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• It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Real, Fire, Littles

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)”, p.604, ShandonPress

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• I spent twenty-two seasons playing professional baseball. Naturally, success in that field is measured by batting averages, number of home runs and RBIs, fielding averages, ERAs and other statistics. Fame, notoriety and the bright lights fade quickly. To me, true success in life would be to develop both physically and spiritually to our fullest and to endure to the end!

  Harmon Killebrew

  Life, Success, Baseball

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• After I saw how badly animals were treated to en up in our plates, how bad it was for our health and for the environment, I decided to stop this nonsense and educate others. After all, animals can’t talk and they need people that have notoriety like me to be their voices.

  Georges Laraque

  Animal, Voice, People

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• I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.

  Ralph Lauren

  Thinking, Done, Want

  "Ralph Lauren's Reign". Interview with Mark Seliger, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 12, 2010.

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• Fame, at one time, was associated with accomplishment, but in this day and age fame and notoriety have become confused.

  Don Henley

  Confused, Accomplishment, Age

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• The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse.

  Anthony Burgess

  Suicidal, Essence, Musical

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• I feel like I've been dealing with that building over the years because of the Broadway community, so I'm treating it in the same way - I've always tried to keep my personal life private. I didn't get into this business for notoriety or fame. I don't go to places to be seen and that's not going to change.

  Aaron Tveit

  Years, Community, Broadway

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• You can't count on notoriety lasting very long, and there's no way to predict whether anyone will care about your books or you in three years, let alone ten or twenty.

  Dan Chaon

  Book, Years, Long

  Interview with Tom Barbash, www.believermag.com.

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• Many first-time authors are not concerned about the advance or royalties, they want the notoriety. They get smarter on their second book and look for the money.

  Dan Poynter

  Book, Looks, Want

  Dan Poynter (2003). “The self-publishing manual: how to write, print, and sell your own book”, Para Publishing

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• You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front of them, like some sort of baffler, or Ready Brek force field. Their reach for notoriety predicated on that fulsome mediocrity of talent detailed above has become frozen in their faces.

  Will Self

  Force Fields, Personality, Mediocrity

  "Chris the saviour". www.theguardian.com. March 9, 1997.

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• When a child wants to be accepted, he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that's what you'll do.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Children, Mean, Fighting

  "Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje: 'I didn't want to be black. So I joined the skinheads...'" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2012.

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• Obscurity is where God sends all His favorite sons and daughters. Our society tells us that if and when we get ‘there’—the job or position or degree we’ve always wanted, the notoriety we’ve always dreamed of—that’s when all the important stuff will start happening. Not so. All the good stuff happens in obscurity.

  Jonathan Martin

  Daughter, Jobs, Son

  Jonathan Martin, Steven Furtick (2013). “Prototype: What Happens When You Discover You're More Like Jesus Than You Think?”, p.65, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• My hope is that the generous instincts of unity will not depart from us...[so that we] become the prey of the little folk who exist in every country and who frolic alongside the Juggernaut car of war to see what fun or notoriety they can extract from the proceedings.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Fun, War

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done.

  Ray Bradbury

  Balance, Done, Fats

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• To be known for one's saddest story is not the road to notoriety anyone would willingly choose.

  Michael Dorris

  Stories, Saddest, Known

  Michael Dorris (1994). “Paper trail: essays”, Harpercollins

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• As a human being with notoriety and a big mouth, I've felt most threatened during the first Bush Administration. Whenever there's a Bush in the White House, many people die, and the rest of us are threatened. I just didn't think it would happen quite so quickly. The so-called USA Patriot Act, and the announcement of trying people in military tribunals if Bush or Rumsfeld's or Ashcroft's people think they somehow qualify as terrorists, basically, this is McCarthyism run amok.

  Jello Biafra

  Running, Military, Thinking

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one more clout with publishers and more notoriety among journalists. The effect on one's writing, however, is nil - otherwise, one would be in deep trouble.

  John Banville

  Writing, Careers, Giving

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• When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.

  Bil Keane

  Teacher, School, Drawing

  "Comics: Meet the Artist" online cha, www.washingtonpost.com. July 31, 2002.

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• There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy surface of popular culture. But these days, pop culture seems to have gotten fuzzier and fuzzier; notoriety comes and goes in the snap of a finger.

  Susan Orlean

  Track, Mind, Giants

  "William, Kate, and Justin Bieber" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. April 28, 2011.

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• I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of which is apparently the necessary incident of politics - except doing public work to the best of my ability.

  John Abbott

  Hate, Speech, Caucus

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• I learned that famous writers are people with foibles like anyone else and this helped me realize reaching their level of notoriety wasn't impossible.

  Kirby Wright

  People, Levels, Impossible

  "Hawaii, Mortuaries, And Saving Kurt Vonnegut: An Interview With Kirby Wright". Interview with George Wallace, www.greatweatherformedia.com. September 5, 2013.

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• There's this notion that in order to draw attention and to be considered for roles I want to be considered for, you need a certain amount of notoriety.

  Bryan Cranston

  Order, Needs, Roles

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• America puts killers on the cover of Time magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our favorite movie stars.

  Marilyn Manson

  Stars, America, Giving

  "Columbine: Whose Fault Is It?" by Marilyn Manson, www.rollingstone.com. June 24, 1999.

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• I believe that the purpose of influence is to speak up for those who have no influence. And fame is not for our own benefit, or notoriety is not for our own benefit, it's for leverage to do good.

  Rick Warren

  Believe, Purpose, Benefits

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• Tom Ford just started at Gucci and was getting great notoriety - like Madonna wearing that head-to-toe velvet suit at the MTV awards. I remember it like it was yesterday.

  Roopal Patel

  Yesterday, Awards, Mtv

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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