Fame Quotes - Page 15

• It is my belief one should not belittle the artist; while, however glorious his fame may seem, his time on Mount Olympus as an honourable guest of Zeus is short. It's a pity, but all too eager will the common folk drag him from this etherial heights to the low and trodden earth.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Artist, Common Folk, Olympus

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• If my sense of security lies in my reputation or in the things I have, my life will be in a constant state of threat and jeopardy-a fear that these possessions may be lost, stolen, or devalued. If I'm in the presence of someone of greater net worth, fame, or status, I feel inferior. If I'm in the presence of someone of lesser net worth, fame or status, I feel superior. My sense of self-worth constantly fluctu-ates. I don't have any sense of constancy, anchorage, or persistent selfhood. I am constantly trying to protect and insure my assets, properties, securities, position, or reputation.

  Stephen Covey

  Lying, Self Worth, Trying

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• The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect.

  William J. Clinton

  Years, Greed, Age

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• I didn't need more fame or money. I needed more heart.

  Kenny Chesney

  Heart, Needs, Needed

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• 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

  Media, World, Kind

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• It's a brutal world out there. If you consider the case of superstar Rajesh Khanna, he was a darling of the masses in his hey days, and his fans resurfaced only after he passed away. Such is the life of actors: one gets so addicted to fame and glory, and then it is very difficult to accept a fall. You are forgotten and only remembered when you die!

  Bipasha Basu

  Fall, Fans, Hey

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• There's no comparison between the most precious parts of one's personal life and success and wealth. If you lost someone near and dear to you, you can't relate it to any amount of fame, fortune and luxury. You just have to go on living.

  Robert Plant

  Luxury, Goes On, Wealth

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• I love being on the periphery with a group of people who have the same values that I do. People who don't get off on fame, who just like the process of making movies and thrive.

  Kristen Stewart

  Love Is, People, Groups

  "Kristen Stewart’s Vogue Cover". Interview with Ella Alexander, www.vogue.co.uk. September 4, 2012.

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• For the most part, having more money and more fame make your life harder. It just does. I've seen it happen with people. You know, it's so hard to stay normal. It's so hard to stay happy. It's hard to remember why you were doing what you did in the first place.

  Rashida Jones

  People, Normal, Doe

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• From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.

  W. H. Auden

  Taken, Hands, Plot

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• I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.

  Henry Rollins

  Book, Making Money, Financing

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• There is a level of fame that is really unmanageable. But most of the people who experience that level of fame are compensated in other ways. Private villas and chauffeured boats.

  John C. Reilly

  People, Levels, Way

  "John C. Reilly: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. November 21, 2011.

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• But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins, there were men of dissolute lives and women of spotted fame, wretches given over to all mean and filthy vice, and suspected even of horrid crimes. It was strange to see that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Mean, Men, People

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1982). “Tales and Sketches”, p.285, Library of America

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• Fame is like a big eraser. It's strange, now that I'm famous. In my parents' opinion, all the shitty things - all the wreckage of my past - is erased. Now it's like I was never the kid who got arrested. Now I'm a wonderful son.

  Bobcat Goldthwait

  Kids, Son, Past

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Musketaquid, or Grass-ground River, though probably as old as the Nile or Euphrates, did not begin to have a place in civilized history until the fame of its grassy meadows and fish attracted settlers out of England in 1635, when it received the other but kindred name of CONCORD from the first plantation on its banks, which appears to have commenced in a spirit of peace and harmony. It will be Grass-ground River as long as grass grows and water runs here; it will be Concord River only while men lead peacable lives on its banks.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Men, Names

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.5, Princeton University Press

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• There's no downside to fame and people who whine about it make me sick. It's the greatest thing in the world.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  People, Sick, World

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• I enjoy fame except when I'm with my daughter. Kids stop me all the time and I don't want her to be jealous of the attention. Also, sometimes I just want to be left alone and I refuse to make rubber faces. That's when they start asking, What's the matter, man, don't you like your job? I say, Yeah, I like my job. But I also like having sex, and I'm not going to do that in front of you either.

  Jim Carrey

  Daughter, Jobs, Sex

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• I wanted to resign from the planet, not just music. It stopped being fun with success. Money got in the way. Everybody got greedy, including me. Fear set in. I got miserable when I became a commodity.

  Artie Shaw

  Fun, Way, Miserable

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• I never took the fame too seriously. It was a great period in my life, but it doesn't define me.

  Jonathan Taylor Thomas

  Thinking, Focus, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've figured out that I don't want to spend all of my spare time trying to make money. But, with things like fame or internet presence - things you cannot cash in at the bank - there is still a sense that more is better and that your career should be following a certain trajectory.

  Erika M. Anderson

  Careers, Trying, Cash

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I was worried that I didn't have as many Facebook 'likes' as another musician. You can almost feel like a failure if you aren't building your fame in that way.

  Erika M. Anderson

  Musician, Way, Likes

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Most artists are always fighting for their fame. They have that fear, like the saying goes, "out of sight, out of mind." They need to keep themselves out there. I have never had that fear. If I have any fear, it's not doing enough to reach people.

  Chuck D

  Fighting, Artist, Sight

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• Don't get it twisted. It's not about money, it's not about the fame. It's about I don't have to worry about if my little brother is gonna be able to get a new toy for Christmas. It's those little tiny things that really make up the bigger picture. So, my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

  Nicki Minaj

  Brother, Struggle, Worry

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A series of vibrations. What does it matter, the source of the catalyst?

  Wayne Shorter

  Doe, Matter, Vibrations

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• I don't feel like a big star.

  Sarah Vaughan

  Stars, Bigs, Feels

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