Fame Quotes
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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
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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.
Horace Greeley
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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
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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
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Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times.
Nick Mancuso
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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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If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.
Moon Unit Zappa
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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.
Christopher Bollen
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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck
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I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me.
Bob Marley
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Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.
William Hazlitt
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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
