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  • The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.

    Knowing   Culture   Fame  
  • The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

    George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.84, 谷月社
  • Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.

    Artist   Thinking   Idols  
  • Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.

    Art   Media   Limos  
    Song: Fame D Bowie J Lennon C Alomar
  • Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.

    'A Wish' (1867)
  • The fact of the matter is fame predates even the age of cinema.

    Age   Cinema   Matter  
    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.

  • I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

    Thinking   Ideas   Fame  
    Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 12, 2003.
  • It is better to be faithful than famous.

    Loyalty   Army   Faithful  
    Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.75, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • Fame is nothing but an empty name.

    Names   Paganism   Fame  
    Charles Churchill, William Tooke (1804). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill”, p.24
  • Fame is an interesting phenomenon.

    "Fame According To Me" by Paulina Porizkova, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2010.
  • 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.

    Selfish   Fire   Years  
  • If fame came near to you to get you, you must run away from it very fast! Because this is a matter of freedom and captivity!

  • Fame is like getting across the street. It's like, if there's nothing to be across the street for, it's a pointless destination.

    "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council (2003 Cover Story)". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. January 11, 2016.
  • Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?

    Men   Fame  
    Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.157
  • An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example, in the memory of the words and deeds in which it was manifested; and as every age adds to the illustrations of its efficacy, it may chance to be the best understood by a remote posterity.

    Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and speeches on various occasions”, p.576
  • A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.

    Guy   Lips   Fame  
  • I do not like being famous. I like being normal.

  • SOME YEARS, like some poets,and politicians and some lovely women, are singled out for fame far beyond the common lot, and 1929 was clearly such a year.

    Years   Lovely   Common  
    JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH (1962). “THE GREAT CRASH 1929”
  • The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.

    A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.6, Delphi Classics
  • The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame.

    Fame   Vulgar  
    Homer (1791). “The Iliad: Of Homer. Translated by Mr. Pope. ...”, p.335
  • Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed.

    Needs   Impossible   Fame  
    John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.256
  • I enjoy my life. The fame part of it freaked me out for a little while, and there are definitely times when it's not so great to be special and known by everybody - you know, when you're wearing the wrong thing, or just in a vulnerable place. But I'm good with my life now.

    Interview with Stella Papamichael, www.bbc.co.uk. June 16, 2003.
  • If to die honorably is the greatest Part of virtue, for us fate's done her best. Because we fought to crown Greece with freedom We lie here enjoying timeless fame.

    Lying   Fate   Crowns  
  • 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.

    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
  • I grew up being the girl who would always tune in to watch famous people talk about their careers, how they handled scandals and mega fame. I'm trying to pick up tips.

    Girl   Careers   People  
    "Rebecca Black Was Profiled By New York Magazine. Yes, I’m Serious" by Brett Michael Dykes, uproxx.com. September 26, 2011.
  • I’ve often said that I wish people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame, so that they could see that it’s not where they’re gonna find their sense of completion. Like many of you, I was concerned about going out into the world and doing something bigger than myself, until someone smarter than myself made me realize that there is nothing bigger than myself. My soul is not contained within the limits of my body, my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.

    Dream   People   Soul  
    "Jim Carrey Receives Honorary Diploma from Maharishi University of Management". Jim Carrey's commencement speech at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, www.iowasource.com. May 24, 2014.
  • I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.

    Q magazine Interview, April 1990.
  • A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.

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