Famous Quotes

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I'm really not for famous people who design a line for a company, when you know it's not really them creating it but a team… — Bonnie Wright
He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the terrifying certainty that… — Walter Hill
It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean?… — Black Francis
I can deal with it now, but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It's a tough age, period. — Bill Skarsgard
What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So… — Narada Michael Walden
It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure. — James Kern Feibleman
When you think of famous New Zealanders, there aren't many. — Bret McKenzie
I'm not a famous celebrity of any kind. I'm a guy from Edmonton who's got a great job and I'm loving it. — Nathan Fillion
Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some say, of the… — Joseph Addison
LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents.… — Ambrose Bierce
The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city. — Euripides
By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has… — Pablo Picasso
Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to consider myself an… — Pablo Picasso
The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.… — Pablo Picasso
I didn't feel good about cutting out parts of very famous speeches, ... You think you somehow need all of it or you get none… — Tom Stoppard
Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble. — Fernando Pessoa
I would like to be famous but unknown. — Edgar Degas
Exposure and attention make a work famous - the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves. — Andy Warhol
As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are called great men… — Franz Liszt
To be an artist is not about fame; it's about art, which is this intangible thing that has got to have lots of integrity, whereas… — Damien Hirst
We as Americans are completely obsessed and wrapped up in a lot of the wrong values -- looking good, having cash in the bank, being… — Madonna Ciccone
I knew I would be famous one day. That's because I lived in a very small town and nobody liked doing the same things I… — Alice Munro
The two policies that Ken Clarke is most famous for are his opposition to the Iraq war and being a very defensible and quite courageous… — Vince Cable
I don`t think the Disney Channel gives us enough credit for the age range Lizzie McGuire actually has. College students come up to me, grandparents,… — Hilary Duff
People say we're all identical, but Jennifer Lopez is an American. She's from New York. She doesn't have an accent. Some of these Latin people… — Salma Hayek

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