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" What is it we want out of travel? Is it to take snapshots of ourselves in front of famous monuments, surrounded by other tourists? To eat unfamiliar food chosen from unintelligible menus? To earn frequent-flier miles? No. It's to glimpse what life is like somewhere else. "

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" Fame changes everything. When you're well-known, you're expected to be different. Some people assume you must have a yacht and four homes. Or that you're famous because you are 'A Decent Man'. "

Michael Palin

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Be Different

Famous

" That's what we were exploring on 'Larry Sanders' - the human qualities that have brought us to where we are now in the world: the addiction to needing more and wanting more and talking more. We were examining the labels put on success - is it successful to be on TV every day, to be famous, to have a paycheck? "

" 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. "

" Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy. "

Bennett Cerf

Who

Crazy

" I worked at a hot dog place, a bagel place, the Jersey Store and the hottest fashion joint around. I was getting too famous to work there anymore. I was almost showing up as a joke. I made $2,000 on my show the previous night and I'm going to go shopping during my five-hour shift. "

" I've met other famous people, and what blows my mind is that when they get five minutes off, they're partying with other famous people. I wanna see my boys at home. "

" I want to get so famous that I don't have to wake up in the morning. It'll probably never happen. "

" People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood. "

" The most famous secret base, I guess, would be Area 51, which a lot of people have heard of as a kind of mythical place. Well, it's a real place. "

" Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous. "

" Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Man

Famous

" One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes from some of the most famous ballrooms throughout the country. "

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

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

" It's really easy to avoid the tabloids. You just live your life and don't hang out with famous people who are in the tabloids. Don't do anything controversial and be a normal person. Have friends. And get a job and keep working. "

" I don't think it's anything you ever get used to... for many years, I could never sort of put my name in the same sort of category as the word 'famous' or anything like that. And I just found it very uncomfortable... if you get used to it, then something must be wrong. "

" The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless. "

Morrissey

" Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness. "

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

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

" I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn't know why I would struggle to be that kind of person. "

" I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded. "

" As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than the famous figures we are used to celebrating, or demonizing, in our histories. "

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

" Indian paper is famous, Egyptian papyrus, Chinese paper... every country has used this natural material. But the problem is it's going to run out because it's very difficult work. "

" I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.' "

" You just feel like you're doing a job that you want to be doing, and then one day, somebody asks you a question like that: 'What's it like to be famous?' It doesn't really mean anything. The only difference is some people stop you and ask you for photographs. "

" 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. "

" It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. "

" As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life. "