Fame Quotes
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If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
Oprah Winfrey -
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.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
Larry King -
Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
Tacitus -
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
W. H. Auden -
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.
Walter Cronkite -
Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.
Gabriela Sabatini -
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
Socrates
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I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.
Warwick Davis -
You're either humble or you're not. If you were a jerk before the fame, you just become a jerk with a bigger spotlight. Whoever you are really comes through.
Oprah Winfrey -
Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
Laura Linney -
People have a hard time accepting when someone displays even the slightest amount of discomfort in the spotlight. You're supposed to soak up every bit of fame like it’s sunshine.
Kristen Stewart -
Virtue has her heroes tooAs well as Fame and Fortune.
Friedrich Schiller -
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
Barbara Kruger
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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.
Omari Hardwick -
I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
Utah Phillips -
I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
Vera Farmiga -
I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.
Sade Adu -
The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
Campbell Scott -
I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.
Macaulay Culkin
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Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it.
Olivier Martinez -
This year, notoriety got confused with fame, and the devil is down hearted because there is nothing left for him to claim.
Don Henley The Eagles -
Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die.
Emily Dickinson -
At the end of the day, you're just another person in society. It doesn't matter how much fame you have. It doesn't matter how much money you have.
Eric Reid