I think the people who become the most famous aren't necessarily these genetic products of the weird American beauty ideal. I mean,… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
The media propagates a message that corporations want, and there’s a belittling and mocking of the poor and celebration of wealth. A… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Work unto death! I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life comes and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Stars — spectacular representations of living human beings — project this general banality into images of permitted roles. As specialists of apparent… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
I hoped doing 'Celebrity Big Brother' would reboot my career: if you can't beat them, join them. It's tough because you want… — Les Dennis Copy Share Image
“I'm a talentless but popular young singer and I have the feeling someone is watching me. I use the term loosely because… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
“And yet, it gives Peter nothing. Not now. Not today. Not when he needs... more. More than this well-executed idea. More than… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“We spend too much time keeping up with celebrities. They're living their dreams, what about you? Are you where you want to… — Bianca Frazier Copy Share Image
I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people some help. AIDS, poverty, racism… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
“Admire ability, experience, and knowledge over fame or wealth. Just because someone is a celebrity, it doesn’t make them an authority. Fame… — Loren Weisman Copy Share Image
In general all celebrities, no matter how they became a celebrity, or if they're an actor or singer or a model, whatever… — Rachel Uchitel Copy Share Image
I have made a very rude translation of the Seven against Thebes, and Pindar too I have looked at, and wish he… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had so many outs in my career. I could have said, 'I don't need this. I have money; I have fame;… — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
Its funny because when I did feel like I came out and I just felt like I was being truthful to myself,… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
“I would call celebrity worship a new form of religious culture, fans may not even know the fallen celebrit[ies], yet they draw… — J.D. Reed Copy Share Image
What fame does is there is an illusion of familiarity that is cast into the world. So it's about negotiating with that… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
I equate fame towards people who know your work, people who will see your work. But all that stuff, like with the… — Sandra Oh Copy Share Image
What that’s allowed me to do is have a vantage point about my own life that's accessible to people still. I could… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
Maybe I've been a small part of the democratisation of celebrity, because I've been fascinated by it, and when it started to… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I think our culture right now is a culture that's trying to find itself. They're trying to figure out what is it?… — Tim Tebow Copy Share Image
Will you lose everything you've got if you open your own restaurant? Who knows. Will unleashing your secret desire to teach tap… — Jen Sincero Copy Share Image
Talent isn't really enough to make it in any world. If you're trying to be a superstar, or at the highest rate… — D-Pryde Copy Share Image
We are reminded that in the fleeting time we have on this Earth, what matters is not wealth or status or power… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power:… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The most valuable lesson I've ever learned in my life is that life is about family and friends, not about material things… — Vanilla Ice Copy Share Image
If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages,… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan.… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
I really just think it's disgusting when people - to actually say that you want to be famous, it's just gross. There's… — Jon Glaser Copy Share Image
It was the British rockers that saved me. They brought me to a different generation altogether [in the 60th]. The Who and… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
There is no man but for his own interest hath an obligation to be honest. There may be sometimes temptations to be… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
God isn't calling us to a lonely, joyless existence with the promise of a delayed reward. God is calling us to live,… — John Powell Copy Share Image
My life is a series of Hollywood orgies and Kabbalah center brunches with the cast of Friends. At least that's what my… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
We believe in the joy and power of music, and we also see that to make this kind of statement today, you… — Thomas Koner Copy Share Image
The glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any noble deed is never allowed… — Polybius Copy Share Image
Most restaurants fail. The sad ones are stillborn. The mad ones flourish within the bustle and excitement of fame, notoriety, the thrill… — Sam Sifton Copy Share Image
This world loses its appeal when the steps become tottering, when the hearing becomes dim, when the faded eyes cannot see as… — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“People who are seeking to get famous need to ask themselves one question. Do I have depth of character? It doesn't matter… — Robert Black Copy Share Image