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" I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great. "
Ray Charles
Great
Never
Famous
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" I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town. "
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" Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve. "
Maureen Dowd
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Beautiful
Famous
" We all have Tumblr, and we all have Instagram and everything. People care so much about it because, now, any random can be famous on the Internet if their world looks good on Tumblr. And so everyone at high school strives for this kind of aesthetic correctness. "
Lorde
School
World
Famous
" I got the famous Oprah hug! "
Taylor Lautner
Famous
Got
Hug
" I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a movie star. Her best-known role was in 'Singin' In The Rain.' "
Carrie Fisher
Rain
Famous
Father
" I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It was occupied territory I was entering. "
John le Carre
Know
Not Knowing
Scared
" On an emotional level, success in America would be terrible for me; it would be insane. I really, seriously, never want to be famous here. "
Robbie Williams
Famous
Seriously
Me
" I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous. "
Noomi Rapace
Celebrity
See
Famous
" Being rich and famous has never been my goal at all. I love to act and I want to be able to do really great parts. "
Jenn Proske
Famous
Rich
Great
" One of the top comments I get from people is, 'Oh my God, you're like a regular person!' That's kind of a bizarre thing to live with. I know a lot of famous people, and their lives may not be regular, but they are regular people. "
Kevin Bacon
Live
Know
You
" I don't like a girl on social media, when you have an open inbox, answering questions from dudes left and right every day. What's the point? It's like having your number all out. Everybody think they're famous when they get 100,000 followers on Instagram and 5,000 on Twitter. "
Meek Mill
Day
Famous
Social Media
" If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after. "
Moon Unit Zappa
Up
Right
More
" I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free. "
Martin Yan
More
Yourself
Free
" The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness. "
Daniel J. Boorstin
Famous
Person
Celebrity
" It's nice to have famous people love you. "
Millie Bobby Brown
Nice
People
Famous
" And even though I'm famous, I still go through things that young people go through. "
Khalid
People
Even
Famous
" When people say they prefer organic food, what they often seem to mean is they don't want their food tainted with pesticides and their meat shot full of hormones or antibiotics. Many object to the way a few companies - Monsanto is the most famous of them - control so many of the seeds we grow. "
Michael Specter
Famous
Food
People
" I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that. "
Jerry Spinelli
Famous
Battle
War
" There's the famous quote that if you want to understand how animals live, you don't go to the zoo, you go to the jungle. The Future Lab has really pioneered that within Lego, and it hasn't been a theoretical exercise. It's been a real design-thinking approach to innovation, which we've learned an awful lot from. "
Jorgen Vig Knudstorp
Live
You
Famous
" What I've said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar. "
Seamus Heaney
Famous
Only
Said
" Celebrities have more influence to be able to reach out to people, but people are becoming famous on Facebook and social media every day. "
Shemar Moore
People
Social Media
Famous
" The good thing about L.A. is that there's always someone more famous 100 yards away from me. "
Seth Rogen
Good
More
Someone
" My goal was never to be famous, but to be a consistently working actor. "
Erin Cummings
Actor
Famous
Goal
" In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous. "
Patrick Dempsey
Me
Los Angeles
Myself
" It wasn't until after I became famous that people noticed I played in the NFL. I kind of snuck in! "
Terry Crews
People
Kind
After
" There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything. "
Ricky Gervais
People
School
Professional
" Even as a kid, I never wanted to be famous; I wanted to be good. "
Neil Peart
Good
Even
Wanted
" The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids. "
Danielle Steel
California
Children
Judge
" The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to discover. You know, like maybe the character actors who are just coming into their own and you're realizing how great they are. "
Terry Gross
Know
Character
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