Famous Quotes
If we have to choose between destroying a famous building and sacrificing our own men, then our men's lives count infinitely more and the building must go. But the choice is not always so clear-cut as that. Nothing can stand against the argument of military necessity. That is an accepted principle.
Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
But you ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it is they who made it famous.
I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.
Why, when people are starving, am I on a carpet that's red? Because I'm "important"? Because I'm "famous"? That's not how I roll.
Being famous is like a dream come true but it's really difficult because you lose your freedom. I don't want to lose being a kid.
Being rich and famous seems to have its ups and downs. That's the price you pay for being troubadours and clowns.
I knew I was famous the day I played football with mates in L.A. I scored a goal and Rod Stewart jumped on top of me. I thought: 'I had a poster of you on my wall when I was 12.
I'm quite happy being famous for what I do but I'm not happy about being famous for the sake of being famous.
Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people; it doesn't sound good to me. If you're making music in order to become famous or loved by the masses that's not what I'm about. When somebody's making music for the wrong reasons, I hear it right away.
You know, it's infuriating. It's hard enough to be a young woman not in the public eye, and just have lots of public eyes looking at you ... let alone being famous and having a million people look at you constantly.
I went to New York. I had a dream. I wanted to be a big star, I didn't know anybody, I wanted to dance, I wanted to sing, I wanted to do all those things, I wanted to make people happy, I wanted to be famous, I wanted everybody to love me. I wanted to be a star. I worked really hard, and my dream came true.
Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.
I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.
Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
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