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• If opinion hath lighted the lamp of thy name, endeavor to encourage it with thy own oil, lest it go out and stink; the chronical disease of Popularity is shame; if thou be once up, beware; from fame to infamy is a beaten road.

  Francis Quarles

  Names, Oil, Lamps

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• Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

  Jean-Michel Basquiat

  Romantic, Stars, Hero

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• Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Miserable

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.95, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

  Bono

  People, Different, Littles

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• A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Names, Dignity

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• As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy... there's something about winning a Super Bowl.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Motivational, Winning, Boys

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• We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Success, Congratulations, Appreciate

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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.

  Julie Burchill

  Suicide, Hollywood, Growing

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• I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Fake People, Over You

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• All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Looks, Quiet, Life Is

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• Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Vapor, Reputation

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.116, Courier Corporation

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• Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.

  Truman Capote

  Cash, Towns, Small Town

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• Fame makes you feel permanently like a girl walking past construction workers.

  Brad Pitt

  Girl, Past, Construction Workers

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• The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

  George Santayana

  Vanity, Reputation, Form

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.84, 谷月社

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• Those who despise fame seldom deserve it. We are apt to undervalue the purchase we cannot reach, to conceal our poverty the better. It is a spark which kindles upon the best fuel, and burns brightest in the bravest breast.

  Jeremy Collier

  Fuel, Sparks, Poverty

  Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.40

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• Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

  John Milton

  Spurs, Spirit, Shears

  "Lycidas" l. 70 (1638). A 1619 play thought to be written by John Fletcher, Sir John van Olden Barnavelt act 1, sc. 1, refers to "the desire of glory (That last infirmity of noble minds)." That play was lost and not rediscovered until 1883, so Milton's parallel words were coincidental.

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• Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Tombstone, Few Words, Dignity

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• What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

  Voltaire

  Idols, Names, Burden

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• Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

  Lord Byron

  Reputation, Folly, Martyrdom

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.513, Delphi Classics

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• Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

  Edmund Burke

  Passion, Soul, Intuition

  Edmund Burke, John Shebbeare (1776). “An Answer to the Printed Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq; spoken in the House of Commons, April 19, 1774, etc. By John Shebbeare”, p.191

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• Acquaintance lessens fame.

  Claudius

  Acquaintance

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• Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul.

  Charlton Heston

  Soul, Conditions

  "Charlton Heston: Great sport with a line in heroic role models". "The Sunday Times" Newspaper, June 17, 1990.

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• Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Quiet, Tranquility, Bedfellows

  'Essais' (1580) bk. 1, ch. 39

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• I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.

  Jean-Michel Basquiat

  Stars, Gallery, Mascots

  Jean-Michel Basquiat, Civico museo Revoltella (1999). “Basquiat”, Walker Art Center

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• He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

  Edmund Burke

  Passion, Soul, Causes

  William Pitt (Earl of Chatham), Edmund Burke, Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine, Jean Gabriel Peltier (1834). “Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added the Arguement of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of Peltier”, p.87

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