Icons Quotes

• We don't have T-shirts with my face, but there I can see the beginnings, especially young girls seeing me as sort of a icon in that way. And in that regard I'm more than happy to step in.

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • Faces
  • Steps
  • Icons

• I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • Community
  • Position
  • Icons

• There are beauty icons that I can never be like, sorta like a Gena Rowlands - I'll never have that look. I love Giulietta Masina, the great Fellini actress. But I'm probably more Seymour Cassel. Or somewhere between Lou Reed and Nora Ephron?

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Great
  • Like
  • Beauty

• I think in general, people look at all Olympic athletes, look at all superstar athletes, and they say, "Okay, this guy doesn't have any insecurities." They're almost like these icons who - I don't know how to say it, but like they can't make mistakes. But the reality is, and I'll tell you this firsthand, a lot of great athletes have a lot of insecurities, and they have a really hard time dealing with a lot of so-called losing or however you want to classify it.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I just sing and write songs and wear what I want. It's quite a good job really. If I wanted to I suppose I could become more of a fashion icon, but singing is my thing.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Job

• I make music as good as possible, but I do reference cultural icons, because I want my music to be a time capsule of 2007.

  

  Kanye West
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• Being an icon is overrated, remember an icon can be moved by a mouse

  

  William Shatner
  • Remember
  • Moved
  • Overrated

• Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Gay
  • Tragedy
  • Outfit

• I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.

  

  John Travolta
  • Thinking
  • Young
  • Died

• We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Reality
  • Images
  • Icons

• Michael Jordan was a cultural icon that everybody on the playground wanted to be. The Bulls dynasty was a huge part of my childhood and it was the peak of my basketball interest as a kid.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Kids
  • Childhood
  • Basketball

• Kate Moss. She looks good in anything. She would look good in one of your t-shirts, in her t-shirt, in a man's suit, in a huge gown. She looks amazing naked. She even makes nude look stylish. That, to me, is a style icon. She could put a barrel on and it would be some sort of statement.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Good
  • Men
  • She

• I don't think getting in and out of a limousine has anything to do with being an icon.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Thinking
  • Icons
  • Limousines

• Fashion icons that are famous in Paris, it's Charlotte Gainsbourg or even me on the Internet, but we wear the same clothes every day - a white t-shirt with jeans - so why are we fashion icons?

  

  Jeanne Damas
  • Fashion
  • Jeans
  • Icons

• We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Fighting
  • Intelligent
  • Values

• The stiletto is the icon of erotic femininity. You're taller, thinner and curvier, all at the same time. What's not to like?

  

  Valerie Fahnestock Steele
  • Time
  • Shoes
  • Erotic

• What I learned from being around great icons like Calvin Klein is that the great fashion trendsetters don't change their look every season. They have a look, and they update maybe a piece per season.

  

  Elizabeth Rogers
  • Change
  • Fashion
  • Learned

• In fact, James Meredith who was once the icon of the civil rights movement. He supported me for governor!

  

  David Duke
  • Movement
  • Icons
  • Governors

• The best thing about it is that she Sophia Loren is the most normal person, and I have the utmost admiration and love for her. I know that she is an icon and an absolute legend, but as a family member, the most beautiful thing is that she is really, really normal.

  

  Sasha Alexander
  • Beautiful
  • Members
  • Admiration

• What makes it special for me is the historical significance of standing on that stage and thinking of all the icons and pioneers that came before.

  

  Steven Wariner
  • Stage
  • Before
  • Standing

• Today, the world lost a creative icon. Michelle and I join millions of fans from around the world in mourning the sudden death of Prince.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Today
  • Death

• There was something about Marilyn. She couldn't act her way out of a bag, but she became an icon because something happened between her and the lens, and no one knows what it is.

  

  Richard Widmark
  • Way
  • Happened
  • Bags

• I feel very fortunate to be compared to somebody so incredible. Michael Jackson's an icon.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Feels
  • Fortunate
  • Incredibles

• I respect Snoop even aside from the music, just as a man, and especially the way he still represents who he is, after being a pop star and an icon. He's done it successfully and has still been able to balance it.

  

  Nipsey Hussle
  • Balance
  • Stars
  • Pop

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