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I had the crowd in the palm of my hand, till I Almost all fell asleep, professional fame came overnight, life beats its relentless delete.
Author:
Slim Shady - Eminem
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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna has both.
Author:
Phyllis Diller
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Success is not defined by the fame you gain, but by the lives you touch on the way up.
Author:
Jessica Kim
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True success is not measured by the height of fame, but by the depth of impact.
Author:
Jessica Johnson
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Waves of fame may ebb and flow, but true success lies in the depths of character.
Author:
Rachel Johnson
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I don't need the fame right now; I'm not running from the law.
Author:
Tina Yothers
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I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.
Author:
Zakk Wylde
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Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Author:
Bernie Worrell
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If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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The sooner I get into the Hall of Fame the better.
Author:
Dave Winfield
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The 50 greatest players don't matter when you're in the Hall of Fame. We all know that I was not one of the 50 greatest, I was one of the 25 greatest - in my mind.
Author:
Dominique Wilkins
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My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions.
Author:
Emma Watson
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In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame.
Author:
Donatella Versace
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The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
Author:
Gloria Vanderbilt
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Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.
Author:
Marlo Thomas
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At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing.
Author:
Sharon Stone
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I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be.
Author:
George Steinbrenner
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It's been a tremendous ride. My 15 years, my 15 minutes of fame, is up.
Author:
Emmitt Smith
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Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy.
Author:
Erika Slezak
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I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.
Author:
Nancy Sinatra
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Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.
Author:
Gabriela Sabatini
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I'll take anyway to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy, I'll go in as a batboy.
Author:
Phil Rizzuto
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Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
Author:
Antoine Rivarol
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I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame.
Author:
Noel Redding
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I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't something that I find comfortable.
Author:
Aidan Quinn
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Fame is a bitch, man.
Author:
Brad Pitt
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Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner.
Author:
Alessandro Piero
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I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.
Author:
Rafael Palmeiro
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I think Ray Guy and John Madden for sure should be in the Hall of Fame and Cliff Branch should be as well.
Author:
Jim Otto
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So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.
Author:
Richard O'Brien
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We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.
Author:
Ed O'Brien
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Fame is morally neutral.
Author:
Edward Murrow
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I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.
Author:
Mandy Moore
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.
Author:
Nellie Melba
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Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.
Author:
Roger McGuinn
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Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times.
Author:
Nick Mancuso
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I've done all this stuff because it's fun. It's never been about fame.
Author:
Elle Macpherson
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I've been through this fame thing before, when the band was big in '80, '81.
Author:
John Lurie
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
Author:
Jack London
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
Author:
Fran Lebowitz
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Regis and I were inducted into the original Bronx Walk of Fame.
Author:
Robert Klein
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I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.
Author:
Calvin Klein
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I don't think about my fame very much.
Author:
Calvin Klein
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Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row.
Author:
Ralph Kiner
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
Author:
Waylon Jennings
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Fame makes me feel wanted and loved, anybody wants that.
Author:
Michael Hutchence
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Who has the fame to be an early riser may sleep till noon.
Author:
James Howell
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Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
Author:
Oliver Holmes
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My only claim to fame, if I have one, is that I'm an editor.
Author:
Woody Herman
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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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Maybe it's my 15 minutes of fame, maybe it's longer.
Author:
Jane Harman
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Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?
Author:
William Hamilton
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A lot of celebrities, especially when you're talking about the really big ones, live in what I call the fame bubble. Nobody ever says no to them or challenges them or even teases them.
Author:
Kathy Griffin
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It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill.
Author:
Kelsey Grammer
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What is fame? an empty bubble; Gold? a transient, shining trouble.
Author:
James Grainger
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If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
Author:
Johann Goethe
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Rosie is a Hall of Fame player, and I wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame if it weren't for him.
Author:
Frank Gifford
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It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.
Author:
Lesley Garrett
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As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.
Author:
John Fahey
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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
Author:
Desiderius Erasmus
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Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.
Author:
Eminem
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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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I've experienced as much fame as I ever want to.
Author:
Trevor Dunn
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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.
Author:
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.
Author:
William Davenant
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You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.
Author:
Nikki Cox
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You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way.
Author:
Billy Corgan
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Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
Author:
Charles Colton
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
Author:
Gilbert Chesterton
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Getting buried alive will always be my claim to fame.
Author:
Crystal Chappell
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Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy.
Author:
Bennett Cerf
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Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
Author:
Truman Capote
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Fame is the thirst of youth.
Author:
Lord Byron
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Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
Author:
Lord Byron
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Author:
Robert Burns
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Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
Author:
Julie Burchill
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I guess it comes back to the old motto, you have you're fifteen minutes a fame.
Author:
Steve Brown
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If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
Author:
Bodhidharma
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My drum sticks are in the "Hall of Fame." I know that.
Author:
Jimmy Black
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It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.
Author:
Jane Badler
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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
Author:
Francis Bacon
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Author:
Francis Bacon
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Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names.
Author:
Mary Austin
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
Author:
W. Auden
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I feel like fame is wasted on me.
Author:
Ben Affleck
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Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
Author:
Lucius Accius