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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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"Gain fame, and the paparazzi or media waits and watches for them to slip, just to shame their name."
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"I don't think about being famous, really. Being an author, I don't generally get stopped as I walk down the street. It's not like being a movie star."
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"Fame is neither something to value nor to view as a threat."
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"Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame."
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"A celebrity starts being a cele-crazy when he's seen often, he's just like the ordinary man in the streets. Without much ado to shout his name, i go my way."
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"I think that fame removes true happiness. Because when you are famous, people know you for who they think you are and when you are happy, it's because people have met you and see you for who you really are. Of course, if you are not a great person, it's better to be famous. But if you have greatness, it's better to not be famous."
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"Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known."
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"Regis and I were inducted into the original Bronx Walk of Fame."
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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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"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else."
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"The incentive to ambition is the love of power."
Love
"I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about."
Friendship
"Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming."
Friendship
"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
People
"Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse."
Death
"I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home."
Home
"Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted."
Life
"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."
Friendship
"The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases."
Soul
"People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel."
Work
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