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I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame. — Brenda Lee

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity. — Antoine Rivarol

Most people don't understand performers are really sheltered and protected so much sometimes that they don't get a chance to live their lives. — Diana Ross

I don't go to premieres. I attend film openings I'm in, and that's about it. Fame and celebrity doesn't matter to me. The longevity of my career does. — Eva Mendes

Rosie is a Hall of Fame player, and I wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame if it weren't for him. — Frank Gifford

Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs. — Mario Cuomo

Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame. — Igor Stravinsky

I have to look over my shoulder all the time, be really vigilant because at any moment, someone could be filming me or recording what I'm saying. — Robert Pattinson

You can be a master
Don't wait for luck
Dedicate yourself and you gon' find yourself
Standing in the hall of fame — The Script

Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference. — Georgie Fame

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press. — Gene Hackman

Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled. — Livy

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. — William Hazlitt

Money and fame? I never had it, don't really know if I want it. — Kevin Harvick

I would like to be famous but unknown. — Edgar Degas

Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep. — Richard Peck

The light of the dawn is not so sweet as the first glimpses of fame. — Luc De Clapiers

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death. — David Nicholls

I think sometimes you just lose your focus, and I think that's easy to do when you start getting more fame, more money, more power. — Joel Osteen

I have enemies I've never met - that's fame. — Tallulah Bankhead

We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity. — Brigham Young

Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Unhappy is he whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. Lucius Accius, Telephus — Robert Galbraith

Take this wealth and this fame, always stay humble, keep your family close, and do ridiculously crazy things. — Rob Dyrdek

In the inverted food chain of fame, it was the big beasts who were stalked and hunted — Robert Galbraith

I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame. — Vera Farmiga

There's no way my love for fame and her love for puppies will ever work out successfully. — Spencer Pratt

Most of the people who are given these Rock'n'roll Hall of Fame things sell millions of records, so it's kind of like a trophy for them. — Tommy Ramone

If you don't have shadows, you're not in the light. — Lady Gaga

He (Gaylord Perry) should be in the Hall of Fame with a tube of KY jelly attached to his plaque. — Gene Mauch

Till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fame won't make you feel any better about yourself. — Neil Strauss

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Today, I am here, tomorrow someone else will be here. Fame and glamour are for a few days, so no one should be over-proud of it. — Katrina Kaif

Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature. — Gary Hamel

That's what mild television fame is like: it's like walking through the world with your fly down. — Dave Holmes

It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes. — David Cassidy

I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame. — Curt Flood

I love being a star more than life itself. — Janis Joplin

It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill. — Kelsey Grammer

Fame is like dust in a gusty wind. You never know in which way it is blowing. If you ever face the gust of the wind, don't get carried away. — Olarewaju Oladipo

Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind. — Bruce Sutter

I honestly don't think I sought fame. It wasn't something I courted or wanted, particularly. — Kevin Whately

At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth. — Leon Askin

With the mega-fame came the mega-downfall - you know, with the press and everything - and at a young age, it was very stressful to me. — Vanilla Ice

I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants. — David Bowie

I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing. — Steve Perry

Fame, for example, consists of the opinions of others and requires that we must live our life as others wish. — Irvin D. Yalom

Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers end. — Robert A. Burton

When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does. — Marilyn Monroe

That what most people desire more than anything, more than money or fame or stuff, is someone to complain to for thirty minutes a day.* — Mimi Strong

I watched 'Fame,' and I just love the choreography. It just gives me a place to be in another zone. — John Darnielle

Until we know who we are and why we are here, no amount of success, fame, money, or pleasure will provide much satisfaction. — James C. Dobson

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes! — William Hazlitt

Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable. — C. JoyBell C.

I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience. — Sophia Bush

Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too. — Danica Patrick

Some people chase money. Some people chase fame. Some chase greatness - and that's what I'm trying to do. — J. J. Watt

The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others. — Benjamin Disraeli

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live. — Bayard Taylor

All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good. — Jamie Lee Curtis

God is freedom, God is truth
God is power and God is proof
God is fashion, God is fame
God gives meaning, God gives pain — Steven Wilson

That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user! — Daniel Clowes

Sun glasses are the unofficial celebrities' uniform. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It's rare that anybody gets in the Hall of Fame, and to be nominated is good enough for me. — Robin Zander

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame. — James Russell Lowell

I never set out to achieve anything, certainly not fame like this,I still have to deal with how to actually make my life work. — Robert Pattinson

I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness. — Mary McCarthy

I've had my taste of intense fame, and I've got it out of my system. Now I'm free to choose parts which fulfil me in different ways. — Gina Bellman

I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention. — Sade Adu

How come it rains every Hall of Fame weekend? They need to move it to a different weekend. — Yogi Berra

You have money, fame, youth, beauty, talent. That's a good start ... for feeling good. — Leonard Cohen

If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing. — Paul Mooney

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave — Charles Caleb Colton

Men of great ambition have sought happiness . . . and have found fame. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I've had the fame and the joy of getting laughter - those are gifts. — Mary Tyler Moore

Fame freaks me out. Do you just wake up different? I don't know how to scale it back if it gets too crazy. — Kacey Musgraves

I knew that I wasn't a first-ballot Hall-of-Fame inductee. — Bert Blyleven

Success, fame, and fortune, they're all illusions. All there is that is real is the friendship that two can share. — Michael James Jackson

That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you. — Lady Gaga

Even at the height of my fame, 50 per cent of the people who saw me wanted a fight; it's the downside of being a star player. — George Best

The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame. — Franz Grillparzer

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service. — Martin Luther King Jr.

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion. — Marcus Aurelius

Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more. — Kirk Douglas

For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches. — Horace

Fame is vanity's bait. — Toba Beta

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar. — Zhuangzi

Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential — Gordon Brown

The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature. — Jerry Rubin

I'll take anyway to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy, I'll go in as a batboy. — Phil Rizzuto

It's relatively easy to act nice and normal in front of a crowd, or in public. The tricky part is doing it in private. — Robert Black

My success is not about the wealth and fame. I am most concerned with my relationship to God, which is the most important. — Manny Pacquiao

Fame was like a drug. But what was even more like a drug were the drugs. — Homer

Integrity of life is fame's best friend,
Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end. — John Webster

Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient. — Louisa May Alcott

...fame is something other people hand you, while success is what you define for yourself. — Jennifer Mason-Black

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness. — Brigitte Bardot

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me. — Annie Lennox

I'm not interested in fame at all. — Crystal Reed