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“I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.”

Feels Kids Half Minutes Fame Band Sorry Disposable

Author:Zakk Wylde

“What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.”

Men Giving Literature Half Fame Posterity

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I could not conceive that [fans] actually wanted me to sign something. It took a long time for me to figure out (a) just say 'Thank you' and sign the thing, and (b) smile in the picture, because if you try to just half-smile you're going to look constipated.”

Ifs Trying Looks Long Wanted Half Fans Figures Fame Long Time Saying Thank You

Author:Joss Whedon

“A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.”

Needs Nations Half Fame Importance Notes Explanation Dozen

Book:Persuasion In Modern English

Source: Persuasion In Modern English

“A man who cannot win fame in big own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True, there are some half-dozen exceptions to this truth among millions of myriads that attest it; but what man of common sense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising a lottery?”

Men Bigs Age Winning Chance Common Half Millions Amount Fame Common Sense Exception Dozen Posterity Lottery

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me.”

Young Actors Hours Half Minutes Like You Fame Fifteen I Like You Young Actors

Author:John Hughes

“I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life.”

World I Can Done Used Can Do Half Fame Good In The World

Author:Alicia Keys

“Sweet were the days when I was all unknown, But when my name was lifted up, the storm Brake on the mountain and I cared not for it. Right well know I that fame is half disfame.”

Knows Wells Names Half Sweet Fame Mountain Storm Brake

Book:Idylls of the King

Source: Idylls of the King

“The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty”

Men Needs Facts Half Moral Honest Talent Honesty Genius Fame Eternal Mere Liars Honest Man Sneak Comets Insincerity Shirk

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations