Quotes About Idolization

She had yet to experience the effects of anybody's sex appeal, though she greatly admired Larry Bird—a fact that could not possibly have had anything to do with his looks.

En todos los ocasos de la Humanidad ha surgido la tentación de endiosar a los animales: lo hicieron las civilizaciones bárbaras, de Egipto a Cartago, que imaginaron un panteón que era en realidad un zoológico amedrentador, poblado por alimañas; y lo volvieron a hacer las civilizaciones refinadas, cuando llegó su decrepitud

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

It's really weird when you realize the people you look up to - who have influenced or inspired you - start to realize what you do.

I'm not saying that maybe there isn't a kid out there whose behavior hasn't been influenced by me in some way. I'm sure there is. But I can only speak for myself, and if you'd asked if my behavior had ever been affected by people I'd admired from afar, like musicians or footballers, that'd be a yes, totally. Right down to their hand gestures.

When I was a kid, I always had a big thing for Dannii Minogue. Initially I liked Kylie, but I quickly moved on to Dannii. There was always something more alluring about her. I think I actually wrote to her asking if we could meet.

I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.

We always find it difficult to forgive our heroes for being human.

I tweeted once that I was jealous of bands like All Time Low 'cause they get so many bras thrown at them. So, now fans throw bras with messages written in them.

In my formative moments, working with Jose was the best time of my life. I was able to learn many things and working with him takes you to another level. You fall in love with him and he becomes your idol. I wanted to be like him, know everything that he knew and absorb all the information he was giving. Then you fall on the wrong side of Jose.

I play a lot of football, but let me tell ya, I am nowhere near as good as Jamie Tartt. I wish that I could play football like he does.

I must have been six or seven - standing in front of a full-length mirror with a yardstick, pretending to be John Lennon. In my head, I was always going to be a singer, and The Beatles were probably the first musicians that had a major impact.

One of the reasons I wear No. 2 is because of him. Yeah, he was ultimate team guy. He was a winner. And just a good guy for a kid to look up to. And I always pretended to be Jeter.

Well Brooke, I've always liked her, and when I was little I used to stay with Diana Ross, me and my brothers stayed with her for years and I never said, but I always had a crush on her.

The tragedy of India is that the Mahatma, who has numerous streets named after him and has had his statues put up everywhere, who's there in our school books and on our currency, who is used by everyone to hardsell his political ideology, is not emulated in India.

We like to put people on a pedestal, give them one character trait, and if they step outside of that shrinelike area that we blocked out for them, then we will punish them.

The question is not whether or not there should be a cult of the individual, but rather whether or not the individual concerned represents the truth, if he does then he should be worshiped.

A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized

I fell in love with Sinatra when I was very young.

There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.

It's always been my dream to look like Mariah Carey in my photos with a microphone. I don't know how she does it. When she sings, she looks perfect.

I am a huge fan of Shah Rukh Khan sir, so I also know what it feels like to be a fan.

I know he's retired, but I'm a big fan of Shaquille O'Neal, his game and his personality. I have a pair of his shoes in my office. You see the size of his shoe and think, 'This is not real, this couldn't belong to a human being.' But he is human!

That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.