David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
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	I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.   
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	Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.   
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	I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.   
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	When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.   
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	I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame.   
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	Fame hasn't really affected me. I have a really close knit group around me, and my sister is always with me, so it's like a bit of a travelling circus.   
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	I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.   
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	I was at UGA playing with Champ Bailey and Hines Ward - both guys who will probably touch the Hall of Fame one day.   
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	Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.   
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	Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.   
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	In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain.   
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	Al Kaline bought a tee and a ball and swung at it all winter. Look where it got him: the Hall of Fame.   
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	Andy Warhol made fame more famous.   
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	Fame creeps up on you.   
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	If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.   
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	Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.   
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	Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row.   
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	I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.   
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	All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good.   
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	Fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.   
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	If it required some effort to go from today to tomorrow, some people would always remain in yesterday.   
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	A closed mind stumbles over the blessings of life without recognizing them.   
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	Fame puts you there where things are hollow.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					