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Fame Quotes
"I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half."
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"A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity."
28
"It's been a tremendous ride. My 15 years, my 15 minutes of fame, is up."
28
"Getting buried alive will always be my claim to fame."
28
"I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't something that I find comfortable."
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"I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it."
26
"At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing."
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"I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be."
23
"I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respected by people I respect. And I wanted to be rich. It's best to get rich, then you can do what you want."
23
"Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully."
23
"You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way."
20
"You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were."
20
"It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it."
20
"The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness."
20
"I've done all this stuff because it's fun. It's never been about fame."
17
"Fame is not so impossible for people with charisma, passion and talent. Being famous just means you have fans, and even one or two is enough to make you someone special. Ask a music fan who the best guitarist of all time is, and while one group insists that it was Jimmi Hendrix, another group swears that it was Eddie Van Halen instead. There will never be a time when everyone on this planet agrees on something like that, but luckily that's not important. All that matters is that both sides remain loyal, which they will assuming you continue to be who you are and do your thing. This is all that you need to be immortalized."
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"Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row."
15
"I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer."
15
"In a certain sense, you do write to seduce the world, but when it happens, you begin to feel like a whore. The disparity between your life and your work turns out to be as great as ever. And the people seduced by your work are usually seduced by all the wrong reasons."
15
"It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill."
Fame,
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"Fame is like drifting clouds, transient and ephemeral. Memory is forever."
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"Fame is proof that people are gullible."
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