If it were just a dream to be famous, then I probably would have died a really quick death, because there is nothing about me that equals fame. I'm not a standup comedian. I don't sing.
Viola Davis
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Fame is a constant effort.
Jules Renard
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I want to be part of Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame, but I don't want to be part of the kind of Hall of Fame that's based on voters' beliefs and assumptions.
Barry Bonds
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A gimmick would be something you'd do to attract attention or to bring fame and fortune.
Mark Kozelek
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Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.
Mary MacLane
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Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?
James Beattie
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Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction.
Moses Mendelssohn
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I spent so long studying really hard to become a fine actor, but threw it all away because I got the adulation and the fame so easily.
Mickey Rourke
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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.
George Clooney
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Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power, and money, as minorities; and are liable and likely to be equally - perhaps more than equally, because more boldly - rapacious, tyrannical and unprincipled, if intrusted with power.
Lysander Spooner
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I never want to lose sight of my roots... A lot of artists want the riches and the fame. I want to tell stories you can put into the context of your life.
Lukas Forchhammer
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Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
Gene Tierney
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I don't want to be a rock star. I had my 15 minutes of fame.
Linda Perry
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Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
Lucius Accius
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I'm just happy to be sitting right here in Chicago and right here at U.S. Cellular Field, holding my Hall of Fame press conference. I'm proud of that.
Frank Thomas
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You can't win fame; you have to earn it. If you're given fame without working for it, then you're not going to be ready for it.
Lemmy
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Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you have to tame.
Lisa Marie Presley
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When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.
Cate Blanchett
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I was conscious of my father's fame from the time I was 6.
Kirk Douglas
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I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.
Jason Patric
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Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
Dante Alighieri
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The life of fame was never meant for me.
Kim Jong-hyun
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I hate fame.
Josh Hutcherson
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Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.
Edward Norton
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