Fame Quotes - Page 38

• I never pursued being 'famous.'

  Francesca Annis

  Being Famous, Pursued

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• I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.

  Johnny Mathis

  Thinking, Everyday Things, People

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• There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.

  Kim Kardashian

  Being Yourself, Character, Pressure

  "Kim Kardashian told she has no talent during Barbara Walters interview". www.mirror.co.uk. December 16, 2011.

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• The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.

  Louis C. K.

  People, Problem

  "That's Not Funny, That's C.K." by Joel Lovell, www.gq.com. August 2, 2011.

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• My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

  Martha Plimpton

  Mom, Premium, Wealthy

  "Q & A: Raising Hope’s Martha Plimpton on being a child actress, guest stars and Twitter". Interview with Lance Carter, www.dailyactor.com. September 27, 2011.

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• I will either be famous or infamous.

  Otto Dix

  Infamous

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• Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Funeral, Immortality

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.428, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Sex, Passion, Knowledge

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1825). “The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers”, p.375

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• Fame has a special burden, which I might as well state here and now. I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden

  Marilyn Monroe

  Real, Mind, Special

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• It's strange because I'm a sex symbol to 14-year-old girls which I guess is not the most helpful situation to be in. But yeah, I've never really thought of it. It's just so funny. I mean, just last year I couldn't even get a date and then this year, the world turns and it's so bizarre that everybody just changes their mind at the same time.

  Robert Pattinson

  Girl, Sex, Mean

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• The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it.

  Geert Groote

  Humility, Men, Perfection

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• You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.

  Linda Evans

  Success, Congratulations, Redneck

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• Moved by their selfish desires, people seek after fame and glory. But when they have acquired it, they are already stricken in years. If you hanker after worldly fame and practise not the Way, your labors are wrongfully applied and your energy is wasted. It is like unto burning an incense stick. However much its pleasing odor be admired, the fire that consumes is steadily burning up the stick.

  Gautama Buddha

  Selfish, Fire, Years

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• Builders insist that success may never come without a compelling personal commitment to something you care about and would be willing to do with or without counting on wealth, fame, power, or public acceptance as an outcome.

  Jerry I. Porras

  Success, Commitment, Acceptance

  Jerry I. Porras, Stewart Emery, Mark Thompson (2006). “Success Built to Last: Creating a Life That Matters”, p.21, Pearson Education

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• There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.

  Sophocles

  Life, Men, Judging

  "Women of Trachis". Play by Sophocles. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• The real trap of fame is its irresistibility.

  Ingrid Bengis

  Real, Traps

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• Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

  Publius Attius Varus

  Men, He Man, Misers

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• Everything in the media is fleeting. Don't get the wrong idea. Fame is when you're still the hot topic next week or even the week after.

  Miki Aihara

  Media, Next Week, Ideas

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• My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

  Plato

  Philosophical, Good Friend, Caring

  Plato (1949). “Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito, and the Death Scene from Phaedo”

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• Fame hurt. People thought I was a sellout chef and stopped coming to my restaurant.

  Chris Cosentino

  Hurt, People, Chef

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• I actually work at my craft, and I actually want to be the best in my category, and I want to be a true actress. And a lot of people just want fame, and there's a huge difference.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Differences, People, Actresses

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

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• Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.

  Herodotus

  Thinking, Reflecting Upon, Inspire

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• I don't enjoy being a celebrity, I don't want any part of that or any part of that fame for fame... i'd actually rather die than be a celebrity slime!!!

  Marc Almond

  Want, Slime, Enjoy

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• If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.

  Moon Unit Zappa

  Being Famous, Ifs

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• 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

  Moving, Kids, People

  "Jordin Sparks Shares Her Secrets!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. June 25, 2010.

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