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Quotes About Prominence

There's no denying that my popularity helped me a lot.
~ Amala Akkineni
I think I'm a crossover athlete to get the sport into the mainstream media.
~ Jordan Burroughs
If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted by scandals about cheating. Sport is losing its shine and allure.
~ Martin Jacques
Obscurity is never a virtue.
~ Roald Dahl
Peace" is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence—unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Peace" is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence—unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties. But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Peace" is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Within four years, Belmont's name was on the lips of every New Yorker. He was the city's leading investment banker and the hottest thing to hit society-and he was a Jew.
~ Kenneth L. Fisher
Hr. Oftedal holder en stilling som mangen minister kunne misunne ham. På ti år har han drevet det til å bli en av Norges nevneverdigheter, – og det i ti bevegede år, hvori større skikkelser enn hans er falt uten å huskes mer, og større evner og krefter enn hans har kjempet uten å vinne.
~ Knut Hamsun
My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.
~ Zach Braff
Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.
~ Dee Dee Myers
Mrs. Gerry was an outstanding figure here," the paper noted, "not because she tried to be, but because she couldn't help being.
~ Denise Kiernan
The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous.
~ Dennis Prager
The researcher is more memorable than the researched.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Life is too short to remain unnoticed
~ Salvador Dali
No one who is unmemorable is going to be chosen for an important job, because one cannot select what one cannot remember.
~ Jeffrey Pfeffer
Very Important People, baby!
~ Enid Blyton
Mr. Charismo? Surely not Tibor Charismo, the most famous man in all of England.
~ Eoin Colfer
women had more prominence and power in society in the third millennium bce than they did 2,000 years later.
~ Amanda H. Podany
Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Some papers were taken aback by Coolidge's sudden fame. The New York Times resented the fact that a policy it admired had been promulgated by a figure unfamiliar to its editors.
~ Amity Shlaes
It's almost out of sight out of mind because there's so many cards. One great fight could happens one weekend and another great fight happens next weekend, you kind of get swallowed up in that pack. So you have to find a way to separate yourself and what better way to do that than on ESPN?
~ Aljamain Sterling
It's good to be well known. Everywhere I go it's the same thing - autographs, pictures.
~ Caster Semenya
I have a lot of notoriety now because of the Stormy Daniels case. I was less well known before outside of legal circles.
~ Michael Avenatti