![Eddie [Murphy] is an icon. He's one of the reason why I started doing comedy in the beginning. He opened a lot of doors for black people.](/assets/img/quote-photos/eddie-murphy-is-an-icon-hes-one-of-the-reason-why-i-started-doing-comedy-in-t.jpg){kind=icon}
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Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Charles Dickens
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For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours. Charles Studd
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(Discouragement) Can be temporary-or it can destroy our life. The choice is ours. If we refuse to deal with discouragement head-on, we are opening the door for it to completely dominate our life. Charles Stanley
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Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away. Charles Spurgeon
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I'm a leave-the-bathroom-door-open nudist, which is sometimes disconcerting for my friends. Alanis Morissette
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Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away…forever." The Joker Alan Moore
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I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee. I can sing some polkas. And proud of that. Al Jarreau
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As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors. Chloe Grace Moretz
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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders. Chinua Achebe
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I dont want to be compared to Brad Pitt because I dont want to, you know, disappoint anybody. Brad Pitt is an icon. Chord Overstreet
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To be a true icon, you have to have style emanating from you. And you have to have figured it out on your own and have a point of view, a perspective, and be able to translate it in some personal way. Chloe Sevigny
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Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created. Aaron Stanford
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My beauty icon is Angelina Jolie. Ashley Benson
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Daphne Guinness, who makes couture seem wearable, is an icon who influences what I wear. Ashley Madekwe
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I don't see myself as an icon, because I just wear whatever I want to wear. Britney Spears
icons issues
One of the issues is that our icons are not yet our icons. Denise Miller
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It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm. Charles Jencks
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Self-publishing is great, but I don't want to be an icon for it, or anything else. Amanda Hocking
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It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. Charles Caleb Colton
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A multitude of people and yet solitude.
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My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
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Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
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Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
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Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
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I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
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Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
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Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule