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“I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know.”
“Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I'm famous.”
“Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.”
“You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.”
“It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.”
“Oprah was famous for going to a garden party and ad-libbing. She could literally interview people for a half hour about nothing, and it was entertaining. She had her own show before she had her own...”
“The people I want are very famous and very rich, and all I can offer them is a bit of exposure on TV and a bit of cash, so it's a miracle we get any guests at all. But we have been very lucky.”
“It wasn't until after I became famous that people noticed I played in the NFL. I kind of snuck in!”
“The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.”
“Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.”
“I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence.”
“I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.”
“To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.”
“In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.”
“Birds have wings they're free they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy. ”
“Biologically inspired materials could revolutionize materials science. People looking at spider silk and abalone shells are looking for new ways to make materials better, cheaper, and with less tox...”
“I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.”
“Most people don't realize it, because they're invisible, but microbes make up about a half of the Earth's biomass, whereas all animals only make up about one one-thousandth of all the biomass.”
“I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.”
“People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.”
