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"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else."
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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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"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 usually comes to those who are thinking about something else."
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"She was one of those people who are famous beyond their actual achievement."
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"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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"Heroes don't have friends, they have fans."
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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
God
"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
Wisdom
"Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other."
Thought
"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else."
Fame
"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."
Money
"To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences."
Creativity
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
Man
"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth."
Work
"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."
Friendship
"Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children."
Truth
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