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#idol

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I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance – You oh God – towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matter.


Augustine of Hippo


#sin #wickedness #life

Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.


George Eliot


#love #work #life

Tom Hanks has been a huge idol of mine. I'd love to work with someone like him someday. You could learn a lot working with someone like that.


James Lafferty


#could #hanks #him #huge #i

There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.


Adam Lambert


#certain level #feed #idol #into #kind

I've never seen American Idol but I am grateful to them. That show is one of Fox's biggest moneymakers, and some of that money goes to pay for shows like Prison Break. Simon Cowell's been signing my paychecks and for that I say thanks.


Wentworth Miller


#american #american idol #been #biggest #break

Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.


Morris Raphael Cohen


#both #distressing #frequency #idols #literature

In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.


Trevor Nunn


#developed #english #english literature #i #idolatry

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.


Ann Oakley


#families #idolatry #nothing #other #than

Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.


Adam Oates


#ball #british #could #family #father

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.


Pope John Paul II


#become #close #comfort #danger #fact






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