#fame

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them. ↗

— Jean Genet

#extent #fame #heroes #little #owes

Fame is a very strange animal. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#fame #strange #very

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#colleagues #culture #even #fame #fulfilled

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name! ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

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I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#fame #feel #feel good #good #i

I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload a video clip, instead of just a moment of fame for your pseudonym, you'll get 50 bucks. The first time that happens, you'll realise that you're a full-class citizen. You have the potential to make money from the system. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#bucks #citizen #clip #comment #fame

It's funny - nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don't have the money to hide from it. ↗

— Matt LeBlanc

#fame #famous #funny #get #hide

You always question people's intentions. That may be a combination of having money, having fame, and being a little older. ↗

— Matt LeBlanc

#being #combination #fame #having #intentions

George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy. ↗

— Alvin Lee

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Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me. ↗

— Annie Lennox

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