Notoriety Quotes - Page 3

• America puts killers on the cover of Time magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our favorite movie stars.

  Marilyn Manson

  Stars, America, Giving

  "Columbine: Whose Fault Is It?" by Marilyn Manson, www.rollingstone.com. June 24, 1999.

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• There's this notion that in order to draw attention and to be considered for roles I want to be considered for, you need a certain amount of notoriety.

  Bryan Cranston

  Order, Needs, Roles

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• I learned that famous writers are people with foibles like anyone else and this helped me realize reaching their level of notoriety wasn't impossible.

  Kirby Wright

  People, Levels, Impossible

  "Hawaii, Mortuaries, And Saving Kurt Vonnegut: An Interview With Kirby Wright". Interview with George Wallace, www.greatweatherformedia.com. September 5, 2013.

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• When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial.

  David Duchovny

  Cheesy

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• When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.

  Bil Keane

  Teacher, School, Drawing

  "Comics: Meet the Artist" online cha, www.washingtonpost.com. July 31, 2002.

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• The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one more clout with publishers and more notoriety among journalists. The effect on one's writing, however, is nil - otherwise, one would be in deep trouble.

  John Banville

  Writing, Careers, Giving

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• There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy surface of popular culture. But these days, pop culture seems to have gotten fuzzier and fuzzier; notoriety comes and goes in the snap of a finger.

  Susan Orlean

  Track, Mind, Giants

  "William, Kate, and Justin Bieber" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. April 28, 2011.

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• Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing had it not been for the sex videos that lofted them into reality-TV notoriety. Once notoriety has warmed into familiarity, celebrity itself becomes one big 'Brady Bunch' reunion, or a therapy session with Dr. Drew.

  James Wolcott

  Sex, Reality, Paris

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• I can’t think of any negative [aspects of working in the wrestling industry]. The positive are the money, the comradery, the prestige, the notoriety. A lot of pluses.

  Ric Flair

  Wrestling, Thinking, Negative

  Source: smackdown5.moonfruit.com

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• I think somewhere in the '90s, it started to shift, and you started to see a lot of film and television actors doing theater, and producers using the notoriety of the film and television actors to sell tickets.

  Zachary Quinto

  Thinking, Tickets, Film And Television

  Interview with Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

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• Who is this Monet whose name sounds just like mine and who is taking advantage of my notoriety?

  Edouard Manet

  Names, Sound, Advantage

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• Notoriety is cheap. It's just easier to get noticed by doing something bad.

  Lionel Shriver

  Easier

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

  Neil Gaiman

  Obscurity, Fame

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• I think that whenever a Jew has any kind of notoriety, good or bad, the Jews find it to be good.

  Sarah Silverman

  Thinking, Kind, Be Good

  "Sarah Silverman: Turning Ignorance Into Comedy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 22, 2010.

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• It changed my life in an extreme way. I dont know if you could calculate just how much it does [change your life]. There was so much notoriety for me in my first season, and to finish by winning the Super Bowl and get the MVP set my place in history. It cements it and its very special. There is something that comes with it, something everyone recognizes and knows. No one can ever take it away from you.

  Kurt Warner

  Winning, Mvp, Special

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• This year, notoriety got confused with fame, and the devil is down hearted because there is nothing left for him to claim.

  Don Henley

  Art, Confused, Media

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• Fame, or notoriety, whichever that special noise may be called when the world like a hound 'gives tongue' and announces that the quarry in some form of genius is at bay, is apt to increase its clamor in proportion to the aloofness of the pursued animal.

  Marie Corelli

  Animal, Giving, Special

  Marie Corelli (2016). “Innocent”, p.391, Marie Corelli

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• It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Clouds, Dust

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• Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.

  Ouida

  Littles, Fame

  Ouida (1890*). “Othmar. Friendship. And other stories”

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• Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy the pretensions we have, and those which we have not, and do not even wish for. We envy the greatest qualities and every trifling advantage. We envy the most ridiculous appearance or affectation of superiority. We envy folly and conceit; nay, we go so far as to envy whatever confers distinction of notoriety, even vice and infamy.

  William Hazlitt

  Passion, Pride, Thinking

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1466, Delphi Classics

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• Without music I wouldn't have the ability to be in business. The opportunity to be in business came with the finances from music and the notoriety that comes with being successful as an artist. So I see myself as an artist first, but I'm absolutely conscious of business.

  Curtis Jackson

  Successful, Artist, Opportunity

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• Fifteen Minutes of Notoriety Beats the Best Advertising Money Can Buy

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Business, Fifteen, Advertising

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• Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart.

  James Branch Cabell

  Heart, People, May

  James Branch Cabell (2001). “The Cream of the Jest”, p.78, Wildside Press LLC

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• It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin.

  Confucius

  Mean, Men, Way

  Confucius (2009). “The Confucian Analects, the Great Learning & the Doctrine of the Mean”, p.431, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If you get a certain amount of notoriety for doing something, and you can stick to that type of project for the rest of your life and make a decent living, I think you still have a responsibility to stretch. Flexibility is what keeps you alive.

  Clint Eastwood

  Teamwork, Responsibility, Thinking

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