fame

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6bdd2e8	I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.	facts fame knowing love poverty reality school teach wealth	Neil Gaiman
ab74b3a	"Why are they all staring?" demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students. "Don't let it worry you," said Ron. "It's me. I'm extremely famous."	fame harry-potter humor ron-weasley	J.K. Rowling
669832a	But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.	dumbledore fame funny	J.K. Rowling
bea3405	"A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the very last place you would expect astonishing things to happen. Harry Potter rolled over inside his blankets without waking up. One small hand closed on the letter beside him and he slept on, not knowing he was special, not knowing he was famous, not knowing he would be woken in a few hours' time by Mrs. Dursley's scream as she opened the front door to put out the milk bottles, nor that he would spend the next few weeks being prodded and pinched by his cousin Dudley...He couldn't know that at this very moment, people meeting in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices: "To Harry Potter - the boy who lived!"	fame fate harry-potter innocence	J.K. Rowling
5f8457e	Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.	books fame independent-thought judgment opinions pg-84 reading senator-pococurante taste	Voltaire
8ca38fe	If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.	fame pleasure	Dorothy Parker
ef511be	The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.	fame immortality inspirational	Marcus Tullius Cicero
716f374	An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.	fame humor	Andy Warhol
5349ff1	"Famous Harry Potter," said Malfoy. "Can't even go to a bookshop without making the front page."	fame harry-potter jealousy	J.K. Rowling
c028bc7	Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.	fame goodness honesty honor money riches	Louisa May Alcott
79a6aba	Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable.	fame inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living popularity quotes-for-women womens-inspirational	C. JoyBell C.
ffef2ec	What needs my for his honoured bones, The labor of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?	fame hallowed heir honour labor memory poetry pyramid relics shakespeare william-shakespeare	John Milton
34e1b6b	You haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people.	fame	Jerry Spinelli
2604489	Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme, But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn And broils roots out the work of masonry, Nor mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room Even in the eyes of all posterity That wear this world out to the ending doom. So, till judgement that yourself arise, You in this, and dwell in lovers eyes.	fame memory monuments posterity remembrance sonnet-55	William Shakespeare
5902543	And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile -- except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.	convention fame science-fiction self-referential	Isaac Asimov
04ad97c	It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it's totally obvious to everyone that I did it.	fame humor kaling mindy murder popularity	Mindy Kaling
30ce0e8	True freedom comes from being unknown.	fame freedom society	Ruth Ozeki
8a7ea9a	It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its own achievements. Ruins pose a direct challenge to our concern with power and rank, with bustle and fame. They puncture the inflated folly of our exhaustive and frenetic pursuit of wealth.	fame folly power rank ruins society wealth	Alain de Botton
5fca934	"No, no," said Taran slowly, "It would be folly to think of attacking them." He smiled quickly at Fflewddur. "The bards would sing of us," he admitted, "but we'd be in no position to appreciate it."	fame wise-words	Lloyd Alexander
b97336a	[A] finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more strange.	fame immortality unfinished-works writing	G.K. Chesterton
0548d78	A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.	fame social-criticism society values	Max Frisch
b20838b	"The meaning of life in western secular society is to be successful. So many people are success mad and they are encouraged to reach for something and have so called "worthwhile goals". Money, fame, power, good looks, possessions are the indicators of success and the media and advertising companies exploit this. People are conditioned to believe that they can only feel happy or good about themselves if they have these things. This of course is not true."	companies conditioned conditioning deceit fame goals good happiness indicators is lies life looks meaning media money of possessions power secular society success successful truth western what	Tim Crawshaw
fa5ce04	It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous.	fame humility popularity solitude	Bill Bryson
c76512f	Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.	fame reading writers	Thomas C. Foster
c33222a	You can have all the money in the world, one of the biggest mansions ever built, be one of the most famous people in the world, and still be as unhappy as Mariah Carey was. Money and fame don't make people happy. Only God does. Amen.	fame god joy love mansion mariah-carey money peace popularity success unhappy worldly	Lisa Bedrick
8de9582	Why shouldn't I? I demand silently. Why shouldn't I become a famous writer? Like Norman Mailer. Or Philip Roth. And F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hemmingway and all those other men. Why can't I be like them? I mean, what is the point of becoming a writer if no one reads what you've written? Damn Viktor Greene and The New School. Why do I have to keep proving myself all of the time? Why can't I be like L'il, with everyone praising and encouraging me? Or Rainbow, with her sense of entitlement. I bet Viktor Greene never asked Rainbow why she wanted to be a writer. Or what if-I wince-Viktor Greene is right? I'm not a writer after all.	fame inspirational writing	Candace Bushnell
983b6ca	I earned a mater's degree in journalism and took the first job offered, as a sports writer. Instead of chasing my own fame, I wrote about famous athletes chasing theirs.	fame job journalism life work writer	Mitch Albom
0d99045	I came back [to school] in the fall, as a full-time boarder, with a certain set to my jaw, determined to go it alone. A summer passed in thoughtful isolation, rowing on a mountain lake, diving from a pier, had made me perfectly reckless. I was going to get myself recognized at whatever price. It was in this cold, empty gambler's mood, common to politicians and adolescents, that I surveyed the convent setup. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness.	catholic-school fame gambling	Mary McCarthy
04e3400	You don't live in London. You play London - to win. That's why we're all here. It is a city full of contestants, each chasing one of a million possible prizes: wealth, love, fame. Inspiration.	fame inspirational london love quote wealth	Caitlin Moran
1143b2d	I missed the crowds in those big stadiums, the flashbulbs, the roaring cheers - the majesty of the whole thing. I missed it bitterly. So did my father. We shared a thirst to return; unspoken, undeniable.	fame father-son short-term thirst	Mitch Albom
3fff5bc	"A book is a beautiful, paper mausoleum, or tomb, in which to store ideas... to keep the bones of your thoughts in one place, for all time. I just want to say - "Hello. We can hear you. The words survived."	books fame literature words	Caitlin Moran
f0bf718	We are Henceforth-mongers, trying to make our Henceforth the most enticing. Because the secret of everyone who comes to London - who comes to any big city - is that they came here because they did not feel normal, back at home. The only way they will ever feel normal is if they hijack popular culture with their weirdness... and make the rest of the world suddenly wish to become as weird as them.	city fame inspirational london normal	Caitlin Moran
07ddba8	"A book is a beautiful, paper mausoleum, or tomb, in which to store ideas... to keep the bones of your thoughts in one place, for all time I just want to say - "Hello. We can hear you. The words survived."	books fame literature words	Caitlin Moran
3690fb6	Joan Baez was a personality before she was entirely a person, and, like anyone to whom that happens, she is in a sense the hapless victim of what others have seen in her, written about her, wanted her to be and not to be.	fame	Joan Didion

6bdd2e8

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.

facts fame knowing love poverty reality school teach wealth

Neil Gaiman

ab74b3a

"Why are they all staring?" demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students. "Don't let it worry you," said Ron. "It's me. I'm extremely famous."

fame harry-potter humor ron-weasley

J.K. Rowling

669832a

But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.

dumbledore fame funny

J.K. Rowling

bea3405

"A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the very last place you would expect astonishing things to happen. Harry Potter rolled over inside his blankets without waking up. One small hand closed on the letter beside him and he slept on, not knowing he was special, not knowing he was famous, not knowing he would be woken in a few hours' time by Mrs. Dursley's scream as she opened the front door to put out the milk bottles, nor that he would spend the next few weeks being prodded and pinched by his cousin Dudley...He couldn't know that at this very moment, people meeting in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices: "To Harry Potter - the boy who lived!"

fame fate harry-potter innocence

J.K. Rowling

5f8457e

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

books fame independent-thought judgment opinions pg-84 reading senator-pococurante taste

Voltaire

8ca38fe

If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.

fame pleasure

Dorothy Parker

ef511be

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

fame immortality inspirational

Marcus Tullius Cicero

716f374

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

fame humor

Andy Warhol

5349ff1

"Famous Harry Potter," said Malfoy. "Can't even go to a bookshop without making the front page."

fame harry-potter jealousy

J.K. Rowling

c028bc7

Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.

fame goodness honesty honor money riches

Louisa May Alcott

79a6aba

Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable.

fame inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living popularity quotes-for-women womens-inspirational

C. JoyBell C.

ffef2ec

What needs my for his honoured bones, The labor of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?

fame hallowed heir honour labor memory poetry pyramid relics shakespeare william-shakespeare

John Milton

34e1b6b

You haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people.

fame

Jerry Spinelli

2604489

Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme, But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn And broils roots out the work of masonry, Nor mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room Even in the eyes of all posterity That wear this world out to the ending doom. So, till judgement that yourself arise, You in this, and dwell in lovers eyes.

fame memory monuments posterity remembrance sonnet-55

William Shakespeare

5902543

And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile -- except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.

convention fame science-fiction self-referential

Isaac Asimov

04ad97c

It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it's totally obvious to everyone that I did it.

fame humor kaling mindy murder popularity

Mindy Kaling

30ce0e8

True freedom comes from being unknown.

fame freedom society

Ruth Ozeki

8a7ea9a

It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its own achievements. Ruins pose a direct challenge to our concern with power and rank, with bustle and fame. They puncture the inflated folly of our exhaustive and frenetic pursuit of wealth.

fame folly power rank ruins society wealth

Alain de Botton

5fca934

"No, no," said Taran slowly, "It would be folly to think of attacking them." He smiled quickly at Fflewddur. "The bards would sing of us," he admitted, "but we'd be in no position to appreciate it."

fame wise-words

Lloyd Alexander

b97336a

[A] finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more strange.

fame immortality unfinished-works writing

G.K. Chesterton

0548d78

A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.

fame social-criticism society values

Max Frisch

b20838b

"The meaning of life in western secular society is to be successful. So many people are success mad and they are encouraged to reach for something and have so called "worthwhile goals". Money, fame, power, good looks, possessions are the indicators of success and the media and advertising companies exploit this. People are conditioned to believe that they can only feel happy or good about themselves if they have these things. This of course is not true."

companies conditioned conditioning deceit fame goals good happiness indicators is lies life looks meaning media money of possessions power secular society success successful truth western what

Tim Crawshaw

fa5ce04

It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous.

fame humility popularity solitude

Bill Bryson

c76512f

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.

fame reading writers

Thomas C. Foster

c33222a

You can have all the money in the world, one of the biggest mansions ever built, be one of the most famous people in the world, and still be as unhappy as Mariah Carey was. Money and fame don't make people happy. Only God does. Amen.

fame god joy love mansion mariah-carey money peace popularity success unhappy worldly

Lisa Bedrick

8de9582

Why shouldn't I? I demand silently. Why shouldn't I become a famous writer? Like Norman Mailer. Or Philip Roth. And F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hemmingway and all those other men. Why can't I be like them? I mean, what is the point of becoming a writer if no one reads what you've written? Damn Viktor Greene and The New School. Why do I have to keep proving myself all of the time? Why can't I be like L'il, with everyone praising and encouraging me? Or Rainbow, with her sense of entitlement. I bet Viktor Greene never asked Rainbow why she wanted to be a writer. Or what if-I wince-Viktor Greene is right? I'm not a writer after all.

fame inspirational writing

Candace Bushnell

983b6ca

I earned a mater's degree in journalism and took the first job offered, as a sports writer. Instead of chasing my own fame, I wrote about famous athletes chasing theirs.

fame job journalism life work writer

Mitch Albom

0d99045

I came back [to school] in the fall, as a full-time boarder, with a certain set to my jaw, determined to go it alone. A summer passed in thoughtful isolation, rowing on a mountain lake, diving from a pier, had made me perfectly reckless. I was going to get myself recognized at whatever price. It was in this cold, empty gambler's mood, common to politicians and adolescents, that I surveyed the convent setup. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness.

catholic-school fame gambling

Mary McCarthy

04e3400

You don't live in London. You play London - to win. That's why we're all here. It is a city full of contestants, each chasing one of a million possible prizes: wealth, love, fame. Inspiration.

fame inspirational london love quote wealth

Caitlin Moran

1143b2d

I missed the crowds in those big stadiums, the flashbulbs, the roaring cheers - the majesty of the whole thing. I missed it bitterly. So did my father. We shared a thirst to return; unspoken, undeniable.

fame father-son short-term thirst

Mitch Albom

3fff5bc

"A book is a beautiful, paper mausoleum, or tomb, in which to store ideas... to keep the bones of your thoughts in one place, for all time. I just want to say - "Hello. We can hear you. The words survived."

books fame literature words

Caitlin Moran

f0bf718

We are Henceforth-mongers, trying to make our Henceforth the most enticing. Because the secret of everyone who comes to London - who comes to any big city - is that they came here because they did not feel normal, back at home. The only way they will ever feel normal is if they hijack popular culture with their weirdness... and make the rest of the world suddenly wish to become as weird as them.

city fame inspirational london normal

Caitlin Moran

07ddba8

"A book is a beautiful, paper mausoleum, or tomb, in which to store ideas... to keep the bones of your thoughts in one place, for all time I just want to say - "Hello. We can hear you. The words survived."

books fame literature words

Caitlin Moran

3690fb6

Joan Baez was a personality before she was entirely a person, and, like anyone to whom that happens, she is in a sense the hapless victim of what others have seen in her, written about her, wanted her to be and not to be.

fame

Joan Didion