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Daniel J. Boorstin

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

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A.E. Samaan

"Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead."

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A.E. Samaan

"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."

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A.E. Samaan

"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."

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"Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said."

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A.E. Samaan

"Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name's chances of being remembered until Jesus comes back, since their heart cannot do what they consciously or unconsciously lust for, that is to say, for it to beat until Jesus returns."

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A.E. Samaan

"When you're being celebrated and flying high, don't allow fanatics (fans) to elevate you so far out that you forget whose sky it is."

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"Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done."

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A.E. Samaan

"Fame is a bee.It has a song -It has a sting -Ah, too, it has a wing."

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A.E. Samaan

"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."

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"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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"Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion."
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"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know."
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"I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."
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"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."
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"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.""
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"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."
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"A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services."
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"Nothing is really real unless it happens on television."
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"Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed."
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