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Fame is one thing, notoriety is another. -- Lana Turner
It's hard for people to get their hands around fame, because it's heady stuff, and you have to look at it as being dangerous explosives, and you have to handle it with care. -- George Hamilton
What's fame, after all? It can be what someone writes on your tombstone. -- Peter Duncan
Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are. -- Erica Jong
Fame is a fickle thing that only lasts as long as you can be out there offering yourself to the public. And as soon as you relax for five minutes, they're gone, you know, and they're following somebody else. -- Jesse Stone
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead. -- John Dryden
My fame is due to broadcast television. -- John Hodgman
Fame is like a castle. Castles are beautiful to dream and wonderful to watch, but too encircled to live in! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
It's an odd beast, fame. It's got multiple personalities. -- Woody Harrelson
Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor any organ in the body to relish it; an object of desire placed out of the possibility of fruition. -- Joseph Addison
Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it. -- Ryan Adams
Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal. -- Marilyn Monroe
Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths. -- Ray Bradbury
Fame - the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well. -- Lady Gaga
Some people obtain fame, others deserve it. -- Doris Lessing
Fame, that public destruction of one in process of becoming, into whose building-ground the mob breaks, displacing his stones. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise. -- Samuel Johnson
Fame gets you in the door but it doesn't keep you in the room. -- Madonna Ciccone
Fame is the accumulation of misunderstandings around a well-known name -- Gregory Benford
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. -- Emily Dickinson
Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will magnify it. -- Alanis Morissette
Fame is the worst pain known to man.
It's stronger than heroin. -- Nicki Minaj
Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive. -- Jodhi May
Fame is a constant effort. -- Jules Renard
Fame is like a suffocating castle sieged by the enemy. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you've never seen before, and they're at a great advantage. -- Scott Hamilton
Fame is a bee.
It has a song -
It has a sting -
Ah, too, it has a wing. -- Emily Dickinson
Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both. -- Marilyn Monroe
There was a time when fame meant that you were either someone who is really gifted in your field or you were making an impact or you are famous because you were a really horrible person, you know? But now, you can become famous by eating a frog. It's just not the same thing. -- Debbie Allen
Fame must be received with gratitude and handled with humility. -- Rupali Desai
Fame is a perverse deformity, an ego swelling as ludicrous as an extra organ, and the people that have it, for a huge part, are willfully and deliberately fucked-up past the point of ever having anything sweet or human or normal about themselves ever again. -- Cintra Wilson
Fame is a heavy burden. -- Voltaire
Fame destroys the people who believe it. -- Karen Kingsbury
Fame is proof that the people are gullible. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For the average person leading an ordinary life, fame holds an hypnotic attraction. Many would sooner perish than exist in anonymity. But for the unlucky few who've had notoriety forced upon them, infamy can be a sentence more damning than any prison term -- Emily Thorne
Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live. -- Bayard Taylor
Fame does different things to different people. For some people it makes them a better person. -- Andy Cohen
Fame is like drifting clouds, transient and ephemeral. Memory is forever. -- Debasish Mridha
Fame means being respected by everybody, or having some quality that is desired by all men, or by most, or by the good, or by the wise. -- Aristotle.
Fame is such a waste. It can't even be recycled. -- Sumana Roy
Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention. -- Clay Shirky
Fame is fickle, but Obscurity is usually faithful to the end. -- Mason Cooley
Fame is a very unnatural human condition. When you stop to realize that Abraham Lincoln was probably never seen by more than 400 people in a single evening, and that I can enter over 40 million homes in a single evening due to the power of television, you have to admit the situation is not normal. -- Chevy Chase
Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Fame, on its best day, is kind of like a friendly wave from a stranger by the side of the road. And when it's not so good, it's like a long walk home, all alone, with nobody in when you get there. -- Bruce Springsteen
Fame puts you there where things are hollow. -- David Bowie
No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind. -- Charles Sumner
Fame is like getting across the street. It's like, if there's nothing to be across the street for, it's a pointless destination. -- Mos Def
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty. -- Patrick Dempsey
What people don't realize is that fame, whatever your worst experience in high school, when you were being bullied by those ten kids in high school, fame is that, but on a global scale, where you're being bullied by millions of people constantly. -- Megan Fox
Fame is O.K. I hate it, but it's O.K. I'm beginning to understand how I can be hidden. It's an attitude. -- Romain Duris
Fame is proof that people are gullible. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times. -- Nick Mancuso
Fame is a Bleet, man. -- Brad Pitt
Fame separates you from life. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name. -- Joni Mitchell
Fame or perceived success - it all comes from groupthink. -- Chance The Rapper
Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before. -- Jesse Metcalfe
A good reputation is better than fame. -- Louis Dudek
Fame makes me feel wanted and loved, anybody wants that. -- Michael Hutchence
Fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people. -- Erica Jong
I think fame is one of those things where you have a window of opportunity and you have a certain amount of trust from the fans, and without that you don't have a career. -- Patrick Dempsey
Knowledge is power as well as fame. -- Rufus Choate
What of fame? Everybody knows your name: never again are you alone. -- Tupac Shakur
Fame is the beauty parlor of the dead. -- Benjamin De Casseres
The real trap of fame is its irresistibility. -- Ingrid Bengis
That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you. -- Lady Gaga
Fame is a form of misunderstanding. -- Madonna
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings, only one thing endures and that is character. -- Horace Greeley
I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting. -- Taylor Momsen
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction. -- Dante Alighieri
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls. -- Edmund Burke
Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something. -- Ouida
Fame can be very disruptive. It can be like a drug. It gives you the feeling that you're happy, it gives you the feeling of self-importance, it gives you the feeling of fullfilment; but it can distract you from what is really important. -- Madonna Ciccone
Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute. -- Herman Melville
This fame is a juggernaut: It slaps you in the face, and you don't know what you're doing. You don't know who has your back, who is your support system. -- Estelle
Money and fame? I never had it, don't really know if I want it. -- Kevin Harvick
Fame is nothing but the sum of all the misunderstandings that cluster around a new name ... Wherever a human achievement becomes truly great, it seeks to hide its face in the lap of general, nameless greatness. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do. -- Jonathan Frid
Anonymity is the new fame. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy. -- Bennett Cerf
Those who despise fame seldom deserve it. We are apt to undervalue the purchase we cannot reach, to conceal our poverty the better. It is a spark which kindles upon the best fuel, and burns brightest in the bravest breast. -- Jeremy Collier
Power has got to be the most intoxicating thing in the world - and of all forms of power the most intoxicating is fame. -- Diana Vreeland
Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp. -- Edward Young
Fame, infamy, they're of the same family. -- Gemma Malley
Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. -- Socrates
The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature. -- Jerry Rubin
Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work. -- Adam Clayton
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion. -- Al Goldstein
Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character. -- Harry Truman
Integrity of life is fame's best friend,
Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end. -- John Webster
Fame is like a big piece of meringue - it's beautiful, and you keep eating it, but it doesn't really fill you up. -- Pierce Brosnan
So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing. -- Richard O'brien
Fame was initially this kind of blunt tool that was thrust into my hands very young. -- Josh Hartnett
