Fame Quotes
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
Tacitus
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The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame.
Homer
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It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .
Errol Morris
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Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.
William Hazlitt
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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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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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Fame compensates for a column of wants.
Gertrude Atherton
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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
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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 don't like fame; I prefer to have no profile. But this is not possible for me.
Caster Semenya
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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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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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Internet fame is like regular fame only without all the annoying 'money' and 'power.'
Michael Ian Black
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Fame gives you everything you never wanted.
Ava Gardner
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Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.
Cat Deeley
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I hate fame. I hate being recognized, because I don't know how to talk to people.
Norm MacDonald
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When we were young people, all we ever wanted was to be good working actors. We didn't think of fame or money because, honestly, money was never part of the dream.
Sarah Jessica Parker
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I don't think I ever wanted fame.
Susan Sullivan
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Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.
David Bowie
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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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Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it.
Ryan Adams
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Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
Robert Wyatt
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You don't need the fame to be vital.
Herbie Hancock