Fame Quotes
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People build fame because they're pretty sometimes.Most of the time. This is what the audience wants, apparently. I don't necessarily agree, but I cannot go against it. But it's true that our industry is just full of people who actually really look good. It's the criteria of our generation.
Emmanuel Benbihy -
I never took the fame too seriously. It was a great period in my life, but it doesn't define me.
Jonathan Taylor Thomas
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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.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
Fame compensates for a column of wants.
Gertrude Atherton -
Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.
William Hazlitt -
We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.
Brigham Young -
Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
Cato the Elder -
The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.
Dante Alighieri
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The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe.
Homer -
Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it: feel it, and hate in silence.
Washington Allston -
I'm not sure what fame is for if it isn't to focus on charitable work.quot;
Jamie Lee Curtis -
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.
Paul Newman -
I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish. That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black and a woman proves, I think, that our society is not yet either just or free.
Shirley Chisholm -
Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.
Sandra Bullock
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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.
Estelle -
I may not go down in the hall of fame, but I’m gonna enjoy my life. I’m gonna enjoy it for what it is.
Jack Owen Cannibal Corpse -
They want me on the television shows now because I did so well on Celebrity Assholes.
Steve Martin -
Knowledge is power as well as fame.
Rufus Choate -
People think being famous is fun. It's not. Even a little bit of fame. It's bizarre. It's weird.
Steve Lukather Toto -
Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
Robert Wyatt
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I try to be somewhat wary of fame, but I'm not wary of success.
Troy Garity -
Fame was initially this kind of blunt tool that was thrust into my hands very young.
Josh Hartnett -
Our male-dominated culture tends to define success in terms of wealth, fame, power, the reaction of others. Women are fed a version that includes personal fulfilment through marriage and motherhood in addition to professional acclaim and of course we must look sexy but not too sexy and then graciously disappear when we hit middle age.
Catherine Mayer -
I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me.
Bob Marley