Famous Quotes
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Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
Lucius Accius
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Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
Cintra Wilson
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In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.
Andrew Coyle Bradley
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I have an innate fear of fame. I've never thought being famous looked like such a good place to be. I love being incognito.
Phoebe Philo
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Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was 'Romeo & Juliet'? How long were they together? A few days.
Jesse Harris
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When you're famous, no one looks at you as a human anymore. You become the property of the public.
Beyonce Destiny's Child
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Being a famous singer or an international singer - that's my dream, too, but my main goal is to be a real student and be able to graduate and be a lawyer and have my own business.
Charice Pempengco
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Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.
Jennifer Hudson
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Trump survives by Corum's Law. This is a famous, well-tested theory and is named after Bill Corum, who once wrote sports for the Hearst papers when they were in New York.
Jimmy Breslin
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The famous dictum which states that all men are equal will find its illustration in the colonies only when the colonized subject states he is equal to the colonist.
Frantz Fanon
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With Asian-Americans actors, specifically, there's been fewer opportunities for them in TV and film and fewer that have the ability to actually make a career out of it. It becomes a bit of a chicken and egg situation, where they're like, 'Oh, but they're not famous names,' but they haven't had a chance to be in anything yet, either.
Jenny Han
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It feels like Radiohead are famous, but that no one knows who we are. Which is brilliant, really.
Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
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I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.
Kevin Kline
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Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?
Chris Rock
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To be a Southern Ground artist, you have to be a lifer. It's not about winning a karaoke contest or a television show to become famous. It's about really paying your dues. It's people I'm fans of and want to help in the business.
Zac Brown Band
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I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.
Dylan Moran
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I'm the poorest famous person in the country.
Cenk Uygur
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Before I became famous I had a very full life, and that gave me a lot to pick from. I always use everything. It always comes in handy. Working with animals... Well, I just enjoyed that. That was the most peaceful time.
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
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Being famous for fame's sake wasn't the goal when I co-founded the Go-Go's. I just wanted to sing and have a laugh.
Belinda Carlisle
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Be brave and celebrate with us your 'perceived flaws,' as society tells us. May we make our flaws famous, and thus redefine the heinous.
Lady Gaga
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Honestly, this face of mine will always be familiar to people. It's that unique quality, man. If it's a dark and crowded room, people are just able to point me out. I think I'll always be famous. I just hope I don't become infamous.
CeeLo Green
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A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous 'helicopter drop' of money.
Ben Bernanke
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Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.
Bruno Mars
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My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.
A. N. Wilson