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" And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business. "

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" If you're lucky enough to be famous, then it's great if you can use your fame and the power your fame gives you to draw attention to things that really matter. "

Michael Schumacher

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Attention

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" You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world. "

" I get recognized, but I'm not really a famous famous. "

" I'm not interested in being famous. I'm interested in doing my job and doing it well, and that's wrestling, and that's what I love. "

" But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom. "

" Whenever I see a celebrity that comes to watch me play, I'm going to do for them the same thing they've done for me - bring them some type of joy. "

Shaquille O'Neal

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" When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.' "

" If people just want to be famous, that's just not enough to get you up at 4 in the morning to go to work. You have to love what you're doing. "

" I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-quality dog meat. I'm the Alpo of the NBA. "

" When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession. "

" I don't want to be famous for being famous. "

" I mean I was famous for nothing. "

" If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it - young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous - is changed by it. "

" Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. "

" I'm working on bridging the gap between mainstream famous and Internet famous. They're two different things, but eventually, social media will be the way to become a celebrity. "

" The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show. "

" 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. "

" There is a famous musician, Peter Gabriel, who has used my voice in the movie, 'The Last Temptation of Christ.' He used my song in the background. "

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Famous

Last

Song

" Donald Trump is a great friend, and he has four or five Picassos on his plane. And that's where I would look at them. "

" If it were just a dream to be famous, then I probably would have died a really quick death, because there is nothing about me that equals fame. I'm not a standup comedian. I don't sing. "

" I did not wake up one day and say, 'I wanna be famous.' I did not wake up and say, 'I wanna be a UFC fighter.' I woke up and said, 'I want to be successful at something I want to do. I want to fight.' "

" I wasn't going off to New York to be more famous than my father, but in retrospect, that certainly was driving me. He was famous in Philadelphia, but it was also really important to him to be famous. And to a certain extent, I got some of that, even though there were parts of it that horrified me. "

Kevin Bacon

Famous

New York

" I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing. "

T-Pain

Make

Whole

" I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India. "

" It doesn't matter what famous person I've come across in the street, I don't think I've ever shouted. "

" Why don't you bring your face up here and let me punch it? Then you can tell me (if I'm stronger). "

Shaquille O'Neal

Stronger

Face

" But that is the only thing that slows me down is the system. No one, two or three was big enough to slow me down, only the system. It was the system that slowed me down to make my numbers fall. Not because I am older. "

Shaquille O'Neal

Slow

Numbers

" I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge - which is mathematical, essentially - can have a playful visual element to it. "

" I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous. "

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Everybody

Famous

" I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town. "