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" I am a celebrity, and it feels good to be famous. "

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" Powerful women intimidate men. If she's a really well-known woman, she has a career, she's famous - in that case, men are really afraid. "

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" Of all the rabbinic sages of antiquity, perhaps none was more influential or famous than Rabbi Akiva. "

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" 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. "

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" Adopting this lifestyle and opting to exercise has helped me a lot in life. "

" There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous. "

" 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. "

" We're teaching young girls that this is what they should be focusing on: rich and famous girls who are rich and famous for nothing. "

" Morocco is completely alive for me because I spent about a third of my life there. The first few times I went back to Casablanca, I walked through the streets and remembered how years earlier I had walked those same streets and prayed that a miracle would happen and I would leave and become 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. "

" The dead play a very prominent part in the experience of the wanderer abroad. The houses in which they were born, the tombs in which they lie, the localities they made famous by their good or evil deeds, and the works their genius left behind them are necessarily the chief shrines of his pilgrimage. "

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" There's a famous artist, Ron English, in New York, that just, or Andy Warhol for that matter, that did pop art that terrorized society. And that's, for the last like 10, 15 years, that's all I wanted to do, is terrorize society and make them look into a mirror and see what the hell we have wrought. "

" He caressed my backside. I had heard that he was famous for his 'admiration' of the ladies, but I didn't expect him to be handling my booty. As handsome as Prince Philip is, I wasn't sure if he was making a pass or just exercising some royal rights to squeeze the foreigners. "

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" 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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" I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous. "

" You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous. "