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		Some people collect stamps, other people like to be famous. I don't have that hobby.
	
	  Manoj Bhargava Manoj Bhargava
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		We reward people a lot for being rich, for being famous, for being cute, for being thin... one of the values I think we need to instill in our country, in our children, is a sense of 'usefulness', in other words, are we useful, are we making other peoples' lives a little bit better?
	
	  Barack Obama Barack Obama
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		You look at boxing being an international, world-famous sport, right up there next with soccer, and there's only two fighters the people want to see fight. Two little fellows, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather.
	
	  Emanuel Steward Emanuel Steward
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		He caressed my backside. I had heard that he was famous for his 'admiration' of the ladies, but I didn't expect him to be handling my booty. As handsome as Prince Philip is, I wasn't sure if he was making a pass or just exercising some royal rights to squeeze the foreigners.
	
	  Debbie Reynolds Debbie Reynolds
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		I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis.
	
	  Eric Davis Eric Davis
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		I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?
	
	  Colin Hay
			
			
				Men at Work Colin Hay
			
			
				Men at Work
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		I don't see anything wrong in someone wanting to be famous or having sky-high ambitions.
	
	  Randeep Hooda Randeep Hooda
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		When you become famous, people can have a powerful yet illusory idea of who you are. You want to live your life, but still, you don't want to let anyone down. I know Ed Vedder, Kurt Cobain, Jerry Cantrell, all those guys felt it. They're smart, real, and all of a sudden, they're put on a pedestal.
	
	  Ann Wilson
			
			
				Heart Ann Wilson
			
			
				Heart
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		'Blanche' opened a new door for me without really making me more famous. 'Blanche' was a risk, but that is the only thing that excites me in this profession. The knowledge that I am an actress who takes risks lifts my soul.
	
	  Lou Doillon Lou Doillon
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		The idea of putting out an album is quite exciting because it's sharing your creativity with people. There's no ambition to be famous. I couldn't care less about that.
	
	  Bryan Adams Bryan Adams
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		I'm much more famous than I am rich, but I'm able to scale back my lifestyle. I know a lot of people who were where I was who can't imagine living any simpler, but I haven't got a lot of expensive wants.
	
	  Ali MacGraw Ali MacGraw
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		I'm not the most famous guy in the world; my work is spread out across different mediums, and I never write the same kind of story and rarely even do the same character from one year to the next.
	
	  Doug TenNapel Doug TenNapel
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		Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.
	
	  Penn Jillette Penn Jillette
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		There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold.
	
	  Matt Damon Matt Damon
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		We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove.
	
	  Lew Wasserman Lew Wasserman
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		I've been hitting up Hooters since 1983, and I can assure you nothin' says football season is here quite like watching the game on wall-to-wall flat screen TVs with the smell of Hooters world-famous chicken wings in the air and an ice-cold beer in your hand, served up with one-and-only Hooters hospitality, of course.
	
	  Jon Gruden Jon Gruden
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		Hexapodia as the key insight...I haven’t had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs?
	
	  Vernor Vinge Vernor Vinge
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		You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!
	
	  Brett Somers Brett Somers