Fame Quotes
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The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.
Dante Alighieri
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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.
Jonathan Taylor Thomas
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It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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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
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He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
Cato the Elder
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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck
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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.
William Shakespeare
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They want me on the television shows now because I did so well on Celebrity Assholes.
Steve Martin
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The most insidious part of fame for April wasn't that other people dehumanized her; it was that she dehumanized herself. She came to see herself not as a person but as a tool.
Hank Green
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
Erica Jong
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In the future, everyone will have fifteen minutes of fame. Followed by fifteen minutes of legal problems, fifteen minutes of ridicule from late-night TV hosts, fifteen minutes of obscurity, and fifteen minutes of "Where are they now?".
Dan Piraro
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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.
Brigham Young
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Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
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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.
Catherine Mayer
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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.
Stephen Merchant
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Fame is a problem of perspective.
Ethan Canin
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I try to be somewhat wary of fame, but I'm not wary of success.
Troy Garity
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How dearly, at one time, and how cheaply at another, does Genius purchase immortal fame!
George Gilfillan
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Knowledge is power as well as fame.
Rufus Choate
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Fame was initially this kind of blunt tool that was thrust into my hands very young.
Josh Hartnett
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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.
Dante Alighieri
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I never wanted to be famous. I want to be more famous than I am so I can get the roles. I hate losing the roles. I was famous more for being around people who were famous, and I hate that kind of fame.
Johnathon Schaech
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Better and sweeter than health, or friends, or money, or fame, or ease, or prosperity, is the adorable will of our God.
Hannah Whitall Smith