Famous Quotes
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Dad was always that way: who's the candidate that's best for this country? We can debate theology later - that was his famous line. I kind of feel like that's in my DNA.
Jerry Falwell, Jr.
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But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.
Carol Burnett
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There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too
Sharon Stone
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Lilliet Berne, La Generale, newly returned to Paris after a year spent away, the Falcon soprano whose voice was so delicate it was rumored she endangered it even by speaking, her silences as famous as her performances.
Alexander Chee
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I think what he's about is being famous.
John Reed
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Being a famous print journalist is like being the best-dressed woman on radio.
Robin Williams
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I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.
Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
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Everyone can have a bad period in their life, but we are famous; we have a lot of things. Sometimes people think we are not human, with no feelings, with no problems.
Alvaro Morata
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You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box, alongside Hans Zimmer.
Cliff Martinez
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The stalkers can get a little scary at times, but I guess all these things are a part of being famous.
Armaan Malik
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I love Texas. Even if I am a little bit famous or a little bit popular... You go to places where you're not and just live like everybody else lives. I'm not crazy about this country in terms of the shape it's in, but I do think there are lots of great pieces to go to. I think I should take advantage of it while this country still exists.
Winona Ryder
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I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Once you start telling people you're famous, they believe you.
Melissa de la Cruz
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I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.
Martin Yan
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I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.
Sarah Jessica Parker
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Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.
William Saroyan
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By success, of course, I do not mean that you may become rich, famous, or powerful for that does not, of necessity, represent achievement. Indeed, not infrequently, such individuals represent pathetic failure as persons.
Norman Vincent Peale
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'How come you didn’t recognize me?' Hentman said crossly. 'Aren’t I world-famous? Or maybe you don’t watch TV.'
Philip K. Dick
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What makes the Stones' arrogance so divine is that we all believe that long ago and far away they weren't rich and famous but poor and struggling, just like us.
Jon Landau
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We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in.
Scott Westerfeld
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We all can't be famous but we can all be great and we become great when we serve others.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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You do a job like mine because you love the job, not because it's going to make you famous.
Ray Winstone
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I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life.
Rik Mayall
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When I was younger, I remember there was a really famous book, and it was called 'The People Could Fly.' And so this idea of, kind of like, black characters kind of jumping into space and kind of the challenge that they presented to gravity I thought was really interesting.
Rashid Johnson