Best Notoriety Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Barney's Version

“Imagine a piece of spaghetti that looks edible but that never ends once you start sucking it in—that’s fame in a nutshell.”

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Book:Cali the Destroyer

Source: Cali the Destroyer

“Sometimes people identified too strongly with the famous—it was one of the prices of notoriety, especially when so many considered you to be a hero. Batman sometimes filled much too large a hole in people’s lives.”

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Book:The Batman Murders

Source: The Batman Murders

“That's what mild television fame is like: it's like walking through the world with your fly down.”

Fame Notoriety

Author:Dave Holmes

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Book:The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

Source: The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“For the average person leading an ordinary life, fame holds an hypnotic attraction. Many would sooner perish than exist in anonymity. But for the unlucky few who've had notoriety forced upon them, infamy can be a sentence more damning than any prison term”

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Author:Emily Thorne

“Remain humble and you will be recognized for that. Sometimes being graceful is just as attractive as notoriety, for the goodness you create.”

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Author:Ron Baratono

“He always had a wild desire for notoriety... always had a craze to be mixed up with any scandal or catastrophe he heard of. Why, that man didn't like funerals because he couldn't pretend to be the corpse.”

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Book:Mistress Pat

Source: Mistress Pat

“It is even more unpleasant to hate someone who does not even know that you exist.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.”

Film Stars Havens Notoriety

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“It was hard to turn down the money since I didn't have a job, but I didn't want to exploit my notoriety because I knew the way I'd been living was wrong.”

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Author:Donna Rice Hughes

“renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand.”

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Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.”

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Book:The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)

Source: The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)

“If you get a certain amount of notoriety for doing something, and you can stick to that type of project for the rest of your life and make a decent living, I think you still have a responsibility to stretch. Flexibility is what keeps you alive.”

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Author:Clint Eastwood

“Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.”

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Author:Bob Dylan

“It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin.”

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Book:The Confucian Analects, the Great Learning & the Doctrine of the Mean

Source: The Confucian Analects, the Great Learning & the Doctrine of the Mean

“Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart.”

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Book:The Cream of the Jest

Source: The Cream of the Jest

“Fifteen Minutes of Notoriety Beats the Best Advertising Money Can Buy”

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Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“Without music I wouldn't have the ability to be in business. The opportunity to be in business came with the finances from music and the notoriety that comes with being successful as an artist. So I see myself as an artist first, but I'm absolutely conscious of business.”

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Author:Curtis Jackson

“Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy the pretensions we have, and those which we have not, and do not even wish for. We envy the greatest qualities and every trifling advantage. We envy the most ridiculous appearance or affectation of superiority. We envy folly and conceit; nay, we go so far as to envy whatever confers distinction of notoriety, even vice and infamy.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.”

Littles Fame Notoriety

Book:Othmar. Friendship. And other stories

Source: Othmar. Friendship. And other stories

“It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.”

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Author:James Russell Lowell

“Even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labor under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him.”

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Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.”

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Author:Abraham Cowley

“Fame, or notoriety, whichever that special noise may be called when the world like a hound 'gives tongue' and announces that the quarry in some form of genius is at bay, is apt to increase its clamor in proportion to the aloofness of the pursued animal.”

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Book:Innocent

Source: Innocent

“Fame is one thing, notoriety is another.”

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Author:Lana Turner

“Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight.”

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Author:Valerie Trierweiler

“The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.”

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Author:Bill Nighy

“Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.”

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Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Climbing is one of the few sports in which the arena (the cliffs, the mountains and their specific routes) acquire a notoriety that outpopulates, outshines and outlives the actual athletes.”

“I learned that famous writers are people with foibles like anyone else and this helped me realize reaching their level of notoriety wasn't impossible.”

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Author:Kirby Wright

“I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of which is apparently the necessary incident of politics - except doing public work to the best of my ability.”

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Author:John Abbott

“You can't count on notoriety lasting very long, and there's no way to predict whether anyone will care about your books or you in three years, let alone ten or twenty.”

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Author:Dan Chaon

“Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.”

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Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.”

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Author:Oscar De La Hoya

“The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse.”

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Author:Anthony Burgess

“Fame, at one time, was associated with accomplishment, but in this day and age fame and notoriety have become confused.”

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Author:Don Henley

“I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.”

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Author:Ralph Lauren

“Many first-time authors are not concerned about the advance or royalties, they want the notoriety. They get smarter on their second book and look for the money.”

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Book:The Self-publishing Manual: How to Write, Print, and Sell Your Own Book

Source: The Self-publishing Manual: How to Write, Print, and Sell Your Own Book

“As a human being with notoriety and a big mouth, I've felt most threatened during the first Bush Administration. Whenever there's a Bush in the White House, many people die, and the rest of us are threatened. I just didn't think it would happen quite so quickly. The so-called USA Patriot Act, and the announcement of trying people in military tribunals if Bush or Rumsfeld's or Ashcroft's people think they somehow qualify as terrorists, basically, this is McCarthyism run amok.”

“There's this notion that in order to draw attention and to be considered for roles I want to be considered for, you need a certain amount of notoriety.”

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Author:Bryan Cranston

“America puts killers on the cover of Time magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our favorite movie stars.”

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Author:Marilyn Manson

“I believe that the purpose of influence is to speak up for those who have no influence. And fame is not for our own benefit, or notoriety is not for our own benefit, it's for leverage to do good.”

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Author:Rick Warren

“Tom Ford just started at Gucci and was getting great notoriety - like Madonna wearing that head-to-toe velvet suit at the MTV awards. I remember it like it was yesterday.”

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Author:Roopal Patel

“I feel like I've been dealing with that building over the years because of the Broadway community, so I'm treating it in the same way - I've always tried to keep my personal life private. I didn't get into this business for notoriety or fame. I don't go to places to be seen and that's not going to change.”

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Author:Aaron Tveit

“I think Paris Hilton is really our generation's Marilyn Monroe. She's the image of the youth today. There's a real fascination with Paris, ranging on the obsessive. I'm repulsed by her, but because of her notoriety, she has access to an audience.”

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Author:Matt Tong

“I think that whenever a Jew has any kind of notoriety, good or bad, the Jews find it to be good.”

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Author:Sarah Silverman

“I'm not a plumber who accidentally blew up or a math professor who accidentally backed into notoriety. I have a master's from Yale drama, and I auditioned for this. So obviously I want to be in the limelight in some capacity, or I want to be in entertainment in some capacity.”

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Author:Adam Richman

“It's a culture shock to go from obscurity to notoriety in a flash. Its more to it than talent and money; its pressure, stress, enemies, critics; you have to develop relationships and a team. There are all of these things that go along with taking a leap and following your dreams.”

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Author:T. D. Jakes

“I think that at a certain stage those early ambitions burn away, partly because you achieve something, you get something done, you get some notoriety. And then the particularities of who you are and what your deepest commitments are begin expressing themselves. You're not just chasing the idea of "me" being important, but you, rather, are chasing a particular passion.”

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Author:Barack Obama

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