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Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare
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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Horace Greeley
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If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time. -J. K. Rowling
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Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

Davy Crockett
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No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

Charles Sumner
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Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say, 'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?' -Terry Pratchett
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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo
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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Benjamin Haydon
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The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you. -Gloria Vanderbilt
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Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.

Sammy Davis, Jr.
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You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

Dave Kellett
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Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end. -John Webster
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I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

Anthony Hopkins
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The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I'll take anyway to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy, I'll go in as a batboy. -Phil Rizzuto
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I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.

Jean michel Basquiat
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Fame is a bitch, man.

Brad Pitt
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Fame is also a test of character at times... Sometimes I pass the test; sometimes I'm a pain in the ass. Sometimes I'm like, 'Oh, God! I just want to buy some tampons!' -Meg Ryan
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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Chuang tzu
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Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy.

Bennett Cerf
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. -Napoleon Bonaparte
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Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

Jessica Alba
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You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.

Gary Hart
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Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion. -Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.

Salma Hayek
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I had now made about 45 pictures, but what had I become? I knew all too well: a phallic symbol. All over the world I was, as a name and personality, equated with sex.

Errol Flynn
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Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. -George Bernard Shaw
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Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability.

George Bernard Shaw
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We always said the goal was to make these songs famous - not our faces.

Jon Foreman
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The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune. -Amelia Earhart
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