Famous Quotes

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I think it's real easy to be famous these days; it's not real easy to sustain success. — Jerry Jeff Walker
Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers. — Justin Theroux
I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where your dreams will… — Jarvis Cocker
We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which he is known… — Daniel Tammet
He's going to be what?! Oh for God's sake. Sir David Beckham? You're having a laugh. He's just a good footballer with a famous bird. — Ian Holloway
People say that Nagasaki is famous for persecution and devastation, for it has known much in it's history. But Nagasaki is not the only place… — Takashi Nagai
If you’ve ever wondered why some writers who, in your humble opinion, don’t write as well as you do yet are rich and famous while… — Larry Brooks
I've wanted to perform my entire life. I found a paper I wrote in kindergarten class about what I wanted to be when I grew… — Heather Morris
It's been real weird. It wasn't how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly pertaining to the show. It never crossed my mind… — Jack Osbourne
I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go… — Ian Hart
I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence. — Emir Kusturica
I was brought up on the romance of American achievement. No matter where you start, if you work hard and if you think positively and… — Norman Vincent Peale
... I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very busy and so refused flatly… — Leonhard Euler
I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on Big Brother. — Sam Worthington
It's important for celebrities, environmentalists and world leaders to continue to increase education and eco-awareness through the forums provided to them naturally by virtue of… — Anne Frank
But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom. — Rachel Griffiths
I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived… — Van Morrison
I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous. — Ann Wilson
When I started on MySpace, people wanted to support me, but once I rose to fame with the MTV show, they felt like I had… — Tila Tequila
I was worried that all the corners of the earth had been explored, all the great battles fought. The famous people on TV were athletes… — Eric Greitens
On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires… — Eberhard Weber
The spectacle of advertising creates images of false beauty so suave and so impossible to attain that you will hurt inside and never even know… — Robert Montgomery
I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? — Colin Hay
The Bumpuses were so low down on the evolutionary totem pole that they weren't even included in Darwin's famous family tree. They had inbred and… — Jean Shepherd
God has taken four guys that look like five miles of muddy road and made them famous in the TV world. — Si Robertson

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