of myself as an actor doing his job to the best of his ability.
-- Amitabh Bachchan -
I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.
-- Andres Serrano -
We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now.
-- Anne Dudley -
I didn't really know anything about Margot Fonteyn. I'd never really been a ballet child, so I had no idea what an incredibly huge icon she was, not just in terms of a creative icon - she was also a style icon. I had no idea she was up there with Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Onassis in terms of that kind of image.
-- Anne-Marie Duff -
Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well.
-- Anthony Anderson -
If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power of context and the process of reproduction. Claes Oldenburg's soft ice-cream cones and hamburgers changed sculpture from hard to soft, from stasis to transformation.
-- Arne Glimcher -
Daphne Guinness, who makes couture seem wearable, is an icon who influences what I wear.
-- Ashley Madekwe -
I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.
-- Bar Refaeli -
I’m elated. I guess it’s better late than never. Welcome to the 21st century. It’s fantastic. I love Dior, and Rihanna is very much one of my style icons. I’m happy they got there in the end. I adore her style. She loves fashion, she’s unafraid. She uses her imagination, which is something we should all strive to do.
-- Beverly Johnson -
In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and more time you have to expose your Achilles heel - wherever and whatever that might be.
-- Bill Gross -
In the United States those bits of our history that remain are paved over, sanitized, packaged for easy consumption. At those sites not already lost to commercial development, we walk between velvet ropes, herded by guides, warned not to touch. Our icons are preserved under glass, their magic demystified in glossy brochures.
-- Biloine W. Young -
The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment.
-- Brock Yates -
Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.
-- Bruce Dickinson -
I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.
-- Cam Newton -
Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But if that's their purpose, they can keep their paltry icons. We need only look up if we wish to feel small.
-- Carl Sagan -
Harrison Ford is absolutely amazing. He is a Hollywood icon, and just to work with him was absolutely incredible.
-- Carly Schroeder -
It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.
-- Charles Jencks -
I think to be a true style icon, you just have to dress yourself. There are so many actresses floating around who have people picking out their outfits for them; that's hard for me to wrap my head around or celebrate.
-- Chloe Sevigny -
To be a true icon, you have to have style emanating from you. And you have to have figured it out on your own and have a point of view, a perspective, and be able to translate it in some personal way.
-- Chloe Sevigny -
I dont want to be compared to Brad Pitt because I dont want to, you know, disappoint anybody. Brad Pitt is an icon.
-- Chord Overstreet -
I am not an icon of democracy. You are all, collectively, the icon of democracy.
-- Corazon Aquino -
I'm more than an actor. I'm an icon, an industry.
-- Corey Feldman -
My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.
-- Dan Flavin -
Jonathan Wells has done us all - the scientific community, educators, and the wider public - a great service. In Icons of Evolution he has brilliantly exposed the exaggerated claims and deceptions that have persisted in standard textbook discussions of biological origins for many decades, in spite of contrary evidence. these claims have been so often repeated that they seem unassailable - that is, until one reads Wells's book.
-- Dean H. Kenyon -
We've never performed the song live outside of recording it in the studio. That was a dream come true because Whitney, she's an icon and she's been one of my main mentors in this business.
-- Deborah Cox -
I like a basic uniform for guys. Steve Jobs is my fashion icon, because he wears the same outfit every day. If you always wear the same thing, you make a statement. Then put a bow tie on and really stand out.
-- Dhani Jones
