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" 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. "

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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. "

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" NPR allowed me to treat sports seriously, as another branch on the tree of culture. "

" Quickness and momentum. You take the whole last generation of sports, listening to them, even reading about them, watching the games, analyzing them, arguing about them, instant-replaying them, second-guessing them, and all you'll distill from them is quickness and momentum. "

" I'm famous for being nicer to my fans than anyone on the face of the Earth because I figure a) They pay my salary, and b) It's probably like a big moment in your life to meet somebody so I would say, just come on up. "

" For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it. "

Michelle Pfeiffer

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" I don't like the idea of famous people. "

Kristin Hersh

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People

" Football teams represent cities and colleges and schools. The people have built great stadiums, and the game is culturally intertwined with our calendar. We don't go back to college for the college. We go back for a football game, and, yes, we even call that 'homecoming.' "

" The famous convention of 1787 met in Philadelphia to define the additional powers needed to enable Congress to do its job effectively. Instead, the convention proposed a brand new national government. "

" 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. "

" That's the greatest compliment I can get: when somebody from Key West says, 'Hey, Bubba.' That means I'm in! "

" Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous. "

Lady Gaga

Studio

Going

" I want to be so famous that I'm the pop-culture reference that people would make to try and be racist to me. So I'd be walking down the street, and someone would be, like, 'Hey, look at this Kumail Nanjiani.' "

Kumail Nanjiani

People

Walking

" For me a Writing Day was an occasion for self-reproach and panic, a time to lament the passing of the years, stare out of windows and remember that even those famous late starters Joseph Conrad and George Eliot had started by the age I was now. "

Howard Jacobson

Writing

Famous

" I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one. "

" 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

Bad

" The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show. "

" I see a lot of young kids hit me on Twitter all the time, like, 'I want to be famous! Listen to my mixtape! I wish I could be like you!' But a lot comes with it. It's not easy. "

Amber Rose

Easy

Famous

" I've always liked women. But I don't want somebody who likes me because I'm famous. I like girls who are intelligent and who are kind of quiet like me. "

Edward Furlong

Quiet

Women

" 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. "

" I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous. "

" To compare writing an article for 'Sports Illustrated' to doing a piece for 'Real Sports', the article, it was all me. You know, I'm out there by myself with my pad and pencil. 'Real Sports,' I've got a producer, an assistant producer, and cameramen. It's an individual game versus a team game. "

Frank Deford

Myself

Game

" The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve. "

" Barack Obama hopes his famous health care victory will mark him as a transformative president. History, however, may judge it to have been his missed opportunity to be one. "

" In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. "

" Everybody think they're famous when they get 100,000 followers on Instagram and 5,000 on Twitter. "

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

" When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football. "

" A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. "

Lord Byron

Know

Known

" I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal. "

" A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in. "