Quotes About Prominence

It is strange to find ourselves people of consequence.

The prominence of causal intuitions is a recurrent theme in this book because people are prone to apply causal thinking inappropriately, to situations that require statistical reasoning. Statistical thinking derives conclusions about individual cases from properties of categories and ensembles. Unfortunately, System 1 does not have the capability for this mode of reasoning; System 2 can learn to think statistically, but few people receive the necessary training.

Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.

Ahwahnee has hosted dozens of celebrities, including Queen Elizabeth, Eleanor Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy (who arrived via helicopter). Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, and Judy Garland stayed here while filming The Long, Long Trailer, as did William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy while filming Star Trek IV. Robert Redford worked at the Ahwahnee before launching his film career, and Steve Jobs was married on the back lawn in a Buddhist ceremony.

The worse the author, the more he is known.

Advertise, or go under.

I am in my own line a celebrated person—I may say a most celebrated person. My gifts, in fact, are unequalled!

That's what she always wanted to be—at the centre of things.

You'd be a fool or a deluded idealist to think ethics would be prominent on Wall Street. That is not a statement against people in the money business, just a fact.

I just wanna be relevant.

Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent.

Clever lines routinely travel from obscure mouths to prominent ones.

Politicians don't say no to cameras very often.

You cant really put a value on the UFC name. That alone has value in itself.

If I'm on a card, I should be the main event.

I don't know any celebrities. I know a lot of people that most people have never heard of.

The star thing, the celebrity thing, is new to me.

I'm a real big celebrity. I'm this megastar.

I'm a micro-celebrity, about as small a celebrity as you can be.

Anyone can be a celebrity now; this is not a big deal anymore.

There's so much made of the exceptional and the celebrity, the famous, and the wannabees.

I like being the center of attention. I want to be in the limelight, basically.

My dad is a showman, he likes to be in the centre of everything.