Fame Quotes
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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.
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No, I'm not angling for huge fame. My career has been a very slow, arduous climb to the middle.
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What changes with fame is the perceptions of the individual rather than the individual.
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When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.
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For what is glory but the blaze of fame?
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I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.
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I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.
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Lying in a featherbed will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on Earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.
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O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.
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You can't really appreciate anonymity until you've lost it. People say that's sour grapes, but it really isn't To be able to walk down the street without people paying attention to you is a real blessing and you lose it when you become an actor.
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It's success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I'm addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them.
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I heard a fella say once he'd rather have a rose bud when he was alive than to have a whole rose garden thrown his way after he is gone. It looks like they've (the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1935) thrown the roses my way while I'm still here.
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I truly believe I may be getting too big for my own good.
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Fame is a silly business. People who chase it are almost always going to be disappointed.
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When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.
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Fame is the beauty parlor of the dead.
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In the future we'll all have 15 minutes of fame and 15 minutes of healthcare.
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I meet people who are famous, and it's made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantages. I'm nervous about that. I don't want to become a celebrity.
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Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.
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Love is the most important ingredient to any meaningful relationship. It is fundamental to true significance. Your quality of life is directly tied to the amount of love flowing in you and through you to others. Though it's often overlooked, love is infinitely more valuable than riches, fame, and honor. They will pass away, but love remains. You can be fulfilled without these, but not without love.
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The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long.
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A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.
