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What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt it takes off the edge of admiration.

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

...to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them withou...

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Some day each of us will be famous for fifteen minutes.

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

ligion is the opiate of the masses." "I did masses of opiates religiously.

I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviat...

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Oh! This'll impress you - I'm actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is s...

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After I am dead I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.

Before such a prodigious career judgement is torn between blame and admiration.

On that same tour we ran into a band at Aylesbury Friars, a biggish venue in Oxfordshire, England. T...

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Craig FergusonAmerican on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

A celebrity is a person known for his well-knownness. Celebrities intensify their celebrity images s...

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Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah too it has a wing.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

When I pass my name in such large letters I blush but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.

The only man who wasn't spoilt by being lionized was Daniel.

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themsel...

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The happiness of being envied is glamour.Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends ...

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All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

If someone tells you you're not beautiful, turn around and walk away so they canhave a great view of...

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Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.