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Famous Quotes


"The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships."


"The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did."


"I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano."


"Your face is your calling card, but you're not so famous that you can't go out."


"I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave."


"Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we're famous all over the world."


"None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone."


"I mean he's a very famous director... they're not going to put their... and he's very tough, he doesn't like interference at all, so he kept them at bay."


"A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra."


"I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things."


"Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them."


"Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool."


"But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom."


"I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world."


"Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns."


"I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian blew him off. I'll never forget the look on the young boy's face. He was devastated."


"Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He allegedly was seen transporting two 16 year olds across state line for immoral porpoises."


"After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school."


"He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together."


"Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys."


"I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous."


"A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous."


"I still forgive him, because by doing what he did, he made it famous."


"Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?"


"I'm not unknown, yet I'm not super famous where I can't go anywhere."


"You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!"
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