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• Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing had it not been for the sex videos that lofted them into reality-TV notoriety. Once notoriety has warmed into familiarity, celebrity itself becomes one big 'Brady Bunch' reunion, or a therapy session with Dr. Drew.

  James Wolcott

  Sex, Reality, Paris

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• I think Paris Hilton is really our generation's Marilyn Monroe. She's the image of the youth today. There's a real fascination with Paris, ranging on the obsessive. I'm repulsed by her, but because of her notoriety, she has access to an audience.

  Matt Tong

  Real, Thinking, Our Generation

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm not a plumber who accidentally blew up or a math professor who accidentally backed into notoriety. I have a master's from Yale drama, and I auditioned for this. So obviously I want to be in the limelight in some capacity, or I want to be in entertainment in some capacity.

  Adam Richman

  Drama, Math, Yale

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I can’t think of any negative [aspects of working in the wrestling industry]. The positive are the money, the comradery, the prestige, the notoriety. A lot of pluses.

  Ric Flair

  Wrestling, Thinking, Negative

  Source: smackdown5.moonfruit.com

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• I think somewhere in the '90s, it started to shift, and you started to see a lot of film and television actors doing theater, and producers using the notoriety of the film and television actors to sell tickets.

  Zachary Quinto

  Thinking, Tickets, Film And Television

  Interview with Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

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• Climbing is one of the few sports in which the arena (the cliffs, the mountains and their specific routes) acquire a notoriety that outpopulates, outshines and outlives the actual athletes.

  Jonathan Waterman

  Sports, Athlete, Climbing

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• Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.

  Franz Grillparzer

  History, Historical, Attention

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• The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.

  Bill Nighy

  Degrees, Easy, Hysterical

  "Bill Nighy: 'I am not suddenly the greatest actor in the world'" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2009.

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• When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial.

  David Duchovny

  Cheesy

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• It's a culture shock to go from obscurity to notoriety in a flash. Its more to it than talent and money; its pressure, stress, enemies, critics; you have to develop relationships and a team. There are all of these things that go along with taking a leap and following your dreams.

  T. D. Jakes

  Dream, Stress, Team

  "T.D. Jakes Talks: Second Chances, Humble Beginnings & Knowing Your Worth". Interview with Zon D’Amour, lasentinel.net. September 21, 2016.

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• It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin.

  Confucius

  Mean, Men, Way

  Confucius (2009). “The Confucian Analects, the Great Learning & the Doctrine of the Mean”, p.431, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Most restaurants fail. The sad ones are stillborn. The mad ones flourish within the bustle and excitement of fame, notoriety, the thrill of the new. But they rarely sustain the glow. They are balloons kept aloft by a restless crowd. Only the strange, the freaks of restaurant perfection, can sustain life beyond a few years.

  Sam Sifton

  Years, Mad, Perfection

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• I think that whenever a Jew has any kind of notoriety, good or bad, the Jews find it to be good.

  Sarah Silverman

  Thinking, Kind, Be Good

  "Sarah Silverman: Turning Ignorance Into Comedy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 22, 2010.

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• Who is this Monet whose name sounds just like mine and who is taking advantage of my notoriety?

  Edouard Manet

  Names, Sound, Advantage

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• It changed my life in an extreme way. I dont know if you could calculate just how much it does [change your life]. There was so much notoriety for me in my first season, and to finish by winning the Super Bowl and get the MVP set my place in history. It cements it and its very special. There is something that comes with it, something everyone recognizes and knows. No one can ever take it away from you.

  Kurt Warner

  Winning, Mvp, Special

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• I think that at a certain stage those early ambitions burn away, partly because you achieve something, you get something done, you get some notoriety. And then the particularities of who you are and what your deepest commitments are begin expressing themselves. You're not just chasing the idea of "me" being important, but you, rather, are chasing a particular passion.

  Barack Obama

  Passion, Ambition, Commitment

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I didn't want to become this stiffened - and that was just a personal choice, at that time. And, the idea was also to go to film first, get enough notoriety in film that I could interpret some of the opera stuff the way I would want to interpret it.

  Robert Davi

  Ideas, Choices, Firsts

  "INTERVIEW: Actor Robert Davi On His Frank Sinatra Tribute, His Hamptons Roots, "Davi’s Way" And More". Interview with Nicole Barylski, www.hamptons.com.

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• This year, notoriety got confused with fame, and the devil is down hearted because there is nothing left for him to claim.

  Don Henley

  Art, Confused, Media

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• Jock Semple and I began appearing at speeches together and he came up to me on the start line in 1973 and planted a big kiss on my cheek. He said in his Scottish brogue: "Come on lass, let's get a wee bit of notoriety." He never said he was sorry but that was his way of saying it, I'm sure.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Sorry, Kissing, Together

  Source: runningmagazine.ca

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• Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart.

  James Branch Cabell

  Heart, People, May

  James Branch Cabell (2001). “The Cream of the Jest”, p.78, Wildside Press LLC

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• Fifteen Minutes of Notoriety Beats the Best Advertising Money Can Buy

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Business, Fifteen, Advertising

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• Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

  Neil Gaiman

  Obscurity, Fame

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• Fame is one thing, notoriety is another.

  Lana Turner

  Fame, One Thing

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• The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you. I wondered if this was why we tried so hard to make our mark in America. To be known. Think of how important celebrity has become. We sing to get famous; expose our worst secrets to get famous; lose weight, eat bugs, even commit murder to get famous. Our young people post their deepest thoughts on public web sites. They run cameras from their bedrooms. It’s as if we are screaming Notice Me! Remember Me! Yet the notoriety barely lasts. Names quickly blur and in time are forgotten.

  Mitch Albom

  Faith, Running, Thinking

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• If you get a certain amount of notoriety for doing something, and you can stick to that type of project for the rest of your life and make a decent living, I think you still have a responsibility to stretch. Flexibility is what keeps you alive.

  Clint Eastwood

  Teamwork, Responsibility, Thinking

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