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Hip-hop belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's one of the most radical, revolutionary and reactionary music there is.
In 1970, television ate my family. The Andy Warhol prophecy of 15 minutes of fame for any and everyone blew up on our doorstep.
Music has given me great solace in my times of hardship. It has also brought me fame and wealth, and I owe everything to music.
Why would you want to work for a living if you could just joke around? Being a celebrity expands your commercial possibilities.
I would think if someone connected to steroids made the Hall of Fame, that would enhance my chances of making the Hall of Fame.
A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup.
Around the mighty master came The marvels which his pencil wrought, Those miracles of power whose fame Is wide as human thought.
I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.
Fame is like getting across the street. It's like, if there's nothing to be across the street for, it's a pointless destination.
To tell the truth, I don't feel the pressure of fame. I don't have the problem of being a celebrity in terms of recognizability.
I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
There are a lot of things about fame that are not conducive to being curious. It's been important for me to cloister myself off.
The main downside was that it [fame] happened so quickly and I didn't have time to establish what kind of person I wanted to be.
I don't know if I was ever looking for this kind of success- it came along as a by-product of concentrating on what I was doing.
The thing about Bollywood is that you can't just quit it even if you have little fame. You have to stick around and keep trying.
At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing.
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
Fame isn't happiness, but success and being respected in your craft is worth fighting for. You've got to work hard to be noticed.
People who are seriously damaged by sudden fame and notoriety have, in my experience, very low esteem at the root of their being.
I have fame, and I'm living this life, but sometimes I forget, and I go out to dinner or walk to the movies like nothing's wrong.
I know that everybody is so obsessed with this idea of fame, and they think that I'm obsessed. In all honesty, I'm just doing me.
My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor, and if fame follows suit, that's fine.
Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.
Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.
If you are someone, you know, with fame, whatever amount, it's good to be married to someone who's not impressed with that at all.
Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.
Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.
Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.
There are still recording artists out there doing things for the right reason, but a lot of people seem to be just driven by 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.
There is much to life than fame and fortune. If you are a part of the entertainment industry, please remember it is all temporary.
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.
There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
Status doesn't matter; fame doesn't matter. You have to be really, really grounded in who you are and feel good as a person inside.
My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.
It's a great honor to me to be named to the Hall of Fame. It's very hard for me to even imagine that I would ever be elected to it.
Don't seek to be a person of fame, for even villains can be famous. Instead, be a person of value. Fame fades but value is honored.
Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.
A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.
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.
I was suited for fame, and I mean that in the most non-egocentric way. I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.
The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.
I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't something that I find comfortable.
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
The effects of fame on the not-famous people who are close to a celebrity - this is definitely a topic that continues to interest me.
Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.
The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.
One major should not get you into the Hall of Fame - maybe one major and 40 wins. I'm not gonna pick a guy with one major and 11 wins.
He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.
Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.