Fame Quotes
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On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as little as possible about fame.
Diogenes
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.
William Shakespeare
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A spatial, temporal work had only to be exhibited in a gallery and then written about and reproduced as a photograph in an art magazine. Then this record of the no longer extant installation, along with accretions of information after the fact, became the basis for its fame, and to a large extent its economic value.
Dan Graham
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Moved by their selfish desires, people seek after fame and glory. But when they have acquired it, they are already stricken in years. If you hanker after worldly fame and practise not the Way, your labors are wrongfully applied and your energy is wasted. It is like unto burning an incense stick. However much its pleasing odor be admired, the fire that consumes is steadily burning up the stick.
Gautama Buddha
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You never feel that you have fame. It's always in back of you.
Katharine Hepburn
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When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to have intellectual and spiritual conversations with someone who was on the same page as me.
Nick Cannon
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Beloved Beowulf, remember how you boasted, Once, that nothing in the world would ever Destroy your fame; fight to keep it, Now, be strong and brave, my noble King, protecting life and fame Together. My sword will fight at your side!
Burton Raffel
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So, my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.
Nicki Minaj
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I want it all. Fame, fortune and all the commercials there are to do.
Evelyn Ashford
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Fame doesn't make it hard to date, because I could be seeing someone now and no-one would know. But if you go out with someone who's in the public eye you're asking for trouble. It's double intensity, double scrutiny. Even if I just went on one date with a normal guy, word gets around and that freaks me out. I don't like all that gossipy stuff.
Ellie Goulding
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Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame.
Walter Wykes
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If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing.
Paul Mooney
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Insignificant, is the loss of relatives, wealth and fame; The loss of wisdom is the greatest loss. Insignificant, is the increase of relatives, wealth and fame; The increase of wisdom is the highest gain. Therefore, you should train yourselves thus: "We will grow in the increase of wisdom" Thus you should train yourselves.
Gautama Buddha
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It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
Petrarch
