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" What I've said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar. "
Seamus Heaney
Famous
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" The rich and famous expect to get a lot for their story, whether they are writing it themselves or not. It's not that they need the money, of course; it's a question of ego, like catching the biggest fish. "
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" The Kardashians can be famous for being famous. What do they do? I can't figure it out. "
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" Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He allegedly was seen transporting two 16 year olds across state line for immoral porpoises. "
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" You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound. "
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" Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. "
Andy Warhol
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Measure
" Economists agree about economics - and that's a science - and they disagree about economic policy because that's a value judgment... I've had profound disagreements on policy with the famous Milton Friedman. But, on economics, we agree. "
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" We played at a festival in Mexico City, at the same time as another famous artist, and I reckon we had 55,000 people watching New Order; the other had 7,000. I think from that I've discovered the secret of success in the music industry: don't do any promotion. "
Bernard Sumner
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City
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" Turing was a quite brilliant mathematician, most famous for his work on breaking the German Enigma codes. It is no exaggeration to say that, without his outstanding contribution, the history of the Second World War could have been very different. "
Gordon Brown
World
Work
War
" I appreciate my music is famous, but I'd rather my face wasn't so that I can just live a normal life. "
Sia
Music
Face
Live
" One famous movie executive, who shall remain nameless, exposed himself to me in his office. 'Mr X,' I said, 'I thought you were a producer, not an exhibitor.' "
Shirley Temple
Said
You
Thought
" 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
Long
Famous
" I'm supposed to be famous, but I don't think I like it so much. "
Caster Semenya
Think
Like
Famous
" The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God's sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them. "
Seamus Heaney
Behavior
Speech
Persuasion
" At 13, I loved how so many of my peers sang and played acoustic guitar, so I started recording videos with covers of famous songs and posting them online. "
Shawn Mendes
Famous
Started
Peers
" You can become famous but you can't become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous. "
Dave Chappelle
Famous
You
Infamous
" What's the name of that famous museum in Paris? The Louvre? I went through that place in 20 minutes. "
Peter Falk
Name
Place
Paris
" In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous. "
Michael Caine
You
Unknown
Restaurant
" A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. "
Seamus Heaney
Expectation
Said
Political
" In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game. "
Bobby Thomson
Run
Famous
Game
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You
Write
" I don't think about being famous, really. Being an author, I don't generally get stopped as I walk down the street. It's not like being a movie star. "
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Down
Star
Street
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Carol Burnett
Famous
Celebrity
Long
" I have been famous for a long time. "
Warren Beatty
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Time
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" In a lot of aspects it's cooler that we don't have a lot of really overly famous people in the band. "
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" I played old men back in drama school. It's just now that I'm drawing level with the age of the characters I play, but I'm fine with that, and I've certainly never envied people who became hugely famous when they were young. "
Paul Giamatti
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People
School
" Indy makes the race driver. You become famous when you come here. "
Rodger Ward
Here
You
Race
" The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids. "
Danielle Steel
California
Children
Judge
" The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to radical Islam since before they came to office. If you look at everything that's transpired since the famous Cairo speech in 2009, it's all been an embrace of those who are the most radical elements in that part of the world. That is not a good sign for America's foreign policy. "
Oliver North
America
Blind
Eye
" Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence. "
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Famous
World
Doors