Fame Quotes
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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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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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I don't like fame, I prefer to have no profile. But this is not possible for me. This is what I do, so I just have to find a way of being comfortable with it.
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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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A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.
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I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame.
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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.
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Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my 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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Fame is the thirst of youth.
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It's a great honor to me to be named to the Hall of Fame. It's very hard for me to even imagine that I would ever be elected to it.
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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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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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I wanted to. I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled. Thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.
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Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.
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Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
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The only good thing about fame that I've gotten is I've gotten out of a couple of speeding tickets. I've gotten into a restaurant when I didn't have a suit and tie on. That's really about it.
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I never took the fame too seriously. It was a great period in my life, but it doesn't define me.
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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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This fame is a juggernaut: It slaps you in the face, and you don't know what you're doing. You don't know who has your back, who is your support system.
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A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people BOW DOWN to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
