Quotes and Sayings About Fame
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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
-- A. A. Milne -
I haven't got any friends from where I grew up, but that's not to do with fame.
-- Aaron Taylor-JohnsonSource : "Aaron Taylor-Johnson: a star from nowhere". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2012.
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Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
-- Abbott Lawrence Lowell -
It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
-- Adam Clarke -
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Hope roves in a future of fame and wealth.
-- Adelbert von Chamisso -
You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous.
-- Adriana Lima -
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Whoever has recognized the vainglory of individuality will not attach any store ("n'attachera aucun prix à ", Fr.) to fame. The only one thing which is really valuable, it is to do good.
-- African Spir -
Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.
-- Al Goldstein -
I admit that Mendeleev has two wives, but I have only one Mendeleev.
-- Alexander III of Russia -
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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
-- Alexander Pope -
Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
-- Alexander Pope -
What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.
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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
-- Alexander Pope -
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
-- Alexander Pope -
Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
-- Alexander Pope -
To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
-- Alexander Smith -
I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.
-- Alison LohmanSource : Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 12, 2003.
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Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.
-- Allan KaprowSource : Allan Kaprow, Jeff Kelley (2003). “Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life”, p.25, Univ of California Press
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I went to a regular school, not one of those fame academy things.
-- Alyson Hannigan -
I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.
-- America Ferrera -
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Being famous is not all that one should want in life...there is much more to life than name and fame...
-- Amit AbrahamSource : Tim Harford (2012). “The Undercover Economist”, p.113, Oxford University Press, USA
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I guess my claim to fame is I've now gaveled Ted Kennedy to order twice.
-- Amy Klobuchar -
The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.
-- Anderson Cooper -
Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons - for money, or for fame.
-- Andrew Garfield -
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You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.
-- Ang Lee -
Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.
-- Anna Brownell Jameson