Quotes About Notoriety

I woke up famous for about a minute, then stopped being famous again.

I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.

People like RZA and DJ Premier are really on the balcony to scope my musical theories. They also help me focus on making sure I make money, making sure I get the notoriety I should, just regular stuff that friends do when you're in the business. And to call them friends is amazing.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

He liked to collect celebrities.

Fame is just popularity on a higher level.

Will a little fame distract you?

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

And barking famous, these friends are

Cultural wars might seem an indication of strong political involvements. Actually they are a substitute. The notoriety they receive from the media and from politicians eager to take firm stands on nonsubstantive issues serves to distract attention and contribute to a cant politics of the inconsequential

You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.

Of course my life has changed because now everybody knows who Felix Baumgartner is.

Coming to grips with being a bit of a celebrity. That's not anything I ever expected to have to deal with in my life.

My moment of infamy was a long time ago.

My reaction when I hear the word 'celebrity' is, 'Who, me?' It doesn't feel like I'm famous.

I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.

In reading celebrities, public figures, their lives are on Google! So, obviously, there's information about them.

Wilde's permanent celebrity belongs to literature, and only his transient notoriety to police news.

I don't think I am even that popular. In fact, people must be wondering who the hell Nia Sharma is!

We can't recreate Woodstock, nor do we want to. We want to turn its notoriety into a place where we can shape controlled, scaled-down musical events of all sorts.

It was unimaginable what happens to you when you get known for a book that everybody reads, or that everybody has heard of. If the book is said to be sexy, the crazies come out of the woodwork.

'Famous' is a very weird word. I feel like - I feel like that's definitely not me.

It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill.

Fame necessarily isn't really tied to success at all. Fame is just being recognized for doing what you do, whether it's good or bad. Osama bin Laden was famous.