#ido

There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#called #concerned #danger #divine #expression

I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#course #groupies #i #idol #love

Action is the antidote to despair. ↗

— Joan Baez

#antidote #despair

'American Idol' has taken over my whole life. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#american idol #idol #life #over #taken

Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience. ↗

— William Adams

#children #christ #conscience #entreat #fatherless

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#idol #more #than #unhappy

Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#explanation #feel #feel good #good #hopefully

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother. ↗

— Russell Baker

#classic #grandmother #guidance #his #his way

I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#default #doing #i #i think #idol

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

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