“For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.”
— Jesse Owens
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“For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.”
— Jesse Owens
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“Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.”
— Lawrence Welk
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“The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.”
— Britney Spears
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“I can never really enjoy being famous.”
— Utada Hikaru
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“It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.”
— Griffin Dunne
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“What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.”
— Voltaire
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“One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.”
— Charles Barkley
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“Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance.”
— Robert Rodriguez
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“We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous.”
— Robert Patrick
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“A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.”
— Johnny Knoxville
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“The poster boy for our superabled future is Oscar Pistorius, an increasingly famous South African sprinter who happens to have had both of his legs amputated below the knee. Using upside down question mark-shaped carbon fiber sprinting prosthetics, called Cheetah blades, Mr. Pistorius can challenge the fastest sprinters in the world.”
— Daniel H. Wilson
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