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Fame Quotes - Page 10

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.

"David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council (2003 Cover Story)". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. January 11, 2016.

Fame makes me feel wanted and loved, anybody wants that.

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

"Marilyn Monroe Pours Her Heart Out". Interview with Richard Meryman, LIFE Magazine, August 3, 1962.

After all, what does fame everlasting mean? Mere vanity.

"The meditations of Marcus Aurelius". Book by Marcus Aurelius, translated by Jeremy Collier, archive.org. 1887.

Amidst all of these flashing lights I pray the fame won't take my life.

Singing the song "Paparazzi" during MTV Video Music Award, 2009.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

"Lady Gaga launches 'slutty' fragrance". Interview with Maggie Lake, www.cnn.com. September 13, 2012.

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

"Lycidas" l. 70 (1638). A 1619 play thought to be written by John Fletcher, Sir John van Olden Barnavelt act 1, sc. 1, refers to "the desire of glory (That last infirmity of noble minds)." That play was lost and not rediscovered until 1883, so Milton's parallel words were coincidental.

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

John Milton (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...”, p.297