Fame Quotes
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I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible.
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The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame.
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I want to be part of Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame, but I don't want to be part of the kind of Hall of Fame that's based on voters' beliefs and assumptions.
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I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.
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I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly.
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I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.
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Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.
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That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
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The fame isn't important to me. It's a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.
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There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.
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My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor, and if fame follows suit, that's fine.
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I tend to worry about the minutiae of life. But living in the mountains of Idaho and having retreated from fame, I am more in tune with life.
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I think every player wants to be acknowledged for what they have done. I think every player eligible for the Hall Of Fame feels that the ultimate validation is enshrinement.
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Fame is not the worst thing. I went to dinner the other night, and the girls in the restaurant ignored me. It was so annoying.
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Fame is very isolating. It changes your reality.
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I was lucky to be with Johnny... he taught me a lot about fame.
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Nothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn't want it, one doesn't get it.
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Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
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The medium of response in America is fame; that's how a person that bounces a ball can make millions of dollars, and a school teacher with no fame makes $35,000.
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I have Internet fame. Real fame is more intense.
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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong.
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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
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It's such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you don't want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.
