Best Notoriety Quotes
58 Notoriety quotes by 57 unique authors
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renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the…
— Ambrose Bierce
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It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
— Louisa May Alcott
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If you get a certain amount of notoriety for doing something, and you can stick to that type of project for the rest of your…
— Clint Eastwood
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Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.
— Bob Dylan
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It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the…
— Confucius
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When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial.
— David Duchovny
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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
— Amelia Earhart
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When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing…
— Bil Keane
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There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy…
— Susan Orlean
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Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We…
— Robert Redford
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I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand.…
— Diana Ross
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Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.
— Donald Rumsfeld
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You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front of them, like…
— Will Self
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Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing had it not been for the sex videos that…
— James Wolcott
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Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be noticed for their vices than not be noticed at all.
— Harry S. Truman
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The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you. I wondered if this was why we tried so hard to…
— Mitch Albom
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Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.
— Neil Gaiman
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Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of which…
— John Abbott
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To whatever degree you have as a celebrity or notoriety, there are people who see you as an opinion leader.
— Eric Balfour
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Not only do I have celebrity, but I have notoriety, which is sometimes more seductive.
— Bess Myerson
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When I first became recognizable from appearing on television, I abused my notoriety as much as I possibly could, at the expense of both my…
— Steve-O
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Stupidity fuses notoriety and celebrity.
— Suzanne Fields
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We are extremely private, and we really got sort of ambushed by the notoriety.
— John Grisham
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You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.
— Oscar De La Hoya
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