Claudius
“Acquaintance lessens fame.”
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Emily Dickinson
“Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every hero becomes a bore at last.”
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Exodus 20:3
“Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”
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Al Bernstein
"A fool and his money get a lot of publicity."
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Daniel Boorstin
"Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities."
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Spencer W. Kimball
“We are on the whole an idolatrous people.”
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1 Corinthians 10:14
“Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.”
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Enya
“Fame and success are very different things.”
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Antonio Porchia
“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”
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Napoleon Bonaparte
“All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.”
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Jean de la Fontaine
“By the work one knows the workman.”
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Rainer Rilke
“Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.”
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Exodus 20:4
“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.”
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1 Chronicles 16:26
“For all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.”
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Will Rogers
“Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.”
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Genesis 35:2
“… Put away the strange gods that are among you…”
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Albert Einstein
“Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.”
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Joseph Addison
“There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.”
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Kitty Kelly
“A hero is someone we can admire without apology.”
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Voltaire
“What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.”
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Emily Dickinson
“Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.
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Psalms 135:15
“The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.”
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Daniel Boorstin
“A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.”
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Erma Bombeck
“Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.”
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Goethe
“If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.”
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Erica John
“Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.”
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Aiden Wilson Tozer
“An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.”
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Herbert Beerbohm Tree
“The only man who wasn't spoilt by being lionized was Daniel.”
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William Hazlitt
“Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.”
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Archbishop of Cantebury
"I do not read advertisements--I would spend all my time wanting things."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”
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Joseph Campbell
“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.”
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Thomas Carlyle
“Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among mankind.”
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Nicholas Johnson
"It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive."
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Jonathan Swift
“When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”
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Author Unknown
“A hero is a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
“Whatever thing a man sets his heart on…is his god; and if his god doesn’t also happen to be the true and living God of Israel that man is laboring in idolatry.”
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Sir George Savile
“Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or not.”
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George Bernard Shaw
"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood"
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Clare Barnes
“Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the twentieth century than any other single factor.”
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Herbert Beerbohm Tree
“When I pass my name in such large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.”
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Cato the Elder
“After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.”
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Stephen Leacock
"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it."
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John Collins
“The world, like an accomplished hostess, pays most attention to those whom it will soonest forget.”
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Lord Byron
“What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.”
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Dante Alighieri
“Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.”
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John Wooden
“Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.”
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Washington Irving
“The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.”
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Ezekiel 14:6
“Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God: Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.”
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Matthew 22:37
“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.”
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M.W. Fishwick
“Through hero worship we transcend our own stuffy backyards; and the specific qualities of the heroes at any given time are 'abrameters to national meaning.'”
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Thomas Carlyle
“Hero worship exists forever and everywhere...no nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of man...”
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Spencer W. Kimball
“Modern idols or false gods can take such forms as clothes, homes, businesses, machines, automobiles, pleasure boats, and numerous other material deflectors…”
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Henry David Thoreau
“Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.”
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Deuteronomy 8:19
“And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.”
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Daniel J. Boorstin
“A celebrity is a person known for his well-knownness. Celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by being well known for relations among themselves. By a kind of symbiosis, celebrities live off each other.”
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Matthew 24:24
“For in those days there shall also arise false Christ’s, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch, that, if possible, they shall deceive the very elect, who are the elect according to the covenant.”
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William V. Shannon
"Parents who do not persevere in rearing their children according to their own convictions are not leaving them `free' to develop on their own. Instead, they are letting other children and the media, principally television and the movies, do the job."
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Reo Christianson
“When the next Gibbon writes about the Decline and Fall of America, he won’t be talking about communism; the entertainment industry will be the villain. It is willing America'’ heart while ravaging its soul.”
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Daniel 5:23
“…And thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified.
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Spencer W. Kimball
“Man is naturally a religious being. His heart instinctively seeks for God whether he reverences the sacred cow or prays to the sun or moon; whether he kneels before wood and stone images, or prays in secret to his Heavenly Father, he is satisfying an inborn urge.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“In recent years the media have raised boorishness to an art form. The hip heroes of movies today deliver gratuitous put-downs to ridicule and belittle anyone who gets in their way. Bad manners, apparently, make a saleable commodity. Television situation comedies wallow in vulgarity, stand-up comedians base their acts on insults to their audiences, and talk show hosts become rich and famous by snarling at callers and heckling guests
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Durrel A. Woolsey
“Dad, you need to be a hero in your family. They need a hero. They will have strong peer pressure and temptation to adopt the so-called heroes of today who are not worthy of their attention and most certainly not their emulation. The heroes or superstars in the sports and entertainment world, and there are many, frequently become examples of dishonesty, instability, and infidelity. They flagrantly and indifferently flaunt those weaknesses of character and immorality before a doting and accepting world…
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