Fame Quotes - Page 21

• Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.

  H. G. Wells

  Clever, Mistake, Men

  H.G. Wells (2011). “The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds”, p.12, Everyman's Library

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• In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted, for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things -- some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labor -- who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.

  Barack Obama

  Greatness, Men, Journey

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• Tut, tut — fame clearly isn't everything.

  J. K. Rowling

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• Fame Imperishable and glory that will never die -- that is what we march for!

  Steven Pressfield

  March, Glory, Dies

  Steven Pressfield (2004). “The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great”, Broadway Books

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• The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else's fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves.

  Libba Bray

  Order, People, Support

  Libba Bray (2009). “Rebel Angels”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't.

  Dr. Seuss

  Winning, Tvs, Sometimes

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• Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician – the last egalitarian and open associations. No matter what happens in terms of fame and fortune, dedication to writing is a marching-step forward from where you were before, when you didn’t care about reaching out to the world, when you weren’t hoping to contribute, when you were just standing there doing some job into which you had fallen.

  Anne Lamott

  Jobs, Writing, Dedication

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• Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be remarked for their vices and follies than not be noticed at all!

  Harry S. Truman

  Mistake, Men, Vices

  "Harry S. Truman in his own words".

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• I am Thy servant to do Thy will, and that will is sweeter to me than position or riches or fame, and I choose it above all things on Earth or in Heaven.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heaven, Earth, Riches

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• Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?’ ‘Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we are profoundly unhappy ourselves, the slaves of fame?

  Paulo Coelho

  Unhappy, Magazines, Slave

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• That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, of careers and politics and money and fame, that was the fake world, where nothing lasted, and things were real only to the extent they harmed or helped people inside their homes.

  Orson Scott Card

  Wall, Real, Home

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Hidden Empire”, p.38, Macmillan

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• Fame is a form, perhaps the worst form, of incomprehension.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Form, Worst, Incomprehension

  Jorge Luis Borges (2011). “The Widow Ching--Pirate”, p.57, Penguin UK

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• Poet's food is love and fame.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Poet

  'Good Night'

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• But even with my minimal amount of fame, there are certain perks. Recently, I was at a movie premier, and at the party after the movie, Meryl Streep was loose, walking around the room like a normal person. Absolutely nothing was preventing me from lunging toward her and shrieking "Dingoes ate my baby! Dingoes ate my baby!

  Augusten Burroughs

  Baby, Party, Rooms

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• Extraordinary beauty can be a curse to the one who possesses it. one pays a dear price for fame and fortune

  Sandra Brown

  Extraordinary Beauty, Pay, Fortune

  Sandra Brown (2013). “French Silk”, p.233, Hachette UK

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• I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that's my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything.

  Lady Gaga

  Music, Crazy, Passion

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• I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There's no stopping. I didn't create the fame, the fame created me.

  Lady Gaga

  Music, Girl, Work

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• One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide and made my pains his prey. Vain man (said she) that dost in vain assay A mortal thing so to immortalise; For I myself shall like to this decay, And eke my name be wipèd out likewise. Not so (quod I); let baser things devise To die in dust, but you shall live by fame; My verse your virtues rare shall eternise, And in the heavens write your glorious name: Where, when as Death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew.

  Edmund Spenser

  Pain, Writing, Men

  'Amoretti' (1595) sonnet 75

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• I'm just a girl, With a dream that got the best of me, In a world that believes fame is everything.

  Miley Cyrus

  Girl, Dream, Believe

  Song: Just a Girl

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• It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it's totally obvious to everyone that I did it.

  Mindy Kaling

  Jail Time, Murder, Obvious

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.62, Crown/Archetype

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• Once I'm on my feet i realize escape might not be so simple, panic begins to set in. i can't stay here. flight is essential but i can't let my fear show. Winning means fame and fortune, losing mean certain death, The Hunger Games have begun . . .

  Suzanne Collins

  Mean, Winning, Simple

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• Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another." He spread his broad hands. "We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory. Who knows?" He smiles. "Perhaps one day even I will be famous. Perhaps more famous than you.

  Madeline Miller

  Memories, Men, Hands

  Madeline Miller (2012). “The Song of Achilles”, p.347, A&C Black

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• You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Ideas, Gnats

  Victor Hugo (2009). “Things Seen (Choses Vues)”, p.78, Wildside Press LLC

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• Love, when it came and knocked on my door, was going to be enough. And that unknown author who'd written that if you had fame, it was not enough, and if you had wealth as well, it was still not enough, and if you had fame, wealth, and also love ... still it was not enough - boy, did I feel sorry for him.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Sorry, Boys, Doors

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• When you write, you want fame, fortune and personal satisfaction. You want to write what you want to write and feel it's good, and you want this to go on for hundreds of years. You're not likely ever to get all these things, and you're not likely to give up writing and commit suicide if you don't, but that is -- and should be -- your goal. Anything else is kind of piddling.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Suicide, Giving Up, Writing

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