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" In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game. "
Bobby Thomson
Run
Famous
Game
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" Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it'll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off. "
Kevin Hart
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Work
End
" I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India. "
Freida Pinto
Done
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Saying
" When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.' "
Francis Ford Coppola
Graduation
You
Now
" My father always had people around the house who were famous psychics. "
Natalie Massenet
People
House
Father
" I'd get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little 'wood shots' down either line. They would be pop flies in any other park. But, goodness me, they didn't count the number of long outs! "
Bobby Thomson
Goodness
Know
Long
" I didn't start out to become famous, so when it disappeared, I thought, well, that happens sometimes. "
Leon Russell
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Start
Thought
" When I started on MySpace, people wanted to support me, but once I rose to fame with the MTV show, they felt like I had abandoned them for some reason, that I was too famous to talk to them anymore. "
Tila Tequila
Famous
Me
Rose
" 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. "
Matthew McConaughey
Big
Weekend
Time
" The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don't tell me jokes - I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provoke to get a reaction. "
Robin Williams
People
Me
Bad
" I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one. "
Sally Kirkland
Famous
Lived
Decision
" The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words. "
Robert South
Men
Words
Famous
" If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after. "
Moon Unit Zappa
Up
Right
More
" The more they applaud, the bigger your salary will be. "
Anna Held
Your
Bigger
More
" Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work. "
Anne Hathaway
Good Work
Famous
Want
" There are a lot of thought leaders who don't want to see their students. We don't want to hire them. If students are allured to come to the school because of famous faculties, and if they never see them, that leaves very bad taste. "
John Quelch
Bad
School
See
" I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me. "
Cary Grant
Somebody
Me
Person
" I'm not as famous as Stephen Hawking, but certainly in the U.S., I have a very high profile for a scientist. It is an awesome responsibility, one that I don't shoulder lightly. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Famous
Responsibility
High
" I've interviewed presidents and royalty, rock stars and movie stars, famous generals and captains of industry; I've had front row seats at Super Bowls, World Series, and Olympic Games; my books have been on best-seller lists, and my marriage is a long-running success. "
Tom Brokaw
Stars
Famous
Marriage
" It has always been important to me to be a creative artist, not to be a star, not to be rich, not to be famous. "
Donna McKechnie
Rich
Me
Star
" No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined. "
Wesley Snipes
Loss
Famous
Train
" It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood? "
Eddie Van Halen
Famous
Musicians
Music
" Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous. "
Chris Evert
Personality
Dangerous
Famous
" I love singing - singing is what I'm famous for doing. Now it's turned into things I am famous for doing - like having rows with my mum or about my boyfriend, so it does get irritating. "
Charlotte Church
Famous
Now
Singing
" Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul. "
Annette Bening
Exploring
Movies
Soul
" I've got a nice collection of paintings - a Basquiat, a black-and-white Warhol that's like a Rorschach test, and I commissioned Takashi Murakami to do a ten-foot joint for me. It's almost like the explosion in Hiroshima with his famous skeleton head. There's a wall above my fireplace reserved for it. "
Jay-Z
Famous
Black-And-White
Test
" It was never about winning medals or being famous. "
Nancy Kerrigan
Never
Medals
Famous
" Some people collect stamps, other people like to be famous. I don't have that hobby. "
Manoj Bhargava
People
Like
Hobby
" Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion. "
Juliette Binoche
Famous
You
Me
" The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing. "
Leigh Hunt
Nothing
Same
People
" Of all the rabbinic sages of antiquity, perhaps none was more influential or famous than Rabbi Akiva. "
Meir Soloveichik
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