Fame Quotes - Page 25

• I'll never, ever think of myself as famous, even if I ever get to the point of George Clooney... because I Think you might go crazy if you start reffering to yourself in those terms.

  Shailene Woodley

  Crazy, Thinking, Might

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• If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Humility, Simplicity, Profit

  Thomas a Kempis, James Jones (1842). “The Following of Christ...”, p.15

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• What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.

  Charles Darwin

  Humility, Men, Doings

  Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt, Sydney Smith (1985). “The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: 1847-1850”, p.140, Cambridge University Press

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• What of fame? Everybody knows your name: never again are you alone.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, Names, Knows

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• Dream big and surround yourself with brilliance, even if you end up dressed up like a flower or a sexually transmitted disease.

  Peter Gabriel

  Dream, Flower, Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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• I like it when I'm on the stage, but honestly, I would be very happy if I could cut it off, just enjoy my life when I wasn't performing.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Cutting, Would Be, Stage

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• Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame.

  Matthew Heywood

  Love, Adventure, Power

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• I'm not the best of you, but I'm not the worst either.

  Cat Stevens

  Worst

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• Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness. . . . For you see, greatness is a measure of one's spirit, not a result of one's rank in human affairs.

  Sherman Glenn Finesilver

  Greatness, Confusion, Confusing

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• I want to live in a world where people become famous because of their work for peace and justice and care. I want the famous to be inspiring; their lives an example of what every human being has it in them to do - act from love!

  Patch Adams

  People, Justice, Example

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• The quick lesson that I learned is that none of the fame part is really real.

  Carly Rae Jepsen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• The General who in advancing does not seek personal fame, and in withdrawing is not concerned with avoiding punishment, but whose only purpose is to protect the people and promote the best interests of his sovereign, is the precious jewel of the state.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Punishment

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• The Golf Hall of Fame is full of players with unusual looking swings. Some of the prettiest swings you've ever seen in your life are made on the far end of the public driving range by guys who couldn't break an egg with a baseball bat.

  Peter Jacobsen

  Baseball, Golf, Player

  Peter Jacobsen (1994). “Buried Lies: True Tales and Tall Stories from the PGA Tour”, Penguin Mass Market

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• We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do not write about ordinary people.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Educational, Writing, Winning

  Jonathan Kozol (1993). “On Being a Teacher”, Oneworld Publications Limited

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• Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

  William Blake

  Despair, Talent, Shame

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.491, Pearson Education

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  We don't apologize for a joke. We are comics. We are here to make you laugh. If you don't get it, then don't watch us.

  Joan Rivers

  Humor, Apology, Laughing

  Piers Morgan @piersmorgan, twitter.com. September 04, 2014.

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• Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.

  Diane Black

  Humorous, Humility, Space

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• All my first dates are interrupted by my fame because every picture taken is a fan that you can gain.

  Drake

  Taken, Humble, Fans

  Song: The Calm, Album: So Far Gone, 2009

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• See I'm humble but I live fame, for more deals on the table than a Bridge game.

  Drake

  Humble, Games, Bridges

  Song: All This Love

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• It's hard to think of them polite flows when Stephano Polato suits are your night clothes, and Jordan sweat suits are your flight clothes, and you still make it even when they say your flight closed.

  Drake

  Humble, Night, Thinking

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• In this game you only lose when you fight back

  Drake

  Humble, Fighting, Games

  Song: Say What's Real, Album: So Far Gone, 2009

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• So what I tend to do is to think of today as the past. It's funny when you comin in first but you hope that you last.. You just hope that it lasts.

  Drake

  Humble, Past, Thinking

  Song: Lust For Life

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• Much of the fire with him [Ben Hogan] was lit by Byron Nelson, who came from the same town - the same caddie yard - and achieved fame and fortune several years ahead of Ben and who, as a kid, had always been popular and better liked than Ben. No puzzle at all.

  Dan Jenkins

  Kids, Golf, Fire

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• Golf took young kids like Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan and myself out of the caddie ranks and gave us money and a little bit of fame and let us live in the tall cotton.

  Jimmy Demaret

  Kids, Golf, Caddies

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• It was a great honour to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. I didn't know they had a caddie division.

  Bob Hope

  Golf, Caddies, Division

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