Quotes About Idolizing Someone

#1. I wouldn't mind being a hero to a kid. I grew up idolizing players, so I know how important that is for a lot of younger kids.

Johnny Damon

#2. I'm not a concept. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to 'make them alive' ... but I'm just a fucked up girl who's looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours.

Charlie Kaufman

#3. It's odd, because I used to see pictures, on telly or wherever, of what I now know to be Shaftesbury Avenue and I used to wonder what that amazing street with all the lights was. Well, now I know. I think when you get a wee taste of something, it maybe isn't what you thought it was.

Shirley Henderson

#4. There wasn't any particular player I modeled my game after. I tried to learn from everyone and create my own style. I studied past players. Truth be told I never had a favorite player. It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people. I just go try to learn.

Magnus Carlsen

#5. Though I've known you a short time, I feel I know you intimately. Not your life but you, your emotions, your dreams, your aspirations.

Henry Miller

#6. If evil geniuses are so rare, why do so many bad people get away with so many crimes against their fellow citizens, and, when they become leaders of nations, against humanity?

Dean Koontz

#7. Idolizing virginity as a stand-in for women's morality means that nothing else matters- not what we accomplish, not what we think, not what we care about and work for. Just if/how/whom we have sex with. That's all.

Jessica Valenti

#8. I cursed myself. For once, heaven had sent me "Beauty" in its most perfected form and I abandoned it. She might not have been a girl after all but an angel: a force to guide me on this hazardous path of life I hurry down ... How can life be hazardous if it can only end in death?

Roman Payne

#9. But remember, there are two ways to dehumanize someone: by dismissing them, and by idolizing them.

David Wong

#10. I was a little girl who grew up idolizing musical-theatre stars.

Laura Benanti

#11. It's not enough for Christians merely to recognize that the world isn't what it ought to be and that people are suffering in ways they shouldn't have to suffer." Instead, our "sorrow and indignation" should prompt us to act in ways that "subvert" that brokenness.

Ed Stetzer

#12. I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.

Flea

#13. By idolizing those whom we honor, we do a disservice both to them and to ourselves ... We fail to recognize that we could go and do likewise. - CHARLES V. WILLIE

James W. Loewen

#14. I grew up idolizing Madeline Kahn and Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett, Ruth Gordon, Rosalind Russell, Amy Irving, women who were stylish and real actresses who did real work and could not be replaced with anyone else. You cannot cast anyone else in Madeline Kahn's roles.

Jenny Slate

#15. I usually don't like to 'spoon feed' my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

The Weeknd

#16. 'Beetlejuice' was a romp, man. 'Beetlejuice' was fun. I've never had so much fun in my life.

Michael Keaton

#17. I do believe that dreams are interpretable. Analysis and praxis have taught me so.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#18. No one will ever be able to say what the comandantes would have done with their historic opportunity in Nicaragua if they had not been confronted with civil war.

Stephen Kinzer

#19. Again, as egotistical as I am, as self-centered as I am, and as much as I love strangers idolizing me, I find it very crass to be self-promoter in a way.

John Larroquette

#20. I don't live that life anymore, it's as simple as that.

Lawrence Taylor

#21. Sometimes we control our family members because we idolize and idealize our perfect plan over the journey that God has laid out for them. (p. 56)

Mary E. DeMuth

#22. I was never crying and shaking like the Beliebers do, but I understand the idolizing of a hero.

Jon M. Chu

#23. I remember talking to someone who is vegan. At the time, I would hear a lot of outrageous claims from vegans about the good that being a vegan can do for you, for your health and whatnot. I remember someone once told me vegans don't sweat, so I started my mind going.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#24. My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it.

Thomas A. Edison

#25. I had a great time cheering for the team that I grew up idolizing and watching. The best part about the experience was the friendships I made and being part of an organization that is so involved with the community.

Lauren Gardner

#26. When I got Traded To The Celtics, I was so Happy Because I was Back home And Had Grown Up Idolizing The Celtics

Chris Herren

#27. Idolizing is a strong word, though. I'm happy that people respond well to the work I'm doing now. If anyone admires what I'm doing in any way, then I'm really proud of it.

Scott Wolf

#28. I've had many crushes before, but none so deep as this. Your scent's the only thing I crave; you're the only one I miss.

Veronica Nagorny

#29. To see my statue unveiled alongside Borje Salming, the player I grew up idolizing in Sweden, will be very special for both my family and me.

Mats Sundin

#30. With a smile, the man at the oar moved from side to side: It is beautiful, sir, it is as you say. But isn't every life, isn't every work beautiful?

Hermann Hesse

#31. It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.

Magnus Carlsen

#32. I grew up idolizing these men, like Arnold Schwarzenegger. I loved Sly (Stallone). I loved Bruce Willis. These guys embodied everything that action was in the 80s and 90s.

Katee Sackhoff