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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet. (Quote by - Billy Connolly )

We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about. (Quote by - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)

Acquaintance lessens fame. (Quote by - Claudius)

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)

I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I'm still very troubled by the fact that I'm in the hall and my dad isn't. (Quote by - Debby Boone)

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome. (Quote by - Jean Jacques Rousseau)

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago. (Quote by - Billy Eckstine)

The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. (Quote by - Andy Warhol)

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly. (Quote by - Michel Eyquem De Montaigne)

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar. (Quote by - Chuang-tzu)

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful. (Quote by - Gene Tierney)

Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn! (Quote by - Ezra Pound)

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live. (Quote by - Marilyn Monroe)

Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does. (Quote by - Waylon Jennings)

I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction. (Quote by - Cate Blanchett)

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. (Quote by - Fred A. Allen)

It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it. (Quote by - Jane Badler)

Passion is the thing that sustains you in acting. If you're doing it for fame and money, don't even bother because it will never happen. The last thing I ever expected was to be paid for this. (Quote by - Scott Patterson)

But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. (Quote by - Sir Thomas Browne)

Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt, yet start at shame. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

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