Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.
William Shakespeare
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Popularity? It is glory's small change.
Victor Hugo
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I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.
Salma Hayek
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.
Jessica Alba
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If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David Thoreau
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The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
Chuang-tzu The Great Supreme
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The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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One of the many distinctions between the celebrity and the hero...is that one lives only for self while the other acts to redeem society.
Joseph Campbell, as quoted by Bill Moyers in the introduction. The Power of Myth
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The only way to escape the corruption of praise is to go on working...There is nothing else.
Albert Einstein The Quotable Einstein
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Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.
Samuel Butler The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
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