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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.”

Made Facts Lying Differences Impossible Fame Folks Made It Spotlight Pedestal Pausing

Author:Michael Musto

“There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.”

People Humor Inspiration School Differences Fame Insight Infamy

Author:Ricky Gervais

“This whole celebrity-fame thing is interesting. I'm the same person I always was. The only difference between being famous and not being famous is that people know who you are.”

People Knows Persons Whole Differences Interesting Fame Who You Are Being Famous

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Strive for originality in thought and action. Be first; Be different; And be daring. Only then will you make a significant difference in this world. You may even attain greatness.”

World Firsts May Different Action Differences This World Greatness Fame Strive Significant Originality Daring Thoughts And Actions

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“Of this be wary. Honor and fame are often regarded as interchangeable. Both involve an appraisal of the individual. . . but I suggest this difference. Fame is morally neutral.”

Individual Differences Honor Fame Appraisal

Author:Edward R. Murrow

“I get hired more then I get seen more. I get seen more then maybe celebrity and fame happens but at the end of the day there's no difference between my five dollar performance and my fifty million dollar performance. It's not going to make me a better father.”

Ends Happens Father Differences Millions Five Fame Performances Dollars Fifty The End Of The Day Million Dollars

Author:Tom Hardy

“All those years I had been making movies because I loved movies, and that's what made all the difference. If you're doing it because you love it you can succeed because you'll work harder than anyone else around you, take on challenges no one else would dare take, and come up with methods no one else would discover, especially when their prime drive is fame and fortune. All that will follow later if you really love what you do. Because your work will speak itself.”

Ifs Years Made Speak Challenges Differences Hard Work Fame Succeed Harder Method Fortune Come Up Dare Prime Work Harder

Author:Robert Rodriguez

“What I remember thinking at that point, having gone through both the ups and downs of my first four years, and seeing the sea of people was, "What a remarkable country this is and how lucky am I that we live in a place where the son of a single mom, not born into any kind of fame or fortune, in a pretty remote state somehow can end up be in a position to - to make a difference."”

“What difference does it make after all?--anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what’s heaven? what’s earth? All in the mind.”

Men World Mind Doe Wisdom Earth Heaven Differences Fame Anonymity

Book:On the Road

Source: On the Road

“If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.”

Ifs Three Differences Fame Prove Forgotten Columns Obscurity

Book:Decorative Art in America: A Lecture, Together with Letters, Reviews and Interviews. Edited, with an Introd. by Richard Butler Glaenzer

Source: Decorative Art in America: A Lecture, Together with Letters, Reviews and Interviews. Edited, with an Introd. by Richard Butler Glaenzer

“Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna.”

Knows Mother Differences Fame Teresa

Author:Erma Bombeck