"You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing."
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"It's so glamorous, you have to see it." (describing the $92 million Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)"
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"I'd pick fortune over fame any day."
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"I'm still very careless about my public persona. Not careless so to speak but I'm not one for fame. I think fame is the worst part about it."
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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."
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"I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful."
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"The fewer men, the greater share of honor."
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"I would not lose so great an honor As one man more methinks would share with me For the best hope I have."
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"Too much to know is to know naught but fame."
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"Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?"
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"I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf."
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"With the mega-fame came the mega-downfall - you know, with the press and everything - and at a young age, it was very stressful to me."
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"When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong."
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"A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write."
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"Extraordinary beauty can be a curse to the one who possesses it. one pays a dear price for fame and fortune"
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"The cursed hunger for gold. -Auri sacra fames"
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"Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths."
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"Nothing but pain, stuck in this game, searching for fortune and fame."
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"Mortalhood is a fine state to visit, but you'd better not call it home."
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"I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say."
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