Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.
The thought of money and fame and all that is nice to have. But it's not what's really important.
That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, of careers and politics and money and fame, that was the fake world, where nothing lasted, and things were real only to the extent they harmed or helped people inside their homes.
Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.
Money and fame are very inconvenient and very problematic.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.
Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.
Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.
It does not suit the world to hear that people who are leading a high life, an enviable life, a privileged life are as miserable most days as anybody else, despite the fact that it must be obvious they would be - given that we are all agreed that money and fame do not bring happiness. Instead the world would prefer to enjoy the idea, against what it knows to be true, that wealth and fame do in fact insulate and protect against misery and it would rather we shut up if we are planning to indicate otherwise.
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
If you're a generous person, when you get money and fame, you're going to be more generous. If you're a sharer, you're going to be more sharing. If you're a coward, you're just going to be a bigger coward. That's all money and fame does.
I've always been this way. My father taught this to me. Here's the thing, you have to understand; the thing about having money: Money and fame don't change you, all it does is allow you to be more of who you are anyway.
Money and fame? I never had it, don't really know if I want it.
Success is about having. Excellence is about Being!
I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new.
A lot of times we expect people who get money and fame to suddenly become this "role model" or this "icon." That ain't how it works. Money and fame - all it does it just allows you to be more of who you really are.
I wanted to. I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled. Thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.
When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
To all the young people out there who think money and fame is important: that's only a small piece of the pie. You need an education to be totally secure in life. I feel very secure I can go get a real job now.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
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