"Once you become famous, there is nothing left but to become infamous."
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"Lighter is the wound foreseen."
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"He helped John Cusak get his girlfriend back."
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"Andy Warhol made fame more famous."
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"I could do with more mobbing. Particularly from women. I'd like to be treated like Ricky Martin."
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"Fame is proof that the people are gullible."
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"The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode."
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"Stardom can be very destructive - particularly if you believe in it."
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"Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble."
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"Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer . . ."
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"What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame."
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"Fame is a form, perhaps the worst form, of incomprehension."
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"Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows."
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"Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame."
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"Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame."
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"Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna."
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"Fame is fleeting, honey. Fame is fleeting and it changes."
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"The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death."
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"Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life."
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"Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag."
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