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

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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. "

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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. "

" Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries. "

Stephen Hawking

" I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives. "

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" I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me. "

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Not Good Enough

" The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. "