Quotes About Recognition

I love the fame, I love the attention, and I love the perks.

Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.

I've always felt that celebrity was wonderful for a lot of the perks that it could give you.

I am just a normal guy, and suddenly I am really, really famous. It's definitely got its perks; I never have to wait in line at a restaurant.

I think that 'celebrity' and 'chef' should be a permanent oxymoron.

To be in a position where an organization like the Bulls creates a bust of you that will permanently be displayed in a building like the United Center says it all. It's hard to put into words because it is such an honor. It's great to know that something like that will be around forever.

I always thought that I would just be working in obscurity in perpetuity.

Many people in San Francisco know me, and they know my persistence.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.

To become a star is the beginning of the end. I don't really want to be saddled with a screen persona.

What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.

The hard part for me was being an Olympic gold medalist and having that persona; you don't see too many Olympic gold medalists go into acting. It's actually even more difficult. You're not taken very seriously, and you're looked at in a different light, so it was kind of hard for me to go straight from Olympics into acting.

I think it would be really brutal to put on a persona and get famous for that persona. Like, 'I'm number one, I'm the best!' because that sounds like a lot of pressure.

My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.

there is a global rejection of society as it presently exists together with acceptance of the mechanisms that produce that society. De facto inequalities are rejected, but the mechanisms that generate inequality in general are implicitly recognized.

Even when I'm railed at, I get my quota of renown.

They say that this lot is bitterest: to recognize the good but by necessity to be barred from it.

The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.

There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power.

Ciudad llena de inmigrantes, sin alma todavía tras sus edificios de vidrio y sus autopistas de concreto, donde el éxito se mide en millones de bolívares, Caracas no tiene tiempo para reconocer talentos que no vengan consagrados de antemano - Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza

The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another.

It was like discovering that your innermost fires and terrors, the things you believed no one else could fathom, were in fact the basis of a recognized philosophy. Some part of you felt intimately invaded, threatened; some other part fell to its knees and sobbed in gratitude that it was no longer alone.