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" I was famous in our college for calm and impassionate discussion; for one whole summer, I rose at five and went to bed at midnight, that I might have sufficient time for theology and metaphysics. "

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" People like consistency. Whether it's a store or a restaurant, they want to come in and see what you are famous for. "

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" I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models. "

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" Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh. "

" Apart from its famous healing properties, manuka has a strong, woody flavour. "

" I have an innate fear of fame. I've never thought being famous looked like such a good place to be. I love being incognito. "

" The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself. "

William Godwin

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" You don't become a chef to become famous. "

" A just and a brave man acts fearlessly and with explicitness; he does not shun, but court, the scrutiny of mankind; he lives in the face of day, and the whole world confesses the clearness of his spirit and the rectitude of his conduct. "

" Henry Miller is a famous writer whose work has fallen out of fashion, but I strongly recommend that readers who don't know his work pick up a book and experience this writer's zealous, crazy, inventive, funny, sexy, often delirious prose. "

" I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big. "

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

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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" The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men. "

" I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet. "

" My first impression of Beverly Hills was that it had a landscape of small houses built by famous architects, so I didn't want to make a big block or sculpture here; I wanted to make a community rooted to the place. "

" They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage. "

" It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality. "

" I got the famous Oprah hug! "

" I was a guy who wanted to become famous. There was steam coming out of my ears, I wanted to be famous so badly. You want the attention, you want the bucks, and you want the best seat in the restaurant. I didn't think what the repercussions would be. "

" Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. "

" Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous. "

" In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom. "

" I don't see myself as famous; I see myself as a normal person with a job that is not very normal. My work life is very out there and very public. But I do my best to maintain my privacy. "

" I only wanted to be a songwriter. I never wanted to be a singer. And I never wanted to be famous. "

" The year after Russell retired, in the famous seventh game of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden, Willis Reed, the New York Knicks center, limped onto the court against the Los Angeles Lakers, inspiring his team and freezing Chamberlain into a benign perplexity. "

" See, 'A Time to Kill' was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do. "

" I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant. "

" Turing was a quite brilliant mathematician, most famous for his work on breaking the German Enigma codes. It is no exaggeration to say that, without his outstanding contribution, the history of the Second World War could have been very different. "

" I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I'm up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press. "

Eric Clapton

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" What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real. "

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Real

Kind

" I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills. "