Fame Quotes
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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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Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.
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People think all fame is the same, but being on BBC Two from time to time does not make you Warren Beatty. I honestly can't impress that upon people enough.
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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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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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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.
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Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.
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I try to be somewhat wary of fame, but I'm not wary of success.
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Knowledge is power as well as fame.
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Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.
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Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.
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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.
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Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.
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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.
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The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.
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...but fame didn’t suit you, you compromised, a renegade rebel, you gave me your eyes.
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I'm not sure what fame is for if it isn't to focus on charitable work.quot;
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I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.
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If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.
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Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.
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How dearly, at one time, and how cheaply at another, does Genius purchase immortal fame!
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The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame.
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I like to be alone, I mean, I really love to be alone more than anything else, and I don't really like to talk about myself to death, and I don't like to share too much, and I don't really have dreams of extreme fame or even extreme respect.
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I don't like fame; I prefer to have no profile. But this is not possible for me.
