Who is your idol?

Brian Peppers.

" Mine is Bam Margera.I love hes crazy stunts.  Your Turn!! "

John Petrucci.
 
I also respect many other players ala Satch, Vai, Clapton, King, etc., but if I had to single one out, for me it'd be John.

A true leader, someone to look up to and respect.... .Optimus!

Shaq because the man can do no wrong.  

" @JeffGoldblum: Dude,your taking this thread to serious.I have many idols.I just idolizes bam margera because hes a great skater and he has a kinda wicked sense of humor. "

Shit.  I really don't know to be honest.

" Jesus "

" Brian Peppers. "

I don't have an idols. :O

" I don't have any idols. "

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 My pick would be Einstein and  Hunter S. Thompson.... And I'm serious because JeffGoldblum is right Bam and all pop culture figurers are not the one's who need to be idolized."

I do not have any idols.

Hugh Laurie

" Hugh Laurie

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I wouldn't say I idolise him but if I had to pick an 'idol' I'd say Serj Tankian. Not as a musician but just as an awesome person. 

I'm gonna go with Mr. Goldblum and say Teddy. Kind of what the ideal modern leader is in my eyes.

Freddie Ljungberg.  Back in his red hair days.
 
Also, he has a huge penis.
 
What?

James Randi:

Uhm, I'm not 100% sure... I wouldn't go as far to call a lot of people idols, even if I appreciate their work and enjoy hearing about them.

On second thought, George Carlin.

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Uhm, I'm not 100% sure... I wouldn't go as far to call a lot of people idols, even if I appreciate their work and enjoy hearing about them.

On second thought, George Carlin.

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@Keyser_Soze:

While Roosevelt was campaigning in Milwaukee , Wisconsin , on October 14, 1912, a saloonkeeper named John Schrank shot him, but the bullet lodged in his chest only after penetrating both his steel eyeglass case and passing through a thick (50 pages) single-folded copy of the speech he was carrying in his jacket. Roosevelt, as an experienced hunter and anatomist, correctly concluded that since he wasn't coughing blood the bullet had not completely penetrated the chest wall to his lung, and so declined suggestions he go to the hospital immediately. Instead, he delivered his scheduled speech with blood seeping into his shirt. He spoke for ninety minutes . His opening comments to the gathered crowd were, "Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose." Afterwards, probes and X-ray showed that the bullet had traversed three inches (76 mm) of tissue and lodged in Roosevelt's chest muscle but did not penetrate the pleura , and it would be more dangerous to attempt to remove the bullet than to leave it in place. Roosevelt carried it with him for the rest of his life.

Rise

Hmm. Well I'd say; 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

James Rolfe

I don't really know. Probably one of the guys on Whose Line is it Anyways.

" I don't really know. Probably one of the guys on Whose Line is it Anyways. "

" Shaq because the man can do no wrong.   "

Daniel Fucking Erlandsson 
 
  

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Billy is my Idol...get it...Billy Idol...no? Ahh well I tried.

Thom Yorke. He is a genius, his music (along with the many, many talents of the band members) are so thoughtful and as a band, Radiohead has evolved from being pushed into a "mainstream pop-rock" position by their label into slowly gaining more control over their music. Their first album was mainly an appeasal to their label who wanted to get into the grunge/rock scene that was big. Radiohead made the album (Pablo Honey) and although it's ok, you can tell they weren't giving it their all. Then The Bends came out, where they had more control over their own type of music because of the success of "Creep" (Which is how many pople know Radiohead - never judge Radiohead from anything off their first album.) They now make some of the most evolved and inspiring music in our time. Even now, after listening to them for over 6  years, I can still find tracks in songs that I haven't heard. Small basslines that come from nowhere, little sounds from computer bleeps that somehow make art, harmonies that you didn't even know existed. The writing is also very unconventional - it's not as straightforward as most bands. I would describe Thom's writing style as somewhat similar to Tool's, except with different themes and execution.   
 
As well, what they stand for and advocate. They didn't sell themselves out like so many bands, they actually have created many songs for different causes, and they actually released an album for free on the internet to download. The first band to do it, by they way. Haha, 3 days ago they released a tribute song to Harry Patch who had just died. He was the last surviving WW1 veteran and was the oldest man in Europe at 111 years old. The song is astonishing. Check it out,  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA6KrTsTT_o
 
Everything they do makes me respect them so much. Especially the spat with Miley Cyrus. Only Radiohead could have handled it so well :)

I'll go with Stephen Jay Gould. I mean, who doesn't like snails and evolutionary theory?

That dude behind the counter at my local McDonalds.

Jack Kerouac (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kerouac)

Thom Yorke and George Carlin.

This dude that no one here probably knows: JEFF GERSTMANN!!!!!! He's an internet celebrity. 

Right now it'd definetly be Stephen King. I want to be a writer and he's my main influence. His interior monologues are just so good. Yeah, people may find his dialogue to be a little stiff at times, but I still love his work. Reading through 'Salem's Lot now!

Clint Eastwood and Davey Havok are probably my two biggest though I dislike the idea of idolisation.

Matt Bellamy

I don't really idolize anyone, but if I had to pick I'd choose Aldous Huxley, probably.

Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Trent Reznor, John F. Kennedy, and as weird as it sounds, Greg Kasavin.
 
I don't worship at their alters, but I do have profound respect for them that, if you want to label it, they're my 'idols.'