Quotes About Recognition

They have a modest celebrity, sir. There's been a ballad.

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.

When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

As soon as he saw her face, he knew what it would look like when she ended it.

Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.

I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

A plaque and platinum status is whack if I'm not the baddest.

Proof had this ability to not only nurture my talent, but to see that diamond in the rough when a million people could be looking at the same thing... and just not see it.

He says, "I would walk around the township and I could point them out, which girls had been abused. You could see it in them. There's a luminosity to incest. The taboo is so strong and the damage so great. Luminosity--do you understand? It travels across oceans and down generations. They shine with it.

You're good, did you know that?' Oh, yes.

They welcomed him as a hero, but he now knew that heroes were soon created by those needing reflected glory.

It's funny, having the same name as someone. Me, Emma Watson and Emma Stone, the amount of times I've been called Emma Watson or Emma Stone is so funny. It's just 'cause we're all named Emma. None of us look alike.

I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two.

The first time I was nominated, I didn't know anything about the Oscars. That was almost 15 years ago. I just did Oscar week and enjoyed it very much because I was with my mum. Even so, each time it's happened I've come down with some ghastly infection. It is overwhelming for people. It has nothing to do really at all with your performance. It comes down to if you get an Oscar for your film, then the revenue for your film goes up. They mean a great deal. I can't deny it.

Lindsay [Doran] goes round the table and introduces everyone -- making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.

he's the kind of guy who lets on in the provinces that he's very well known in Moscow, and in Moscow that he's very well known in the provinces.

Motrich hasn't published a thing and never will, but the advantage of censorship is that you can be an unpublished author without anyone suspecting you lack talent—on the contrary.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age -- what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.

La testarudez es el puente gracias al cual los idiotas pasan a la Historia transformados en héroes, en símbolos o en genios.