Fame Quotes
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Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.
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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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The fame which bids fair to live the longest resembles that which Horace attributes to Marcellus, whose progress he compares to the silent, imperceptible growth of a tree.
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I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.
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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.
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Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.
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He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
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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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Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?
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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.
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How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!
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It stirs up envy, fame does.
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The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.
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Fame has a special burden, which I might as well state here and now. I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden.
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You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.
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I don't think fame changes people. People change as they gather more experiences and information about life.
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At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.
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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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Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?
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Modeling's actually been treating me a lot better at age 24 than when I was 21. Young girls get their hopes up and have fifteen minutes of fame; it's really sad, because there are very few models who last anymore.
