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“Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children?”
“Im not too sure what the name of the song was that he was playing when I came in, but whatever it was, he was really stinking it up. He was putting all these dumb, show-offy ripples in the high not...”
“For the ancient Greeks, who lacked our social media, the only way to achieve mass duplication of the details of one's life in the apprehension of others was to do something wondrously worth the tel...”
“The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with o...”
“I'm less amazed with your success and more with how you remain unaffected by what it brings with it.”
“Andy Warhol made fame more famous.”
“I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it.”
“I have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product.”
“I do not ask for the riches that perish or the fame that fades away like a morning mist.”
“A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame.”
“Fame or perceived success - it all comes from groupthink.”
“Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one Helen Keller is the other. ”
“A lot of people are on the internet searching for fifteen minutes of fame I've been on it so long and so often I'm looking for fifteen minutes of Freedom”
“Fame is the responsibility, the perennial discipline, the concubine who solicits and imbibes, bit by bit, the love, the relations, the serenity, and the soul, leaving behind the subaqueous plaudits...”
“He understood then that all his exploits as a reporter, the feats that had won him such recognition and fame, were merely an attempt to keep his most ancient fears at bay, a stratagem for taking re...”
“Fame is a perverse deformity, an ego swelling as ludicrous as an extra organ, and the people that have it, for a huge part, are willfully and deliberately fucked-up past the point of ever having an...”
“If fame came near to you to get you, you must run away from it very fast! Because this is a matter of freedom and captivity!”
“We're famous" iggy whispered so low that Fang could barely hear him."So's Swine Flu" Fang whispered back.”
“Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons of equal achievements who get none. When one man gets a place...”
“I shall bere your noble fame, for ye spake a grete worde and fulfilled it worshipfully.”
