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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.: Benjamin Haydon
He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.: Chuang-tzu (369 BC - 286 BC), The Great Supreme
You can't choose what you're famous for in life.: Dave Kellett, Sheldon, 10-11-09
The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.: Jessica Alba
If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?: Laura Preble, The Queen Geek Social Club, 2006
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.: Rosie O'Donnell, Today Show interview, 04-08-08
It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.: Rosie O'Donnell, Today Show interview, 04-08-08
I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.: Salma Hayek
Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say, 'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?': Terry Pratchett, Soul Music, page 151
Popularity? It is glory's small change.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)


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