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"The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness."
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"A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too."
"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."
"The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth."
"Fame is an epiphany of bubbles that are transient and pugnacious."
"Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity."
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"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."
"I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."
"An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service."
"As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves."
"The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life."
"We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman."
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