Fame Quotes
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Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
Cato the Elder
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I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame.
Noel Redding The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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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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You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.
Nikki Cox
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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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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck
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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.
Red Faber
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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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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.
Steve Martin
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The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.
Dante Alighieri
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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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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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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.
Tiger Woods
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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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Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
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Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
Cato the Elder
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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.
William Shakespeare
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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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Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.
Homer
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Internet fame is like regular fame only without all the annoying 'money' and 'power.'
Michael Ian Black
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One of the problems with fame is they try to pigeonhole you... like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.
Charles A. Reich
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Fame in itself is, you know... It involves a whole discussion on just that word, fame. It's a power; it's another degree of power, to be famous. I think it's obvious: you have more influence the more well-known you are. And, hopefully, it's righteously used.
Harry Dean Stanton
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I'm not sure what fame is for if it isn't to focus on charitable work.quot;
Jamie Lee Curtis