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Fame

«The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to»
Author: Benjamin Haydon | About: Fame, Reputation | Keywords: First to, sterling
«The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you»
Author: Gloria Vanderbilt (Designer, Poet) | About: Fame
«There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige (defining it as respect or es»
«The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.»
Author: Elvis Presley (Actor, Singer) | About: Fame | Keywords: live up to, The Image
«The egos in this industry are incredibly vulnerable and everybody's afraid to wipe out. So everybody plays it safe and everybody tells everybody else how great they are.»
Author: Michelle Rodriguez | About: Fame
«The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.»
Author: Sallust | About: Fame, Intelligence | Keywords: fleeting, fragile
«The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame, -a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.»
«The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.»
«The highest form of vanity is love of fame.»
«Then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink»
Author: John Keats (Poet) | About: Fame, Love | Keywords: fame, nothingness, shore, sink, wide

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