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" Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young. "
Duke Ellington
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" I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day? I couldn't think of anything worse. "
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" I'm kinda famous for my barbecues - I'm always hosting parties. "
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" For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom. "
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" I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do. "
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" I am not a famous person at home - I'm just a guy here. I'm a father, I'm a companion, I'm a human being. I am not a public figure in my house; I am not a celebrity. I am not a famous person to myself - I am just a guy. "
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" 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. "
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" My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated. "
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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. "
Sushant Singh Rajput
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" I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. "
Duke Ellington
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" What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous. "
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" Wherever I go, there's always a child, an old woman, that comes to me and wants to meet me. Not because I am famous but because they suffered with my family. "
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" I'm the man that made wrestling famous. "
Hulk Hogan
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" I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life. "
Haruki Murakami
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" My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough. "
Aaron Carter
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" I think that once you open the door and allow people in on a certain aspect, it's very hard to then control how far that ripple effect is. So I think that the person who is known or famous has the ability to decide what they do or don't want to share. "
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" Show me an actor who doesn't want to be famous, and I'll show you a liar. Later, you realise that there's more to it than just the acquisition of fame, and money and girls. But that is what drives them and was what drove me, initially. "
Kevin Bacon
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" The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise. "
Erica Jong
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" A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services. "
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" Brooklyn was a famous team. I wanted to play for the Dodgers. "
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" I'm not famous, which generally is an absolute plus point, but if you're on TV, or someone knows who you are, it can be quite helpful to a certain charity or certain cause. "
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" In American military cemeteries all over the world, seemingly endless rows of whitened grave markers stand largely unvisited and in silence. The gardeners tend the lawns, one section at a time. Even at the famous sites, tourism is inconstant. "
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" Fame is really strange. One day you're not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the rules all still apply - yet everyone looks at you differently. "
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" I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others. "
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Down
" Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing. "
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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. "
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Never
" I don't know if any famous people follow me, but their daughters definitely do. "
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" I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting. "
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" I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous. "
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