Fame Quotes
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...but fame didn’t suit you, you compromised, a renegade rebel, you gave me your eyes.
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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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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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This is a very fickle business. It's really about how much you value the other things in your life. I still value too many other things more than I do fame.
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Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna.
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Fame and me just don't go together. It's not always a fair process.
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O.J. Simpson was primarily interested in O.J. His rise to fame in the late '60s coincided with the period where black athletes were more outspoken and political than in any era. You're talking about the generation of black athletes that came about after Jackie Robinson. Athletes after that were just happy to find a place in sports. But when you got to the mid-'60s, you had athletes like Jim Brown and Muhammad Ali, who were very outspoken on the issues of race and civil rights.
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When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
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Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.
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G-Dragonhe is very romantic. I’m his roommate so I see everything. He’s seriously romantic. If he dates someone he makes a song for them. One time he asked me how the song was. And I said oh my god if this was released in Korea there’d be a huge deal and it would make so much money. But… since it’s for the woman he loves it’s only for her and gives up that money/fame from that song.
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After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!
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Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.
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I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.
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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn't die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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Our culture is so celebrity-obsessed that for individuals to show they matter, they need to display their intimacy to fame.
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You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.
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The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the queen of the sciences, is no doubt the peculiar certainty and necessity of its results.
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Fame is the thirst of youth.
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I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that.
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It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.
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You cannot fight against it. There's a price you have to pay for fame, and people who don't want to pay that price can get in trouble. I accepted the idea of celebrity because of a French expression: 'You cannot have the butter and the money for the butter.'
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Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.
