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'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!
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Ezra Pound

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

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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
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Miles Davis

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A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.
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Marilyn Monroe

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A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.
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Daniel J. Boorstin

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Acquaintance lessens fame.
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Claudius

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After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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Cato The Elder

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All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.
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Raquel Welch

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.
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William Shakespeare

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Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
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Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

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Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
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William Shakespeare

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.
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Henry David Thoreau

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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
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Vicki Baum

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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.
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Virgil

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Fame is a constant effort
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Jules Renard

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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Emily Dickinson

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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
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Francis Bacon

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Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.
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John Milton

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Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.
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Truman Capote

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.
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Arthur Schopenhauer

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Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
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Socrates

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