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The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing to consider an option other than lying. (Quote by - Michael Musto)

You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with. (Quote by - Omar Epps)

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it. (Quote by - Pliny The Elder)

I don't care about money or fame or anything like that, but it would be a perk. (Quote by - Lucas Grabeel)

A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come. (Quote by - Denis Waitley)

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing. (Quote by - Richard O'Brien)

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell! (Quote by - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)

Fame obviously has become a premium in everybody's life. Everybody thinks they deserve it, everybody thinks they want it and most people really don't enjoy it once they get it. (Quote by - Kelsey Grammer)

Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. (Quote by - John Milton)

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. (Quote by - Gene Hackman)

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 all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety. (Quote by - Daniel J. Boorstin)

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being. (Quote by - A. A. Milne)

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)

The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies. (Quote by - Linus Torvalds)

Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it. (Quote by - Sonny Bono)

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)

I don't need the fame right now; I'm not running from the law. (Quote by - Tina Yothers)

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