“I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.”
Ray Charles
“I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.”
Ani Difranco
“It is better to be faithful than famous”
Theodore Roosevelt
“I awoke one morning and found myself famous.”
Lord Byron
“What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.”
Voltaire
“Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know? People are nice to ya, they give you the beneift o' the doubt... You drive a flash car down the freeway and the cops'll pull y'over and before they even look they like 'What the f**k are you doing?' and then they see it's you and they like 'Awww man, it's Chris Rock, it's okay, man we thought you was a nigga'.”
Chris Rock
“Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?”
John Keats
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