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"The present condition of fame is merely fashion."
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"Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again."
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Personal Development
"Too much fame, money or alcohol can make you stupid."
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Personal Development
"I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respected by people I respect. And I wanted to be rich. It's best to get rich, then you can do what you want."
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Personal Development
"Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row."
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Personal Development
"All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view."
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Personal Development
"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else."
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Personal Development
"When little old ladies recognize a guy who was Mr. Olympia, that's saying something. That means I've been able to cross lines as far as marketability is concerned."
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"Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood."
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Personal Development
"Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame."
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"The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I."
Life
"Better to be dirty than dead."
Life
"You play the game to the end. That's how it works, play to the end."
Success
"The rest of it - and perhaps the best of it - is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will."
Hope
"Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it."
Creativity
"It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered."
War
"In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess."
Fear
"If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered."
Fear
"Pack up all my care and woe, blackbird, bye-bye."
Life
"Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present."
Truth
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