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" Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions. "

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" Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else. "

Orson Welles

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" You become world famous, and you sit with kings and queens, and then your first job is just a job. You can't go back to living the way you did before because you've been taken out of one setting and shown the other. That becomes a struggle and makes you struggle. "

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

" 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. "

" The rich and famous expect to get a lot for their story, whether they are writing it themselves or not. It's not that they need the money, of course; it's a question of ego, like catching the biggest fish. "

" After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school. "

" Sometimes I dream to be alone and that nobody would talk to me. But I understand that football is really important and that everybody watches it. When you're famous, you have to do photos or autographs, especially for the kids. "

" I'm not trying to be famous, I'm not trying to be the next whatever. I'm just trying to be someone that contributes positivity with my talent. "

Letitia Wright

" I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world. "

" When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called 'The Childhood of Famous Americans.' In it, historical figures like Clara Barton, Nancy Hanks, Elias Howe, Patrick Henry, and dozens more came to life for me as children. "

" I think Princess Diana probably had the most famous haircut, or Farrah Fawcett or Jennifer Aniston. "

" They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. "

" Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people; it doesn't sound good to me. If you're making music in order to become famous or loved by the masses... that's not what I'm about. When somebody's making music for the wrong reasons, I hear it right away. "

" Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us. "

" 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. "

" My name is not big enough for people to go, 'Let me throw money at you because you're so famous!' "

" In a lot of aspects it's cooler that we don't have a lot of really overly famous people in the band. "

" I love being famous - it's phenomenal. "

" I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated. "

" If you're famous, I don't - for the life of me - I don't understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter. "

George Clooney

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" I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents. "

" Funny thing, as you become famous, people write less nice things about you. "

" When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it! "

" Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability. "

" I want to be famous everywhere. "

" I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher. "

Moses Mendelssohn

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Famous

" To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty. "

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

" I do know something about the news world. I was sitting on the floors of newsrooms since I was seven years old, and I've been around them my whole life. I understand that someone looks at a story with famous people in it, and you want to put it out. "

" Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence. "