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Quotes About Fame

The Beatles said 'all you need is love,' then they broke up.
~ Larry Norman
Celebrity is a pretty stunning thing. At first I was like 'They love me! Oh, I love them, too.' And suddenly, I was tap-dancing on my pedestal and it was whack! Facedown in the dirt.
~ Sharon Stone
If I could be any famous person, I'd be John Wilkes Booth, because I'd love to shoot Abraham Lincoln in the face
~ Thom Yorke
If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.
~ John Piper
You love what you do, you are cursed with it, and then you get known for being cursed with it
~ Armand Assante
Television, I love it, everything that happened before television lumped together, never caused folks to turn on a street to stare at me, or waitresses to ask for autographs.
~ Bennett Cerf
I'd love to be a pop star - at heart.
~ Candice Swanepoel
Schools may be famous for many things: academics, graduates, sports teams. They are not supposed to be famous for murders.
~ Maureen Johnson
The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.
~ Maurice Sendak
She remembered having read that all the greatest men in history had been of less than the middle height.
~ Max Beerbohm
Yet, though a Greek would have railed at her asymmetry, and an Elizabethan have called her "gipsy," Miss Dobson now, in the midst of the Edwardian Era, was the toast of two hemispheres.
~ Max Beerbohm
For a whole month, the whole demi-monde was forgotten for one English virgin. Never, even in Paris, had a woman triumphed so.
~ Max Beerbohm
If a little learning is dangerous, a little fame can be devastating.
~ Maya Angelou
Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.
~ Meg Cabot
anybody can be a princess. all you have todo is have the right parents. it's no harder than being born Paris Hilton, for God's sake. at least you remember to put on underwear in the morning, i'm assuming
~ Meg Cabot
But I don't care what Megan Fox or Jessica Biel say: There are definite advantages to being the hottest girl on the planet. Number one was that I got paid for it. A lot.
~ Meg Cabot
The THE TABLOIDS are always going to be a war for POPULARITY in the CELEB world.
~ Meg Cabot
they don't seem to me to be as talented as either Adele, Taylor, or of course my sweet, sad Britney.
~ Meg Cabot
Celebrities?" "They're the famous people of this world. They're mostly actors, singers, musicians. 'Stars,' we call them. Like... instead of the stars we look up to in the sky, they're the people we look up to.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
Mallory t?šil postavení celebrity. Když se ho jeden reportér New York Times zeptal, pro? chce zdolat Everest, George odpovÄ›dÄ›l tÃ…â"¢emi slavnými slovy, jež znají snad vÅ¡ichni horolezci. Tato slova jsou tlukoucím srdcem, mottem pohánÄ›jícím mnoho odvážných pr?zkumník? a dobrodruh?. "Protože tam je.
~ Bear Grylls
Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that in dominator culture, in a greedy culture, in a culture that uses so much of the world's resources. How do men and women, boys and girls, live lives of compassion, justice and love? And I think that's the visionary challenge for feminism and all other progressive movements for social change.
~ bell hooks
I feel enormously blessed to be a successful black woman writer in this culture, but I have found my small fame, such as it is, to be very isolating... because I think that especially for black women, the more we rise from the bottom, the more we move and journey, the more we are the targets of the most brutal and vicious attacks.
~ bell hooks
I was just twenty-one and my name was known wherever men sharpened swords. I was a warrior. A sword warrior, and I was proud of it.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Reputation! It is the one thing that outlives us. Men die, women die, all die, but reputation lives on like the echo of a song, and men crave reputation, as they crave the heavy arm rings that mark a warrior's victories.
~ Bernard Cornwell