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"I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"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 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."

"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!"

"If you see my fifteen minutes of fame let me know I've been searching for it for years."
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"Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions."

"The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test."

"He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent."

"It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new."

"I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear."

"Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust."

"The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant."
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