"A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services."

Fame, Celebrity, Name, Worth

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"People keep telling me that I'm a legend in Merthyr and a legend in many other places. Here's my understanding on that, what's a legend? I don't really know what a legend is, I don't even know the word. I'm not a King Arthur reincarnate either. I might be one of the Round Table, but I'm not King Arthur."

Stephen Richards, British Author

Fame, Legend, Meaning, Identity

"A model's opinion seldom matters. The only time that he is required to open his mouth is when he is required to smile at the camera."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Fame, Opinion, Superficiality, Appearance, Expression

"Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

Fame, Writer

"And it's great to have all these readers and fans who, for the most part, are very nice people, saying they love the books and the TV show. But there are so many of them and it just doesn't end. Oh, and 'selfies'! If I could clap my hands and burn out every camera phone in the world, I swear I'd do it!"

George R. R. Martin, American Author

Fame, Fans, Social, Media

"If you see my fifteen minutes of fame let me know I've been searching for it for years."

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

Fame, Time, Recognition, Hope

"Don't rush to rise to fame, lest you will be lashed in shame."

Bernard Kelvin Clive, Ghanaian Author

Fame, Shame, Success, Humility

"Too much fame, money or alcohol can make you stupid."

Jeffrey Fry, American Author

Fame, Excess, Money, Alcohol

"I awoke one morning and found myself famous."

Lord Byron, British Poet

Fame, Recognition, Achievement, Success

"Fame is like drifting clouds, transient and ephemeral. Memory is forever."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Fame, Transience, Ephemeral, Memory

"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."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Fame, Fire, May, Will

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"The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life."

Life

"The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event."

Crime

"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing.""

Experience

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge."

Knowledge

"We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place."

Reality

"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know."

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"A model's opinion seldom matters. The only time that he is required to open his mouth is when he is required to smile at the camera."

"Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud."

"If you see my fifteen minutes of fame let me know I've been searching for it for years."

"Don't rush to rise to fame, lest you will be lashed in shame."

"Too much fame, money or alcohol can make you stupid."

"I awoke one morning and found myself famous."

"Fame is like drifting clouds, transient and ephemeral. Memory is forever."

"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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"The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life."

"Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities."

"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be."

"As you make your bed, so you must lie in it."

"The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness."

"The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event."

"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing.""

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge."

"We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place."

"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know."