THIS EDITION: fame
Dedicated to Anthony Burt: Erudite, liberal-hearted friend of conservative values, best fireside and car-ride companion of a lifetime, another reason to hope for something… after.
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Quoted in the Grove:
Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.
~Gloria Swanson
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
~Gene Tierney
From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That’s the rule of life.
~Lata Mangeshkar
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If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
~Oprah Winfrey
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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
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else ‒ very rarely to those who say to themselves, ‘Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!’.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
In many cases, people who win a Nobel prize, their work slows down after that because of the distractions. Yes, fame is rewarding, but it’s a pity if it keeps you from doing the work you are good at.
~Charles H Townes
One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.
~William McFee
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I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.
~David Mallet
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
~Socrates
Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
~Pericles
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
~Jean Genet
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Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
~George William Curtis
I don’t ever want it to be about me. A friend of mine told me, ‘The difference between fame and notoriety is fame is when people know you, and notoriety is when people know your work.’ The first one is not respectable, but the second one is, because that leaves a legacy.
~Troy Baker
Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you’re trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.
~Justin Theroux
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I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It’s more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.
~Lloyd Banks
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
~Emily Dickinson
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I’d like to have the fortune, but I don’t care too much about the fame.
~J J Cale
Fame is really strange. One day you’re not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the rules all still apply ‒ yet everyone looks at you differently.
~Matt Damon
I don’t think about my fame very much.
~Calvin Klein
I feel like fame is wasted on me.
~Ben Affleck
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I actually like ‒ if I may use the F word ‒ fame. I like people stopping me in the street and saying, ‘Can I have a photo?’
~Frank Skinner
I think I have the perfect level of fame. 99% of the time, I’m a normal person. But once a day someone comes up to say hello, and it’s beautiful.
~Philip Rosenthal
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Fame makes me feel wanted and loved, anybody wants that.
~Michael Hutchence
That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
~Lady Gaga
The fame game’s fun, but it’s not forever.
~Caroline Flack
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Some aspects of the fame are annoying, but at the end of the day it’s something we’re most grateful for. It’s certainly opened the door to a whole new batch of opportunities.
~Ryan Ross
With fame, I’m able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.
~Cyndi Lauper
I’m not striving for fame, that’s for sure. I don’t particularly like the idea of celebrity. I would like to be successful with my music, so I realise that there’s a balance to be made there.
~Jamie Lawson
I’m already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You’re in a vacuum if you don’t have a certain amount of fame.
~B D Wong
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it’s losing friends or losing family.
~Young Jeezy
With fame, you can’t trust everybody. You can’t depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you’ve got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you’ve got and what you can bring to their life. It’s not a relationship‒it’s a leech.
~Chris Brown
I guess I don’t have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don’t think I’d like it.
~Calvin Klein
To me, the whole idea of fame and I think it can be a real test of somebody, of who they are. You know, ’cause some strange things happen. I’ve seen some peculiar things as far as a person just living their life.
~Tobey Maguire
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My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.
~Leonardo DiCaprio
You’re either humble or you’re not. If you were a jerk before the fame, you just become a jerk with a bigger spotlight. Whoever you are really comes through.
~Oprah Winfrey
Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will magnify it.
~Alanis Morissette
If you allow fame to get the better of you, you become nuisance, a public nuisance, a nuisance as a friend, as a member of the family, a nuisance to yourself.
~Dilip Kumar
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The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
~George Santayana
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
~Gilbert K Chesterton
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Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing.
~Robert Green Ingersoll
Fame is short-lived, and you’re the last to know when you are no longer hot.
~George Lazenby
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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.
~Edward Norton
Fame for fame’s sake is toxic ‒ some people want that, with no boundaries. It’s unhealthy.
~Annie Lennox
I’m not stupid enough to think that I can deal with another 10 or 15 years of major exposure. I think that is the ultimate tragedy of fame… People who are simply out of control, who are lost. I’ve seen so many of them, and I don’t want to be another cliché.
~George Michael
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Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.
~Tiger Woods
Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
~Lucius Accius
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Fame is like being at a party and getting invited into the cool room even the VIPs can’t get into, then the even cooler, more exclusive room after that. Eventually, you end up in a cubicle on your own, asking, ‘Am I having fun?’
~Noel Fielding
I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.
~Stephen Rea
George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I’ve ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy.
~Alvin Lee
Fondness for fame is avarice of air.
~Edward Young
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
~Billy Connolly
All fame is is having people you don’t know coming up to you and saying, ‘Hello.’ I’m always polite and people are always nice, but it’s weird.
~Karl Pilkington
Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don’t see yourself.
~Benedict Cumberbatch
I know I have this level of celebrity… but it’s a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you’re in the middle of another famous person’s life and you think to yourself, ‘How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we’re in?’
~Kevin Costner
People think being famous is fun. It’s not. Even a little bit of fame. It’s bizarre. It’s weird.
~Steve Lukather
Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.
~Marlo Thomas
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Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name.
~Joni Mitchell
Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
~Erica Jong
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
~Lord Byron
The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people’s obsession. I feel watched 90% of the time, but that is something I drew with the cards that I drew.
~Dionne Warwick
With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you…
~Marilyn Monroe
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I think it’s really important for celebrities to use their power of money and fame to get their voices out there. It’s funny to me that we’re expected to keep quiet just because of who we are. Why do I lose my right to speak my mind because I’m famous?
~Lisa Edelstein
If you’re lucky enough to be famous, then it’s great if you can use your fame and the power your fame gives you to draw attention to things that really matter.
~Michael Schumacher
I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I’ve been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don’t get a chance to be heard.
~Shakira
With fame comes opportunity, but in my opinion, it also includes responsibility ‒ to advocate and share, to focus less on glass slippers and more on pushing through glass ceilings and, if I’m lucky enough, then to inspire.
~Meghan Markle
That’s one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.
~Jeff Bridges
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I’m not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy.
~Ted Nugent
And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the “mob” – a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.
~Camille Paglia
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The clock has been turned back on racial progress in America, though scarcely anyone seems to notice. All eyes are fixed on people like Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey who have defied the odds and achieved great power, wealth, and fame.
~Michelle Alexander
If you have money and you have fame, but you don’t have any confidence in your blackness, then it’s all for nothing.
~Paul Mooney
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One to destroy, is murder by the law;
and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;
to murder thousands, takes a specious name,
‘War’s glorious art’, and gives immortal fame.
~Edward Young
I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
~William Tecumseh Sherman
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
~Sun Tzu
A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame.
~Sun Tzu
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In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn’t delineate between legal and illegal.
~Rick Warren
From the depths of the West of Europe, a young child will be born of poor people, he who by his tongue will seduce a great troop; his fame will increase towards the realm of the East.
~Nostradamus
THIS Duty implies that we should affectionately interest ourselves in whatever concerns the Honour, the Fame and Security of our Sovereign and his Government.
~Charles Inglis (Anglican bishop)
American culture worships explorers ‒ look at the fame of Lewis and Clark, for example. The American people want to think of themselves as supporting exploration.
~Nathan Myhrvold
You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.
~Alan Shepard
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Fame for me is like a place, a country I’m taking a tour through.
~Dave Chappelle
Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names.
~Mary Hunter Austin
At the height of our fame, we didn’t see anything. We didn’t leave the hotel because we were doing interviews all day. We may have traveled the world, but we saw nothing.
~Curt Smith
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When I come to reflect on the subject, in no country have I received such honors or been so esteemed as in Italy, and nothing contributes more to a man’s fame than to have written Italian operas, and especially for Naples.
~Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I believe India has multi-talented people, so I have also embarked on my journey as an actor. I don’t need to be a celebrity, since tennis has already given fame to me.
~Leander Paes
I love the people to see me as gold medal, Hall of Fame, world champion that knows how to make the world news and how to come from oldest counrty in the world to be most famous Iranian in the history.
~The Iron Sheik
People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.
~Jackie Collins
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Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
~Benjamin Disraeli
I believe spiritualism is above everything, and I would choose it over name, fame, and money because spiritualism gives you power, and I love power.
~Rajinikanth
If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
~Narendra Modi
Fact is, famous people say fame stinks because they love it so ‒ like a secret restaurant or holiday island they don’t want the hoi polloi to get their grubby paws on.
~Julie Burchill
A life lived with integrity – even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
~Denis Waitley
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The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.
~Leonardo da Vinci
At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.
~Leon Askin
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~Lady Gaga: FAME (0:33) a commercial: 1st) imagine it, 2nd) compare your vision with hers
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~Glass & Marker: Virool: Fame (3:35) goop that makes fame
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~Dadi Dreucol: Fame (1:00) the artist: before, becoming after
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Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings.
~Shakira
The thing that is cool about my come up is that I dealt with fame and having money gradually. It didn’t happen overnight. It was something that took a while to happen. It was something that humbled me and made me very appreciative of my blessings more than I would have been if it had happened faster and easier.
~Trey Songz
Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.
~Eminem
I was not prepared for fame. It hit me hard, and I did not have the capacity to cope.
~Al Pacino
Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there’s no manual, no training course.
~Charlie Sheen
You can’t win fame; you have to earn it. If you’re given fame without working for it, then you’re not going to be ready for it.
~Lemmy
If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
~Patrick Swayze
I wouldn’t know how I would have coped with The Beatles’ sort of fame.
~Noel Redding
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Fame does lead to money, which I don’t have a close relationship with. I’m the kind of guy who never sees the money ‒ it all goes somewhere else. I don’t understand it, I don’t like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.
~David Duchovny
Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.
~Wilhelm Steinitz
That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.
~Mike Tyson
Like every poor person, I used to dream about winning the lottery. I didn’t just get money, though. I got fame. And I got fame before I got money, and it was scary.
~Amber Rose
If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
~Jack London
It’s funny ‒ nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don’t have the money to hide from it.
~Matt LeBlanc
I don’t care about money or fame or anything like that, but it would be a perk.
~Lucas Grabeel
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How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.
~Leonardo da Vinci
The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
~P T Barnum
No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
~Charles Sumner
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To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.
~Charles Churchill
I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame.
~Pietro Aretino
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I love being an older comic now. It’s like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You’re in the Hall of Fame and it’s nice, but you’re no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.
~Eric Idle
I think my level of fame will drop back down. I think it’ll recede. In fact, I know it will. That’s life on Planet Earth. And I’m okay with that. Besides getting tables at restaurants and special treatment at the airport, what else is there?
~Tina Fey
Fame is only good for one thing ‒ they will cash your check in a small town.
~Truman Capote
I don’t need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I’m happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I’m happy my day is done. It’s over.
~Dan Aykroyd
Fame is the thirst of youth.
~Lord Byron
Fame and success and awards should never be the aim. The aim should be: Are you enjoying the making of the thing?
~Brett Goldstein
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Never underestimate the power of being popular in pop culture. You have to be able to do something. You can have a good seat at the restaurant, but you still have to pay for the meal. Fame is important, but to be rich is more important.
~Gene Simmons
I’ve never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can’t say I would turn my back on fortune. I’m someone who enjoys the benefits of money.
~Joan Collins
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People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.
~Dolly Parton
First of all, plain and simple, you have no real idea of what it means to be famous until you become famous. It’s a double-edged sword. Obviously there are a lot of amazing things about fame, but there are also a lot of challenging things about it.
~Michelle Pfeiffer
Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.
~Sandra Bullock
There are a lot of perks that come with fame, and with every positive there’s a negative, and then it all kind of balances out.
~Ashton Kutcher
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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
~Erma Bombeck
Don’t expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madonna: she’s not the best singer in the world, but she’s got where she has through hard work.
~Rick Astley
Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.
~Euripides
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I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I’m in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
~Eddie Van Halen
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
~J K Rowling
I had no preconceived idea what fame would be like, because I never thought I would be famous. I just wanted to do my work. Hell, I just wanted to pay my rent on time.
~Iyanla Vanzant
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
~Fran Lebowitz
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I have never wanted to be famous, as such ‒ fame is a by-product.
~Steve Coogan
Fame is an upshot of what I do. If you’re a successful comedian or actor, then you’re a famous one. But it’s not the driving force. It’s a by-product.
~Ricky Gervais
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I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.
~Angelina Jolie
When you have had the kind of fame I had, I was always hounded by the media and I lived a very isolated life. Now it’s even more difficult. The world has changed dramatically.
~David Cassidy
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One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish.
~Bill O’Reilly
There’s a funny thing about fame. The truth is you run as fast as you can towards it because it’s everything you want. Not just the fame but what it represents, meaning work, meaning opportunity. And then you get there, and it’s shocking how immediately you become enveloped in this world that is incredibly restricting.
~George Clooney
…The fame restricts that. It’s a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don’t like ‒ and the fact that it’s not reversible.
~J Cole
One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.
~Nellie Melba
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Fame does different things to different people. For some people it makes them a better person.
~Andy Cohen
Something happens to people around fame and power and money ‒ it can bring out the worst and best in people; it’s a monster you have to tame.
~Lisa Marie Presley
Fame is a beast that you can’t control or be prepared for.
~Tom Holland
An odd beast, fame. It’s got multiple personalities.
~Woody Harrelson
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Acting is a life experience. I’m always learning things when I’m making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.
~Kate Bosworth
Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That’s why I get tired of hearing actors who try to make out that there’s a downside to it. Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it’s really not bad.
~John Corbett
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I’m terrified of being too famous. What I’m really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it’s me, that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities.
~Noomi Rapace
Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.
~Famke Janssen
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There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.
~Rihanna
I think fame is such a scary thing, and it’s something I can never understand. It’s terrifying, but it’s the only way I get to do what I love every day, you know?
~Alessia Cara
Follow your passion. Nothing ‒ not wealth, success, accolades or fame ‒ is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don’t enjoy.
~Jonathan Sacks
Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.
~Marilyn Monroe
People confuse fame with validation or love. But fame is not the reward. The reward is getting fulfillment out of doing the thing you love.
~Claire Danes
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Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it’s in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men ‒ they all want it.
~Karrine Steffans
I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don’t know why anyone would want to be famous. I can’t imagine what need that would fill.
~Jessica Cutler
A lot of people are like, ‘So you want to be famous.’ And I’m like, ‘No, I want to be good at my craft. ’
~Chloe Moretz
When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn’t about fame. It was about acting.
~Maggie Smith
Fame and stuff like that is all very cool, but at the end of the day, we’re all human beings. Although what I do is incredibly surreal and fun and amazing and I’m really grateful for it, I don’t believe my own press release, do you know what I mean?
~Tom Hardy
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I owe my whole acting career to the fact that I’m a singer. I went out to Los Angeles and auditioned for a TV show called ‘Fame L.A.‘ The original role was for a comedian, but they said I wasn’t very funny, so they asked me, ‘What else can you do?’ So I played a singer.
~Christian Kane
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If you want to be an actor, you must have total, ruthless commitment to your art. Don’t be ambitious for fame or TV or movies. Art is a jealous mistress and will brook no competitors. Study all the time. Never stop reading. Never stop learning speeches. It will fill you up ‒ define and refine you.
~Steven Berkoff
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I can’t watch my first audition because it makes me too upset. I just think it is really sad. I look at myself and don’t recognize myself. I do think fame and fortune changes people.
~Rebecca Ferguson
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Fame was initially this kind of blunt tool that was thrust into my hands very young.
~Josh Hartnett
There’s a theory about fame: the moment it strikes, it arrests development. Michael Jackson remained suspended in childhood, enjoying sleepovers and funfairs; Winona Ryder, an errant teen who dabbled in shoplifting and experimented with pills; George Clooney, a 30-year-old commitment-phobe, never quite ready yet to settle down.
~Jemima Khan
Here’s my theory: If a person gets worldwide fame at a young age, they’re emotionally frozen at that moment. For me, that’s 15 to 18, so you find yourself in your mid-20s being a glorified 15-year-old. What could possibly go wrong?
~Rob Lowe
I think it’s child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it’s at the cost of someone’s natural development. It’s already hard enough to develop.
~Alanis Morissette
What a heavy burden is a name that has too soon become famous.
~Voltaire
The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
~Arthur Schopenhauer
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I’m the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt ‒ how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along.
~Armistead Maupin
It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the ’50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!
~Thom Gunn
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~Omeleto: Sandpaper (15:50) not about fame, but becoming
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~Omeleto: Blurred Lines (11:53) music, court case reenactment, quality depiction
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The only thing worse than being in the Hall of Fame is not being in the Hall of Fame.
~Tom Waits (Alice)
Every musician, their goal in life is to play music that people love, and I’ve accomplished my goal. I was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and left that chapter of my life and those people in the past. Good and bad, I’ve loved and am thankful for that chapter.
~Steven Adler (November Rain)
People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, ‘OK, I’ve done it all,’ but for me, it was a new beginning.
~Jimmy Cliff (I Can See Clearly Now)
It’s very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it’s really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.
~Tom Petty (American Girl)
I love the Country Music Hall of Fame. I don’t think it’s just a hall of fame and it’s not just a museum. It’s a schoolhouse. It’s a place where people from all across the world can come and learn about this great genre that we’re making a living out of.
~Josh Turner (Would You Go With Me)
I am one of the biggest Laura Nyro fans. I still listen to that stuff incessantly. Laura Nyro does not belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Songwriter Hall of Fame? Absolutely.
~Paul Stanley (Eli’s Comin’, Wedding Bell Blues, Stoned Soul Picnic, etc)
I have never been accepted. I’ll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They’re never going to let me in.
~Nancy Sinatra (not These Boots Were Made…, but Sugar Town)
I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I’d always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.
~Brenda Lee (Jambalaya)
I think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first of all, has got to be put into the context of being an American cultural showcase. It’s there to be a museum showcase of all that’s great about American music.
~Ian Anderson (Thick As A Brick)
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Cape Cod baseball dates back to the time of the Civil War. A poster at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown touts a round-trip train ride from Hyannis to Sandwich on July 4, 1885 ‒ the occasion of the 14th annual baseball game between Sandwich and Barnstable.
~Jane Leavy
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In general, when you have success on the field, you’re more popular, and you have that fame that comes with it. You realize you’re in the public eye more, and you’ve got to be a little bit more careful about some of the things you’re doing out in public and make sure you’re smart about the things you say.
~Aaron Rodgers (NFL, pending)
I don’t think there’s any honor bigger than going to your Hall of Fame for your sport.
~Pete Rose (MLB, ineligible, likely heartbroken)
I never figured I’d go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
~Yogi Berra (MLB 1972)
I always wanted to say I came out of the cornfields and got to the major leagues. That was my biggest thought. But now I can say I came out of the cornfields and got to the Hall of Fame.
~Ray Dandridge (MLB 1987)
I’ll take anyway to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy, I’ll go in as a batboy.
~Phil Rizzuto (MLB 1994)
When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn’t win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I’m proud to be in this company that way.
~Eddie Murray (MLB 2003)
Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.
~Wade Boggs (MLB 2005)
The 50 greatest players don’t matter when you’re in the Hall of Fame. We all know that I was not one of the 50 greatest, I was one of the 25 greatest ‒ in my mind.
~Dominique Wilkins (NBA 2006)
People always ask me why I still want to play, but I want to know why no one will give me an opportunity. It’s like they put a stamp on me: ‘Hall of Fame. You’re done. That’s it.’
~Rickey Henderson (MLB 2009 ‒ after 25 seasons)
If I should get selected into the Hall of Fame, I’d be able to say ‘thank you’ to all the legends that are in the Hall of Fame… It’s going to be like a dream come true.
~Jerry Rice (NFL 2010)
If you can prove a guy did cheat, then I don’t believe he belongs. I don’t believe that there are any guys that did cheat, in that respect, that are in the Hall of Fame. So I think opening up the doors to guys that admittedly cheated or are proven that they did cheat, it kills the integrity of what the Hall of Fame stands for.
~Barry Larkin (MLB 2012)
When I was inducted into the Hall of Fame, Donald Trump was inducted on the same night. When I was done with my speech, he came over to me and said I could light up New York City if they could plug me into it.
~Bob Backlund (WWE 2116)
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I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best of the year. It’s a nod to the longevity of our accomplishment.
~Chuck D (rapper)
I came from nothing and achieved humungous fame and fortune. But I worked hard. I had discipline and determination. I had that ice in me.
~Sugar Ray Leonard (world title 5 different weight classes)
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You know, watching Dan Marino and Steve Young get nominated to the Hall of Fame… those guys are unbelievable and they did it for so long. I’d love to play like those guys, but there’s still a long way to go and a lot of growing.
~Tom Brady (eligible 2028)
As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy… there’s something about winning a Super Bowl.
~Terry Bradshaw (1989)
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Even though the money is great and the fame is great, you still have a lot of disenfranchised young men that are participating in the NFL that are not very happy. A lot of them are very bitter. A lot them are very angry. So many of them have had no fathers and no home life, and basically, no education.
~Jim Brown
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.
~Patch Adams
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§ MUSIC:
We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
~Young Thug
You gotta remember: we’re musicians… we’re just crazy people who can’t get along sometimes. I’ve definitely come to the table with my knife in my pocket a couple of times; you know how it is. It’s part of being human. Now add fame and money and all that rock and roll craziness to it ‒ we’re lucky we don’t eat each other in this industry!
~Corey Taylor (Slipknot)
You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it’s kind of a lifestyle and it’s easy to get caught up in it ‒ you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone’s doing a certain thing… It’s tough.
~Eminem
In the beginning, we might have been focused on totally just music and being famous, just wanting to have fame and make hot music, but as we got older, we had to understand that this is a business and that our moves need to be calculated.
~Prodigy
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My happiness doesn’t come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.
~Nicki Minaj
I don’t run after money or fame. The only thing I have always wished is to be a classical singer.
~Asha Bhosle
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I think have my own style; no one has ever tried playback singing before. I might release a punk rock song that perhaps other won’t appreciate, but I like doing my own thing. I make music for my own satisfaction, not for money or fame.
~Atif Aslam
Making music is what drives me ‒ not awards, not Internet fame, not even exorbitant amounts of money. My fans call themselves ‘Aadeez,’ and they are the most loyal lot. I make my music for them. I love them.
~Atif Aslam
Success is very intoxicating. It is very difficult to handle all the fame and adulation. It corrupts you. You start to believe that everybody around you is in awe of you, that everybody wants you, and that everybody is thinking of you all the time.
~Ajith Kumar
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If you wanna be famous, then it’s okay if the music is fake, because fame isn’t real.
~Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age)
I’m not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I’m not a rock star. I’m not in it for the fame, I’m in it because I like to play.
~Eddie Van Halen
When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.
~Eddie Van Halen
A few can touch the magic string,
and noisy fame is proud to win them:
Alas for those that never sing,
but die with all their music in them!
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
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Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.
~Kirk Douglas
I really tried to take advantage of my 15 minutes of fame. And I’ve gotten lucky ‒ those 15 minutes have become several years.
~Colleen Ballinger
If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn’t care.
~Brigitte Bardot
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Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?
~Anne Frank
I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn’t want money. I didn’t care about fame.
~Christine Lahti
The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
~Amelia Earhart
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Fame and success are very different things.
~Enya
I’m not a big fan of fame; I’m a big fan of success.
~J Balvin
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Fame or perceived success ‒ it all comes from groupthink.
~Chance The Rapper
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Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
~Benjamin Disraeli
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
~Baruch Spinoza
Some to the fascination of a name surrender judgment, hoodwinked.
~William Cowper
Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don’t care about fame, I don’t care about being a celebrity. I know that’s part of the job, but I don’t feed into anyone’s idea of who I should be.
~Jessica Alba
I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.
~J Cole
You won’t change, don’t adapt, then you cry,
You be less famous, more extinct when you die.
~author unknown
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Nothing will stifle your human evolution more than fame and fortune.
~Patti Smith
Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
~David Bowie
People care about my fame, not me. But that’s fine. I have my own life.
~Josh Hartnett
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
~Desiderius Erasmus
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~Lady Gaga: Paparazzi (7:11) glamoured backdrop
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~Lady Gaga: Shallow (3:36) the classic
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~Donna Summer: Fame (4:03) doesn’t take kindly to fame
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~Jaegerfilm: Adekunle Gold • Fame (3:09) fame :: alone, same same
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~Brown Alien: The Fame Game (4:18) models, party time, a vacancy in evidence
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~hastalasvenska2: eminem • Almost Famous (4:51) disenchanted
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~Britney Spears: Piece of Me (3:10) saucy, why everybody wants some
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~NNAMDÏ: I Don’t Wanna Be Famous (2:43) surrounded by exotic trappings and luxury, a disclaimer
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~David Bowie: Fame (3:45) Mr Bowie’s pensive/acrobatic take on it
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
~Sallust
A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to have intellectual and spiritual conversations with someone who was on the same page as me.
~Nick Cannon
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Show me an actor who doesn’t want to be famous, and I’ll show you a liar. Later, you realise that there’s more to it than just the acquisition of fame, and money and girls. But that is what drives them and was what drove me, initially.
~Kevin Bacon
This is why I wanted to be different and why I wanted to have power and fame and money: because I wanted to be attractive to the opposite sex. I’d be lying to you if I didn’t say that was a big part of it.
~Michael Buble
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
~Jean-Paul Sartre
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When I was a child, I used to dream about being onstage in front of thousands of people, and it happened. It’s not about the fame; it’s about people being touched.
~Fantasia Barrino
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The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.
~Barack Obama
I have been in love with my wife since I was 17. She has always been my strongest support. Even when I didn’t have this fame, she was there.
~Fawad Khan
It’s about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else.
~Ismail Merchant
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A REAL man would never lead a woman on, try to humiliate or hurt them, or try to intimidate them once you have broken up for the sake of more camera time or fame.
~Kenya Moore
I find ‘Fatal Attraction’ really romantic. I really like the seduction. Almost every time I see it, I’m surprised when it goes dark. I know that’s the claim to fame, but I key into how genuinely romantic it is.
~Shane Carruth
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The last thing I want is to die and then be put into the Hall of Fame. It’s not because I won’t be there to enjoy it, exactly. It’s because I want to enjoy it with family and friends and fans. I want to see them enjoy it.
~Ron Santo
These things were happening in my life where I was like, ‘Man, I wish my pops was here to see this.’ I never had those thoughts before fame, when my life was just a regular life. I wasn’t saying, ‘I wish my dad could be around and see me working at Applebee’s.’
~Kid Cudi
I sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame.
~Jeff Buckley
My father was into fame and leaving his mark. He was a city planner, sort of a genius in that world, the Robert Moses of Philadelphia. He was on the cover of ‘Time‘ once, and I remember going to his office and seeing, like, two hundred copies, which he would hand out to people.
~Kevin Bacon
Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.
~Richard Branson
I’m in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I’m still very troubled by the fact that I’m in the hall and my dad [Pat Boone] isn’t.
~Debby Boone
For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
~Aeschylus
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My friends are all really nice about my fame, they’re just curious really, they ask lots of questions.
~Emma Watson
I’m not after fame and success and fortune and power. It’s mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that’s the good stuff in life.
~Drew Barrymore
Every day, I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends who help me do this.
~Bruce Willis
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I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it.
~George Clooney
As far as friendships go, things change even without the fame. People start moving on. I have a few friends that are married and are starting to have kids and I’m like, ‘Oh my goodness gracious ‒ that’s so insane.’ I also have friends who are just doing their own thing, which is cool.
~Jordin Sparks
You get people who come to London, sever links with where they come from, and then when they need people, there’s nobody there. To feel like you can’t go back home would be a horribly sad place to be, as is mistaking fame for genuine love and affection.
~Johnny Vegas
I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.
~Robin Gibb
I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.
~Robert M Pirsig
Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.
~Emilio Estevez
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Fame is a lot of pressure, especially when you’re responsible for your entire family. Financially, emotionally ‒ everything.
~Nick Carter
What really broke it down was I had my son while I was locked up, so that really affected me. I can’t really have this, knowing my father was locked up when I was small. So that really out of everything ‒ through the fame, the money, everything ‒ that really put the toll on me: ‘Oh yeah, I gotta change.’
~Lil Durk
It’s about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don’t matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have…
~Vanilla Ice
What’s the reason I’m playing basketball? I do it because I love it, I do it because of my family, and that’s it. I don’t do it because of the money. I don’t do it because of the fame. I just do it because I love it, and I do it for my family because my family enjoys it.
~Giannis Antetokounmpo
There’s only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing. Sometimes you can avoid a traffic violation. But the only time it really matters is in the emergency room with your kids. That’s when you want to be noticed, because it’s very easy to get forgotten in an ER.
~Bill Murray
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I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.
~Steve Martin
Twenty-two years I’ve been doing this comedy lark, so it’s been like a meteoric rise to fame… if the meteor was being dragged by an arthritic donkey across a ploughed field, in northern Poland.
~Bill Bailey
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Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn’t eligible for another fifteen years.
~Conan O’Brien
Fame changes a lot of things, but it can’t change a lightbulb.
~Gilda Radner
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It is a challenge, with the global fame, to try to act like I put my pants on one leg at a time, when in fact I have Pippa Middleton help me put my pants on every morning. She’s my lady-in-waiting as well.
~Kathy Griffin
I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don’t want any of the other stuff.
~Matthew Broderick
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The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.
~Frank Ocean
I’ve always said that fame is fleeting, but anonymity can last a lifetime.
~Joe Johnston
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Ambition has but one reward for all:
A little power, a little transient fame;
A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
~Walter Savage Landor
Fame ‒ a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
~Christian Nestell Bovee
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
~Horace Greeley
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
~Al Goldstein
I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.
~Robert Mapplethorpe (died of AIDS, but did)
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
~Charles Caleb Colton
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I am not concerned about my posthumous fame. Monuments are no good to the dead.
~Varg Vikernes
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
~Marcus Valerius Martial
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Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were friends and the last people I expected would predecease me. They were, in a sense, casualties of fame.
~Barry Humphries
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
~Blaise Pascal
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Don’t cling to fame. You’re just borrowing it. It’s like money. You’re going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.
~Sonny Bono
Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends ‒ there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless ‒ be unhappy ‒ and die a bankrupt in soul.
~George Matthew Adams
Integrity of life is fame’s best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.
~John Webster
When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.
~Michael Huffington
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
~Friedrich Schiller
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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
~Vicki Baum
There’s probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.
~Diablo Cody
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If I’m such a legend, why am I so lonely?
~Judy Garland
Fame doesn’t end loneliness.
~Claire Danes
I think it’s easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.
~Sophia Bush
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I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.
~Brenda Blethyn
Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase.
~Noel Gallagher
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If you chase fame, you make bad choices. Being famous isn’t interesting.
~Justin Theroux
Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing.
~Thomas Fuller
There’s no difference between fame and infamy now. There’s a new school of professional famous people that don’t do anything. They don’t create anything.
~Ricky Gervais
I think if you’re fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk… why do that? I don’t understand how some people would want fame so bad that they’d go out and get negative attention to earn it.
~Zac Efron
I couldn’t lie to get myself fame and fortune.
~Dave Pelzer
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Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
~Dante Alighieri
He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.
~Samuel Johnson
I have an ambition to write a great book, but that’s really a competition with myself. I’ve noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don’t really want to do anything. I can’t think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
~Zadie Smith
Is fame without purpose and is fame without talent really where we are now? People used to be famous for what they did. Now, they’re just famous.
~John Carroll Lynch
Unfortunately, I think a lot of people are affected more by the idea of fame than the actual work ethic involved. A lot of them just want to be reality TV-type people who don’t do anything.
~Katy Perry
I can’t imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.
~Kat Dennings
Fame comes and fame goes, but you have to be able to laugh about yourself and to take it with a grain of salt.
~Khloe Kardashian
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From Here to There
© Silvia Trujillo
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In Italian there is an expression: We don’t sleep on the fame.
~Donatella Versace
If you would acquire fame, let not the sun shine on you in bed.
Spanish Proverb
Who has the fame to be an early riser may sleep till noon.
~James Howell
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The way to fame is like the way to heaven, through much tribulation.
~Laurence Sterne
The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christian religion is retreating everywhere and losing more and more influence; film has filled the vacuum and supports us with myths and action-controlling images.
~John Updike
It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.
~Nicolas Caussin
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Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements ‒ it’s not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.
~Adam Clayton
Fame is like a big piece of meringue ‒ it’s beautiful, and you keep eating it, but it doesn’t really fill you up.
~Pierce Brosnan
Fame is like caviar, you know ‒ it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
~Marilyn Monroe
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Fame infantilises and grants relative impunity. Those that seek it, out of an exaggerated need for admiration or attention, are often the least well equipped to deal with criticism.
~Jemima Khan
Fame and insecurity don’t usually mix well. Though the fame maybe easily attainable, acceptance by the masses to one’s satisfaction, usually isn’t.
~Robert Black
He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
~William Gilmore Simms
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I’m shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I’ve done everything I can to avoid it.
~Johnny Depp
Fame is a curse… it was the worst phase of my life, which I thank God I’ll never have to go through again.
~Sinead O’Connor
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
~Michel de Montaigne
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To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn’t art, but the person you become when you’re famous ‒ your alter ego ‒ that’s art.
~Cardi B
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Name, and not fame is the exact yardstick because fame is transitory, and in our times, fame is vulgar because it can actually be bought.
~Sandeep Balakrishna
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Fame is morally neutral.
~Edward R Murrow
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Fame is neither something to value nor to view as a threat.
~Adrienne Posey
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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
~William Hazlitt
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Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
~Arthur Schopenhauer
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Fame exhausts me.
~Alice Walker
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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
~John Wooden
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Fame doesn’t matter; people approving of you doesn’t matter. And if it does matter, you’re in store for something very difficult and painful.
~Beth Hart
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People are looking for fame or a focus, and I can’t provide that.
~Will Oldham (troubadour)
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
~Francis Bacon
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The only thing fame has changed in Wizkid is that I added some accessories. I have got nice chains, watches, and nice clothes. Asides that, I am still Wizkid. I no tall, still same height.
~WizKid
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Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn’t advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn’t wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy.
~Emma Watson
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When we came out from the Elysee palace, there was a gigantic limousine waiting for us and four police on motorcycles. It is probably one of the few times I have experienced my fame. I thought it was so fantastic that I laughed to the point of shouting.
~Ingmar Bergman
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We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn’t that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.
~Donnie Wahlberg
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well; and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
~Chanakya
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How can a song all about struggling with the afterglow of fame thrust someone into fame? How can a lyric like, ‘I’m just a singer who already blew his shot,’ give a singer another shot? I don’t know… but it’s funny.
~Mike Posner
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@Writers Platform:
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
~A A Milne
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even… without any hope of doing it well.
~Oliver Herford
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
~Jean Cocteau
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If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
~Bodhidharma
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
~Thomas Fuller
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The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
~Robert South
Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It’s not really any very heady fame.
~Peter Carey
I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled ‒ all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you ‒ stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.
~Anne Lamott
Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.
~David Bowie
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
~Moliere
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All my life, I have taken inventory at intervals. For example, when I became a movie actor and suddenly I had to deal with fame, money and playing so many roles, I lost myself. I said, ‘Who am I?’ And I wrote my first book to deal with that, ‘The Ragman’s Son.’
~Kirk Douglas
I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
~Alice Walker
It’s not the lives of men or their fame that move the times forward, but their words. If we knew to string them in their best order, one might divine eternal answers.
~author unknown
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Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.
~Jane Austen
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
~Blaise Pascal
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
~W H Auden
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Let judges secretly despair of justice:
their verdicts will be more acute.
Let generals secretly despair of triumph;
killing will be defamed.
Let priests secretly despair of faith:
their compassion will be true.
~Leonard Cohen
Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
~Abbott L Lowell
Wisdom alone is true ambition’s aim,
wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame,
obtained with labour, for mankind employed,
and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
~William Whitehead
Fame is what you have taken,
character is what you give;
when to this truth you waken
then you begin to live.
~Bayard Taylor
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Prewritten Prompt: fame
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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
Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.
~Marilyn Monroe
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
~Emily Dickinson
All is temporary and ephemeral—fame and the famous, as well.
~Marcus Aurelius
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Fame is a fickle thing that only lasts as long as you can be out there offering yourself to the public. And as soon as you relax for five minutes, they’re gone, you know, and they’re following somebody else.
~Jesse Stone
Fame is fleeting. My numbers mean more to me than my name.
~Vera Rubin (astronomer)
Fame is a constant effort.
~Jules Renard
They say fame is important and that maintaining your fame is even more important. But to me, the most important thing is to deserve the respect of your fans.
~Juan Gabriel
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It’s not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.
~David Cassidy
I never cared about money or fame, and I don’t care now. I follow the groove, and money always follows.
~Quincy Jones
Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you’re good enough.
~Max Walker
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There is much to life than fame and fortune. If you are a part of the entertainment industry, please remember it is all temporary.
~Sangram Singh
I think fame is hard in any capacity. It’s so fleeting; it’s not anything that you can really grab.
~Melissa Rauch
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In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.
~Annette Funicello
The ultimate dream is a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
~Thalia
They are going to be playing Shaggy and Scooby-Doo for eons and eons, and they’re going to forget Casey Kasem ‒ unless they happen to step on his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. I’ll be one of those guys people say, ‘Who’s that?’ about. And someone else will say, ‘He’s just some guy who used to be on the radio.’
~Casey Kasem (early TV)
Having your work be the basis of fame, that’s a far more stable feeling.
~Nicole Kidman
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I’m not motivated by money or fame. I’m more driven by the electricity of creativity. The idea of being one of the legends that inspired me, being like Tupac.
~Vic Mensa
My dreams are bigger than money; they’re bigger than fame.
~Kenny Omega
That should be the measure of success for everyone. It’s not money, it’s not fame, it’s not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.
~Lupe Fiasco
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Money’s a necessary evil, there to give you moments. It gives me things I couldn’t have ‒ nice things ‒ but happiness? That’s a not a question of money and fame. Quite the opposite.
~Dani Alves (futbol)
I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.
~Mary MacLane
Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.
~Mary MacLane
A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.
~Clive James
We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
~H Jackson Brown, Jr
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§ The Exercise:
There is…
a famous grey mouse
Mickey
a blended scotch whisky
The Famous Grouse
nothing more frisky
than a soon-to-be spouse
more risky than a rogue
White House
more teasingly risqué than
a low-cut blouse
no better reason
to stay and browse
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foxy lady
to live with a vixen
daily visitations of beauty
with sharp teeth
a bushy tail
famed sly wit
and me
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deft & daffy definitions
sides: reason to be wary
strength: burdens to carry
yetis: lumbering and hairy
shy: always and very
fame: chiseled and airy
Tinker Bell: Peter’s Neverland fairy
Wisconsin: stately dairy
X-mas: time to be merry
lust: desires may vary
love: a reason to marry
eyes: wide and starry
words: inspiring and scary
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questionable
midwife to begin life
escort maven
death angel to end life
bleak-black harvest driven
confessed confused
unproven haven waitin’
which door to use
to fight or end strife
your move
quoth the raven
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chance encounter
trap door in the floor
of sane identity
independent of foundation
call it fame
call it off
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5s ‘n 7s
rage at large, honor profaned
law bending structures, pro-fame
do-over strictures, renamed
past reframed, repositioned
sins renamed, reconditioned
alibis turned lullabies
watching hist’ry rearranged
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gold statue for magnet fame
tall-tales telling former flame
tag-along friends use your name
fans then stalkers stake their claim
such hot fun to play this game
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value in veneer
betimes marketed as fame
money in the bank
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grab for attention
fame needs no introduction
do it anyway
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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes
It’s not the money. It’s not the fame. It’s the influence.
~Clay Aiken
Fame is easy to acquire; impact is much more difficult.
~Hans Rosling
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I’ve always been profoundly ambivalent about fame. I think it just eats the reality out of you and it can be intoxicating because I like some of it.
~Jane Pauley
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
~Goethe
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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
~Edmund Burke
Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
~P N Elrod
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In college, I was an education major and qualified for several jobs. But the fame that came with the Olympic medals was too threatening to many people.
~Wilma Rudolph (beat polio to win Olympic gold)
There were only 170 neurologists in Britain then and, whether spoken or unspoken, there was this insidious feeling. How can Bannister, a mere athlete, probably spoilt by all the publicity and fame, dare aspire to neurology? But I’d done a lot of research, and my academic record was very good.
~Roger Bannister (first 4 minute mile)
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Fame and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
~Roman Proverb
Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
~Doris Lessing
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It’s success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I’m addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them.
~Robbie Williams
Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.
~Marc Anthony
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Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!
~Davy Crockett
Fame is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.
~Thomas Carlyle
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Fame attracts lunatics.
~Elton John
Fame made me develop a panic disorder.
~Sia
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Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
~Arthur Schopenhauer
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
~Francis Bacon
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I made enough money to buy a house. That’s crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.
~Moon Unit Zappa
Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
~Lady Gaga
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I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I’m always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don’t understand the attraction.
~Cate Blanchett
Money is a good thing and it’s obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.
~Annie Lennox
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If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it’s not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you’re truly blessed.
~Edie Brickell (Good Times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc)
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
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Even for the wise, the desire for glory is the last of all passions to be laid aside.
~Roman Proverb
Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
~Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
~Blaise Pascal
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
~Emil Cioran
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