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" I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name. "

Emily Dickinson

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

" There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that lie in the intersection of the Venn diagram of 'is a good idea' and 'looks like a bad idea.' So you want most people to think it's a bad idea and thus not compete with you until you get giant. But for it to secretly be good. "

" I'm astonished by my success. I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous. "

" It's nice to have famous people love you. "

Millie Bobby Brown

" You can't copyright a urinal. But you could probably copyright a sculpture of a urinal. And like Duchamp's famous work, code is both, at the same time. "

" Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do. "

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

Rachel Griffiths

" 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. "

" I've played with some very famous bandits in my time on the celebrity golf circuit. "

" My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck. "

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

" If anyone besides famous people knew what it was like to be a famous person, they would never want to be famous. "

" Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent. "

" When famous people come up to you it's a bit weird, but it's an honour, really, when they recognise you and want to chat to you for a bit. "

" I don't see myself as famous at all so I'm continuing my life as normal. "

" I've been famous my entire life; I don't know any other way. "

" A country that cannot feed itself cannot have self-pride, and in the mid-'60s 20 percent of all the wheat produced in America came into India. We were agriculturally a basket case. And 15 years later, 20 years later, we have become an agricultural power. This is the famous Green Revolution. "

" Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life. "

Michael Morpurgo

" I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they're really boring to read. "

" I want to become more famous, even more famous. "

" 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

" Here at Z100, we're kind of famous for breaking new artists and watching their careers bloom. "

" There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else. "

" My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated. "

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

" I wanted to sing when I was little. That's what I liked doing. It didn't occur to me that you became famous or anything like that. "

" I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous. "

" Who you are as a person will only be amplified once you are 'famous,' so if you had a good heart, then I would imagine you'll have the same good heart but the means to do even more with it. "

" 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. "

Debbie Reynolds

" Forever is composed of nows. "

Emily Dickinson

" I once wrote that Lord Moran, Churchill's doctor, had doctored his diaries as well as his famous patient. That was true but unfair. Although their authenticity as contemporary, daily accounts is often questionable, the observations are quite wonderful. "