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Fame Quotes
On wanting recognition, then reckoning with what it takes.
These quotes trace fame from ambition to unease — wanting it but dreading a sudden rise, calling today's fixation on fame unsettling, and naming friendships and family ties among its real costs. See Famous quotes for more.
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Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
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Fame gives you a high.
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Al Kaline bought a tee and a ball and swung at it all winter. Look where it got him: the Hall of Fame.
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I think fame is really dangerous and... I don't really like to get too involved in it all.
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Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.
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I've had my taste of intense fame, and I've got it out of my system. Now I'm free to choose parts which fulfil me in different ways.
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What's the reason I'm playing basketball? I do it because I love it, I do it because of my family, and that's it. I don't do it because of the money. I don't do it because of the fame. I just do it because I love it, and I do it for my family because my family enjoys it.
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Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of the flood of the Renaissance in Western Europe. He was the child of that great movement, and marks its height as it penetrated the North with civilization.
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