“ I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy. ”
- Anais Nin- Copy
- 832
“ For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory. ”
- Werner Herzog- Copy
- 772
“ Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves? ”
- Andy Warhol- Copy
- 967
“ Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings. ”
- Mitchell Burgess- Copy
- 784
“ It's not a master plan to do every remake and every recreation of icons. It's just what I've been hired to do. ”
- Steve Carell- Copy
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“ I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go… At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we. ”
- Jim Allchin- Copy
- 1.9K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.8K
“ You want to talk about the fading of an icon? You never said I was an icon in the first place. But you want to talk about it in a derogatory fashion. You say the superstar has fallen. But you've never called me a superstar ever. It's only that you use these words when you want to say something derogatory. ”
- Amitabh Bachchan- Copy
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“ As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves. ”
- Daniel J. Boorstin- Copy
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“ Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies� utopian images� can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century. ”
- Dennis Prager- Copy
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“ Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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“ Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images… ”
- Daniel J. Boorstin- Copy
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“ I am in awe, in admiration of the man who Gaius Julius Caesar was. I don't actually do him as the man himself. He is maybe a distant relative. It's hard to approach the real man because he is such an awesome icon. ”
- Karl Urban- Copy
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“ I wanted to put something real out there to end 35 years of speculation. My hope is that I can break through my legacy and earn my own credentials as an artist. Not for some stupid superficial reason, like I want to be a pop icon, but because it would make me feel more like I could hold my head up. ”
- Lisa Marie Presley- Copy
- 1.1K
“ I don't know what they mean by an icon. I never thought of myself as being that. It seems strange to me. I was just modeling, thinking of as many different poses as possible. I made more money modeling than being a secretary. I had a lot of free time… ”
- Bette Page- Copy
- 4K
“ I don't see myself as an icon. I was very moved by the response to my book; it brought me into relationship with many people whom I otherwise would not have met. I also discovered that in becoming a public figure, I became a focus for all kinds of projections that had little to do with me. ”
- Carol Gilligan- Copy
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