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" Celebrities have more influence to be able to reach out to people, but people are becoming famous on Facebook and social media every day. "

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" It's cool to be recognized, but it's not something that I was seeking or sought after. I never wanted to be famous. "

" As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than the famous figures we are used to celebrating, or demonizing, in our histories. "

" The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words. "

" And even though I'm famous, I still go through things that young people go through. "

" I got into this business because I like acting and I want to make movies. I would be happy living the rest of my life never famous. "

" Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability. "

George Bernard Shaw

" Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion. "

" I don't know what 'famous' is, really. "

Karl Pilkington

" I love photography - I fell in love with photography, I think, because it was my own thing, it wasn't something I needed other people's permission to do. So, it was really freeing for me actually to be able to not be a famous person and just to take pictures. "

Amanda de Cadenet

" The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the other hand, it is the novice usually who gets the famous ace by doing at some moment the unexpected thing. "

Eddie Rickenbacker

" They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. "

" Fame is a thing that happens when you do something you love - nobody wants to be famous for the wrong reasons. It's not my goal, but if being more famous means I can get more music out, that's cool. "

" That's because I didn't have to work with Madea. I only had to work with Madea once, and that was at the barbecue and I didn't have to get close to her. "

" My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for 'Reggie-isms,' kind of like 'Yogi-isms.' He always said if you want to be a good quarterback, when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him, 'You mean ambidextrous, coach?' "

" We need to teach our kids, because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment, that however rich you are, however famous you are, however glamorous you are, everyone has to live by the same rules. "

" But I don't feel the need to be famous. "

" I'll never forget one of those things that my father said to me. My father said: 'You know what? We have had so many amazingly positive experiences that we would have never had because you're famous. We can stand to have a couple negatives ones, too.' "

" 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. "

Franco Modigliani

" My daughter couldn't care less about me being famous. She finds it revolting and, like a lot of teenagers, is virtually allergic to me. That started at 12 and hasn't gone anywhere yet. "

" I love being famous - it's phenomenal. "

" When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to handle being famous. "

Domhnall Gleeson

" I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis. "

" To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty. "

" But there are still good shows like 24, Boomtown and the Wire, the Shield. "

" You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing. "

" If you chase fame, you make bad choices. Being famous isn't interesting. "

" Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I'm really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen. "

" Kim Kardashian is a major player coming off of a reality show, and nobody can turn a blind eye to what she's accomplished, no matter how you see her. "

" Whether it's because of how somebody looks or because of what they're wearing, you kind of assess a person in the first five minutes before they even speak. "

" When I was a child, I saw in the news that a person from Belitung had done well in sports in Jakarta, and I just couldn't imagine that it was possible for someone from here to become famous, and it's still very isolated out here. "