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| Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion. Marcus Aurelius Quotes |
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| In the march up the heights of fame there comes a spot close to the summit in which man reads nothing but detective stories. Heywood Hale Broun Quotes |
| Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town. Truman Capote Quotes |
| It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture. Johnny Cash Quotes |
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| Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others. Sir Winston Churchill Quotes |
| "Let me tell you a story. The day after Columbine, I was interviewed for the Tom Brokaw news program. The reporter had been assigned a theory and was seeking sound bites to support it. "Wouldn't you say," she asked, "that killings like this are influenced by violent movies?" No, I said, I wouldn't say that. "But what about 'Basketball Diaries'?" She asked. "Doesn't that have a scene of a boy walking into a school with a machine gun?" The obscure 1995 Leonardo Di Caprio movie did indeed have a brief fantasy scene of that nature, I said, but the movie failed at the box office, and it's unlikely the Columbine killers saw it. The reporter looked disappointed, so I offered her my theory. "Events like this," I said, "if they are influenced by anything, are influenced by news programs like your own. When an unbalanced kid walks into a school and starts shooting, it becomes a major media event. Cable news drops ordinary programming and goes around the clock with it. The story is assigned a logo and a theme song; These two kids were packaged as the Trench Coat Mafia. The message is clear to other disturbed kids around the country: If I shoot up my school, I can be famous. The TV will talk about nothing else but me. Experts will try to figure out what I was thinking. The kids and teachers at school will see they shouldn't have messed with me. I'll go out in a blaze of glory." Roger Ebert Quotes |
| In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness. Umberto Eco Quotes |
| A place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. Marilyn Monroe Quotes |
| Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word “sophisticate” means, very simply, “obscene.” A sophisticated story is a dirty story. Some of that meaning was wafted eastward and got itself mixed up into the present definition. So that a “sophisticate” means: one who dwells in a tower made of a DuPont substitute for ivory and holds a glass of flat champagne in one hand and an album of dirty post cards in the other. Dorothy Parker Quotes |
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| Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt... Jean Rostand Quotes |
| I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes |
| Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men. Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza Quotes |
| My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand. Barbra Streisand Quotes |
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| Don’t call me an icon, honey. An icon is something you hang in a Russian church. Call me Dame Elizabeth or call me an aging movie star. Elizabeth Taylor Quotes |
| I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. Andy Warhol Quotes |
Vain ambition of kings
Who seek by trophies and dead things
To leave a living name behind,
And weave but nets to catch the wind. John Webster Quotes |
| I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph. Shirley Temple Quotes |
| You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. Thomas Wolfe Quotes |
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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. Marlo Thomas Quotes |
| Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable. Matthew Henry Quotes |
| I am not a myth. Marlene Dietrich Quotes |
| To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours. Mark Twain Quotes |
| We are the leaves of one branch, the drops of one sea, the flowers of one garden. Jean Baptiste Henry Lacordaire Quotes |
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| Fame is morally neutral. Edward R. Murrow Quotes |
| Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. Blaise Pascal Quotes |
| Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence. Benjamin Haydon Quotes |
| He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar. Chuang-tzu Quotes |
| The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes |
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| Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
| If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time. J. K. Rowling Quotes |
| Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be. Jessica Alba Quotes |
| If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal? Author Unknown Quotes |
| Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
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| I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed. Author Unknown Quotes |
| It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think. Author Unknown Quotes |
| I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that. Salma Hayek Quotes |
| Popularity? It is glory's small change. Victor Hugo Quotes |
Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught. William Shakespeare Quotes |
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| Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from. Tacitus Quotes |
| Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. Emily Dickinson Quotes |
| In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes. Andy Warhol Quotes |
