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"Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent."
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"He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause."
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"Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love."
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"Fame, that public destruction of one in process of becoming, into whose building-ground the mob breaks, displacing his stones."
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"Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame"
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"Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles."
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"Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?"
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"I'm not going to be somebody who wants to hold on to my fame for the rest of my life."
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"There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too"
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"You know, there's a moment when you're famous when it's unbearable to go out because you're too famous. And then there's a moment when you're famous just right."
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"The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous."
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"I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen."
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"I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even put a stopper on death."
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"I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in."
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"Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power."
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"Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame."
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"People afraid of criticism but I always put myself in a sacrificial position,they been know I ain't just rappin for fame"
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"The love of fame usually spurs on the mind. [Lat., Ingenio stimulos subdere fama solet.]"
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"When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous."
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