Fame Quotes - Page 15

• People alway ask me what advantages fame has started to bring; there are always plenty of free drinks, but other times people wanna put stuff into your drink to kill you off. Their gonna have to try a lot harder if they want to get me.

  Marilyn Manson

  People, Trying, Want

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• [Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war.

  Edward Gibbon

  War, Delay, Hours

  Edward Gibbon (1871). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.580

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• If somebody told me back in 1980 that I would have a 32-year career, and that I'd be [elected into the Hall of Fame], I'd say no way. For three years, I couldn't even break into the Phillies broadcast booth. I was just hoping to make it, much less be mentioned as a Ford Frick winner. Believe me, when I started out, this award wasn't even close to being on the radar.

  Tim McCarver

  Believe, Years, Careers

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• Writers get exactly the right amount of fame: just enough to get a good table in a restaurant but not enough so that people are constantly interrupting you while you're eating dinner.

  Fran Lebowitz

  People, Tables, Dinner

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• I want to shout out the stars on the walk of fame because they said something about they're not going to put my girl on the Walk of Fame because she's a reality star. It's like, people are so so dated and not modern. There's no way that Kim Kardashian should not have a star on the Walk of Fame. It's ridiculous concepts. I'm just going to give y'all the truth and you're just going to love it.

  Kanye West

  Girl, Stars, Reality

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• I am going to say something I have never said before and this is the truth. I have no reason to lie to you and God knows I am telling the truth. I think all my success and fame and I have wanted it, I have wanted it because I wanted to be loved. That's all. That's the real truth.

  Michael Jackson

  Real, Lying, Thinking

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• There are a lot of perks that come with fame, and with every positive there's a negative, and then it all kind of balances out.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Balance, Negative, Kind

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• The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect.

  William J. Clinton

  Years, Greed, Age

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• From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.

  W. H. Auden

  Taken, Hands, Plot

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• I wanted to resign from the planet, not just music. It stopped being fun with success. Money got in the way. Everybody got greedy, including me. Fear set in. I got miserable when I became a commodity.

  Artie Shaw

  Fun, Way, Miserable

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• I didn't need more fame or money. I needed more heart.

  Kenny Chesney

  Heart, Needs, Needed

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• When you have had the kind of fame I had, I was always hounded by the media and I lived a very isolated life. Now it's even more difficult. The world has changed dramatically.

  David Cassidy

  Media, World, Kind

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• It's a brutal world out there. If you consider the case of superstar Rajesh Khanna, he was a darling of the masses in his hey days, and his fans resurfaced only after he passed away. Such is the life of actors: one gets so addicted to fame and glory, and then it is very difficult to accept a fall. You are forgotten and only remembered when you die!

  Bipasha Basu

  Fall, Fans, Hey

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• There's no comparison between the most precious parts of one's personal life and success and wealth. If you lost someone near and dear to you, you can't relate it to any amount of fame, fortune and luxury. You just have to go on living.

  Robert Plant

  Luxury, Goes On, Wealth

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• I never took the fame too seriously. It was a great period in my life, but it doesn't define me.

  Jonathan Taylor Thomas

  Thinking, Focus, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is a level of fame that is really unmanageable. But most of the people who experience that level of fame are compensated in other ways. Private villas and chauffeured boats.

  John C. Reilly

  People, Levels, Way

  "John C. Reilly: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. November 21, 2011.

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• But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins, there were men of dissolute lives and women of spotted fame, wretches given over to all mean and filthy vice, and suspected even of horrid crimes. It was strange to see that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Mean, Men, People

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1982). “Tales and Sketches”, p.285, Library of America

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• Fame is like a big eraser. It's strange, now that I'm famous. In my parents' opinion, all the shitty things - all the wreckage of my past - is erased. Now it's like I was never the kid who got arrested. Now I'm a wonderful son.

  Bobcat Goldthwait

  Kids, Son, Past

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's no downside to fame and people who whine about it make me sick. It's the greatest thing in the world.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  People, Sick, World

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• I enjoy fame except when I'm with my daughter. Kids stop me all the time and I don't want her to be jealous of the attention. Also, sometimes I just want to be left alone and I refuse to make rubber faces. That's when they start asking, What's the matter, man, don't you like your job? I say, Yeah, I like my job. But I also like having sex, and I'm not going to do that in front of you either.

  Jim Carrey

  Daughter, Jobs, Sex

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• Most artists are always fighting for their fame. They have that fear, like the saying goes, "out of sight, out of mind." They need to keep themselves out there. I have never had that fear. If I have any fear, it's not doing enough to reach people.

  Chuck D

  Fighting, Artist, Sight

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• I was worried that I didn't have as many Facebook 'likes' as another musician. You can almost feel like a failure if you aren't building your fame in that way.

  Erika M. Anderson

  Musician, Way, Likes

  Source: thequietus.com

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• If you do not find peace within, you will not find it anywhere else. The Goal of Life is the attainment of Peace and not the achievement of power, name, fame and wealth.

  Sivananda

  Names, Goal, Achievement

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• Don't get it twisted. It's not about money, it's not about the fame. It's about I don't have to worry about if my little brother is gonna be able to get a new toy for Christmas. It's those little tiny things that really make up the bigger picture. So, my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

  Nicki Minaj

  Brother, Struggle, Worry

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't feel like a big star.

  Sarah Vaughan

  Stars, Bigs, Feels

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