“A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas – a place where history comes to life.”
— Norman Cousins
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I had a very erratic career. I
“I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?”
— Colin Hay
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I have also just finished three weeks
“I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler.”
— Jeremy Bulloch
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I try to become more humble and
“I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.”
— Mira Sorvino
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Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so
“Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys.”
— Bert Campaneris
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I felt no pressure that my grandfather
“I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous.”
— Kim Weston
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In opera, as with any performing art,
“In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.”
— Luciano Pavarotti
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I studied Japanese language and culture in
“I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha.”
— Arthur Golden
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I just think Rosa Parks was overrated.
“I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.”
— Stephen Colbert
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In the beginning, I loved being famous,
“In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.”
— Roberto Cavalli
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The seven wise men of Greece, so
“The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.”
— Robert South
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