Lauren Ash

I think that most people have experienced a relationship in their life - whether it be romantic, friendships, family, whatever - where there's somebody who you just really, really idolize. You just want them to feel the same way about you so bad that you kind of miss the red flag that maybe this person isn't super healthy for you.

Garth Brooks

I live my life by these little church signs you see as you drive around, and there's one near me that says, 'If we really knew each other, we would neither idolise nor condemn.' And that's it: if we all knew each other, then we wouldn't treat anybody any different. And there wouldn't be any big stars, I guess.

American Singer

Pia Toscano

I'm definitely doing better. I never realized that I would get the support that I've gotten from everybody - from my fans, to people that I've idolized my whole life. So it's overwhelming, it's amazing and I believe that everything happens for a reason so I'm in a really good place right now.

American Musician

Poonam Dhillon

Actors are citizens like any other person in the country. People idolize them and follow their activities. So, our involvement in social services comes from this feeling of social commitment and responsibility. We don't do all this to be in the news.

Indian Actress

Scott Wolf

Idolizing is a strong word, though. I'm happy that people respond well to the work I'm doing now. If anyone admires what I'm doing in any way, then I'm really proud of it.

American Actor

Phil Spector

People tell me they idolise me, want to be like me, but I tell them, 'trust me, you don't want my life.' I've been a very tortured soul.

American Businessman

Stevie Ray Vaughan

The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you're up there bigger than life. People idolize you.

Albert Einstein

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

German Physicist

Natalie Dormer

I meet fascinating people I respect and idolise all the time.

English Actress

Nagma

People idolize film actors and this helps connect with them.

Indian Politician

Beware of suggesting someone is blindly admired or followed, which can have a negative tone.

Over-Admiration Warning

Commonly used to describe intense admiration typical of young fans towards celebrities.

Youthful Adoration

Use when discussing devotion to pop culture figures, not just anyone admired.

Pop Culture Connection

It involves a strong form of worship, usually within a formal religious practice.

Religious Reverence

Refers to tangible objects that are treated with religious devotion.

Physical Representations

Usage may vary greatly across cultures with different religious practices.

Cultural Specificity

 to idolize their leadership, only to end up being tortured by their heroes. And torture's a terrible enough thing as it is, but when it's done by your hero, that just breaks you in so many ways. I left Bellevue, went to business school and started this. Now, one of the things that I refer to when I -- about the importance of this message --

Naif Al-Mutawa:...

 That Crusader loader who was killed? You find out his first name and where he was from. Yes, sir. I wanted to do the best job I could do, because it's a man that I now idolize in life. You guys want to make it back to base without any more casualties, huh? Then we have to work together.

First Look: The Long...

 inspiration i knew i had to apply over four thousand people submitted photos you know hearing that number it's pretty humbling to to think that i was chosen out of that and it's really hard to put into words as someone who grew up reading national geographic idolizing

Finding Humanity Through...

 especially at the beginning by idolizing we started dating and he loved everything about me that I was smart that I'd gone to Harvard that I was passionate about helping teenage girls and my job he wanted to know everything about my family and my childhood my

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 take photos that i don't normally take push the limits push my limits capture things that are outside my comfort zone i idolize the national geographic photographer it's so wonderful to go out there and seek the stories and document them and move

Taking Landscape Photos...

 So for obvious reasons, this narrative has been driving me a little bit crazy. But it's not the only one. The other narrative that I'm going to talk about is the idea of the superimmigrant. In America, we love to idolize superimmigrants

Elizabeth Camarillo...

 Busyness is a badge of honor, and convenience trumps quality in our quest for quick. Our addiction to the express life is choking us and the planet. We idolize animals like the cheetah, the "Ferrari of the animal kingdom,"

Sloths! The strange life...

 litter averaging of four to six they're born blind and toothless barely able to crawl nestled safe in the den their mother has dug and often this is the same den the pack is used for generations pups just seemed to idolize

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 He did this especially at the beginning by idolizing me. We started dating, and he loved everything about me, that I was smart, that I'd gone to Harvard, that I was passionate about helping teenage girls, and my job.

 I know what the cynics say, and it's you can't eat your principles. But you can't breathe a basis point either, and neither can your children. I know I idolized my grandfather probably too much.

Idolize

To greatly admire or love someone or something, often to the extent of over admiration or excessive reverence.

Often appears as...

In a religious context, to worship an image or representation of a god as a deity.

Often appears as...

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Youthful Adoration

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