Fame Quotes - Page 39

• I want a sandwich named after me.

  Jon Stewart

  Sandwiches, Want

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• I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.

  Sophia Bush

  Thinking, People, Assuming

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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.

  Nikki Cox

  Girl, Asking, Want

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• I don't care about money or fame or anything like that, but it would be a perk.

  Lucas Grabeel

  Would Be, Care, Perks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When Grease and Fame came out, people thought they were cheesy.

  Lucas Grabeel

  People, Cheesy, Grease

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• I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.

  Stephen Rea

  Fashion, Believe, People

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• Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That's why I get tired of hearing actors who try to make out that there's a downside to it. Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.

  John Corbett

  Tired, Winning, Risk

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's like being in the middle of a tornado. It's like, whooooooosh, you know what I'm saying? It's like Dorothy-you wake up and find yourself in the land of Oz.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Land, Finding Yourself, Wake Up

  "What does it feel like to be Jennifer Lopez?" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• My fame is largely due to young people, theyre the first ones to discover me.

  Pat Morita

  People, Firsts, Young

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• I want a woman who can go to the saloon with me, not hypocritical, fame seeking

  Denrele Edun

  Want, Hypocritical, Saloons

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• Fame and fortune are calling. Are we taking the call or blocking the number?

  Nicole Richie

  Block, Numbers, Calling

  Nicole Richie (2010). “Priceless: A Novel”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

  Cato the Elder

  Stupidity, Height, Sometimes

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• Lighter is the wound foreseen.

  Cato the Elder

  Lighters, Foreseen, Wounds

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• That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Thinking, People, Stories

  Interview with David Attwell, www.dn.se. December 8, 2003.

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• Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be.

  William Clark

  Selfish, Ambition, Boys

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• I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable.

  Alonzo Mourning

  Inspirational, Basketball, School

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• What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Wall, Reading

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• And no renown can render you well-known:
  For if you think that fame can lengthen life
  By mortal famousness immortalized,
  The day will come that takes your fame as well,
  And there a second death for you awaits.

  Boethius

  Thinking, Well Known, Renown

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• I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish. That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black and a woman proves, I think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Thinking, Years, Black

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.19, Take Root Media

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• All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!

  Edward Abbey

  Want, Rewards, Serious

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.32, RosettaBooks

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• I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

  Zadie Smith

  Book, Writing, Ambition

  "White knuckle ride". The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2000.

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• To have people like my work, even if it's my old work, I can't ask for nothing nicer than that.

  Henry Winkler

  People, Asks, Ifs

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• All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

  William James

  Health, Love Is, Wings

  William James (1911). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature; Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902”

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• Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.

  Homer

  Heaven, Sound, Earth

  Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.384

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• You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.

  Alan Shepard

  Believe, Book, Pages

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