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" Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. "
William Penn
Famous
Real
Popularity
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" If you have a famous parent, you know that being famous doesn't make you superior to anyone else. It just means people smile at you more. Everyone was fawning all over my father, but of course, the way you look at your parents when you're a teen is often with a... more critical eye. "
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" To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's. "
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" No matter what you achieve, what you want to aspire to be, or how famous and powerful you become, the most important thing is whether you are excited about each and every moment of your life because of your work and people around you. "
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" When I started skating, it was such a small community. You didn't aspire to be rich or famous or make a career out of it because that wasn't something anyone had done yet. "
Tony Hawk
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" When I started on MySpace, people wanted to support me, but once I rose to fame with the MTV show, they felt like I had abandoned them for some reason, that I was too famous to talk to them anymore. "
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" The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published. "
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Pictures
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" People like consistency. Whether it's a store or a restaurant, they want to come in and see what you are famous for. "
Millard Drexler
People
Restaurant
Famous
" I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated. "
Marilyn Monroe
I Think
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" I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person. "
Donna Leon
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" In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness. "
Norman O. Brown
Money
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Famous
" O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. "
William Penn
Despise
Help
Lord
" One thing about D.C. that's funny to me is that you end up running into famous political figures who you've seen on television who you think are not real until you see them. "
Maz Jobrani
End
Famous
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" It wasn't until after I became famous that people noticed I played in the NFL. I kind of snuck in! "
Terry Crews
People
Kind
After
" Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. "
William Penn
Always
Speak
End
" The smartest thing that an actor can do is embrace the thing that made them famous as opposed to run away from it or deny that it happened. That does a disservice to most actors. To me, it looks like you're ungrateful. "
Sean Hayes
You
Run
Me
" Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them. "
Francis I
Them
Princes
Immortality
" I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respected by people I respect. And I wanted to be rich. It's best to get rich, then you can do what you want. "
Caitlin Moran
Famous
Best
Hate
" I know what it's like to be famous. It's good money and it's great fun. A real kick in the pants. People wave at you and smile at you. You get great tables in restaurants. They send you gifts - beautiful clothes and cars. "
Pierce Brosnan
Money
Beautiful
Great
" I'm not trying to be famous, I'm not trying to be the next whatever. I'm just trying to be someone that contributes positivity with my talent. "
Letitia Wright
" I will either be famous or infamous. "
Otto Dix
Either
Will
Infamous
" Sweden is famous for many things - but not fashion. "
Stefan Persson
Many
Things
Fashion
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Juliette Binoche
Famous
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Me
" Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come upon an eviction - like, in 'Invisible Man' there's the famous eviction scene in Harlem, and people are gathered around, and they move the family back in. "
Matthew Desmond
Family
You
Man
" There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause. "
George Matthew Adams
Famous
Great
Woman
" We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be! "
Alan Vega
Club
Year
Texas
" I'm actually a very private person. Sometimes I'm in denial that I'm really famous. "
Britney Spears
Sometimes
Denial
Very
" If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective. "
Danny Bonaduce
Start
Famous
You
" See, 'A Time to Kill' was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do. "
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Big
Weekend
Time
" I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was. "
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Music
Know
Want
" Famous doesn't mean anything. Just because people know my face doesn't mean they know us or that it makes us any more interesting or better. "
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Know
Interesting