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It's too bad
I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because
the world could use a few people like that.
-- Alan Alda
1936-, American Actor
How great are
the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
-- Alexander The Great
352-323 BC, Alexander III,
Ancient Macedonian King
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.
-- Fred A. Allen
1894-1957, American Radio
Comic
Fame often
makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
-- W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American
Poet
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Good fame is
like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it;
but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it
again.
-- Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British
Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Fame is like a
river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns
things weighty and solid.
-- Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British
Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Fame always
brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the
North Pole.
-- Vicki Baum
1888-1960, American Writer
Those who have
known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories,
knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be
remembered for remembering someone else.
-- Alan Bennett
1934-, British Playwright
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