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I lived in Cuba - I was there for one year in the 1950s. We built the famous nightclub, which is still there, Tropicana, and a restaurant, Montecatini, that I opened is still there. I was there when the U.S. ambassador said everyone must leave because Castro was arriving the next morning.
- Sirio Maccioni
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A lot of my friends and the people I mingle with, they not famous. They don't got half of what I got. For me, what that do is, it keeps me humble. It keeps me grateful and appreciative of what I got.
- Tee Grizzley
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The more we can make our developers famous, the better.
- David Baszucki
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Most of what Hawaii has to offer is no secret. Pipeline is probably the most famous wave in the world.
- Kelly Slater
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Bruce was famous, but not 'Elvis famous.' He was confident and lighthearted. Comfortable in his own skin. Or so it seemed.
- Linda Thompson
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I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.
- Val Kilmer
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Mustard oil is not popular in Kerala at all. We have coconut oil and refined oil. I've tried some sweets and, of course, the famous fish, hilsa! I have a cook here with me, so he made it in our style.
- Mammootty
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My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.
- Joel McHale
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I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.
- Elizabeth Olsen
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There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that lie in the intersection of the Venn diagram of 'is a good idea' and 'looks like a bad idea.' So you want most people to think it's a bad idea and thus not compete with you until you get giant. But for it to secretly be good.
- Sam Altman
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I know I hold the contest record for downing the most hot dogs, and the record for most Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Contest championships, but it was really cool to be a part of a Guinness World Records official attempt.
- Joey Chestnut
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You know a dog loves you for who you are; they don't know if you're a soccer player or not. Sometimes people treat you good because you're a footballer or because you're famous, but a dog doesn't know it.
- Dries Mertens
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It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
- Gary Barlow
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Nobody's going to say hello to me in the street, really, because there'll be someone a bit more famous coming along the street in a minute. That typifies London, really.
- Ken Stott
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What is protecting me is that it is not a finality being an actress. I really think we tend to idealize this job a lot. When you're an actress and you're really famous, it means people believe you are on top of the world - and I think that's not true.
- Charlotte Le Bon
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I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.
- Helmut Newton
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Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation.
- Michael Eric Dyson
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I definitely wanted to be famous as a kid, but as I've gotten older, I feel less comfortable with it.
- Lola Kirke
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My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for 'Reggie-isms,' kind of like 'Yogi-isms.' He always said if you want to be a good quarterback, when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him, 'You mean ambidextrous, coach?'
- Peyton Manning
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If you ask me what's harder, being famous or flying to space, I'd say fame is much harder.
- Yi So-Yeon
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Michael Myers is a very famous character. This is the ninth movie with Michael Myers, and when you put on that mask for the first time, you get a little chill going down your spine.
- Tyler Mane
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I don't have many famous friends, really, except Simon Cowell.
- Leona Lewis
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I'm not looking to be famous, but I want a body of work and a moral character that is deserving of fame.
- Jonathan Tucker
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There's so much made of the exceptional and the celebrity, the famous, and the wannabees.
- Andrew Clements
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There is a famous musician, Peter Gabriel, who has used my voice in the movie, 'The Last Temptation of Christ.' He used my song in the background.
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
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I saw Louis Armstrong perform at Albany State College on Radio Springs Road. He was probably the first famous individual I saw in concert. Unfortunately, I never did get to meet him.
- Ray Stevens
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I do know something about the news world. I was sitting on the floors of newsrooms since I was seven years old, and I've been around them my whole life. I understand that someone looks at a story with famous people in it, and you want to put it out.
- George Clooney
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Black women have been screaming about famous predators like R&B singer R. Kelly, who allegedly preys on black girls, for well over a decade to no avail.
- Tarana Burke
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I have to say, you know, I've seen so many people go through the cycle and become famous and not famous anymore and, you know, want - have their priorities change and want different things.
- Rashida Jones
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I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.'
- Samuel L. Jackson
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While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos.
- Shawn Amos
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We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous.
- Robert Patrick
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I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.
- Carey Mulligan
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It doesn't matter what famous person I've come across in the street, I don't think I've ever shouted.
- Lewis Hamilton
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My music's gotten much more famous than me.
- J. J. Cale
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I don't like to be famous.
- Park Ji-sung
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I want to become more famous, even more famous.
- Yayoi Kusama
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I didn't even listen to any music until I was 19, really. I just wanted to be famous. But I didn't say it to anyone because I was really embarrassed at the thought.
- Marina and the Diamonds
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I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was physical and that all emotions were reductive to little electrical impulses in your neurons. And I found that I didn't believe that. But what the emotions really are, I don't have an alternative theory.
- Tom Stoppard
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Listen - by the time I'm 40, I'm either gonna be super famous or dead.
- Willam Belli
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Yeah, people following me down the street and at the airport and all that. I can't imagine what it must be like for people who are, you know, actually famous.
- Elliot Page
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In Germany I am not so famous.
- Hans Berger
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In a lot of aspects it's cooler that we don't have a lot of really overly famous people in the band.
- Neal Schon
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Turing was a quite brilliant mathematician, most famous for his work on breaking the German Enigma codes. It is no exaggeration to say that, without his outstanding contribution, the history of the Second World War could have been very different.
- Gordon Brown
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It's easy to be famous today. People pay a million dollars to be recognized, but nobody cares about them. They cared about me because I did things other men were afraid to do. That's why my fans identified with me. They were mostly working-class.
- Evel Knievel
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I just wanted to be famous. That's why I did reality shows, and that's why YouTube was so perfect.
- Trisha Paytas
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I'm largely interested in people who are just great actors, and they're not necessarily hugely famous.
- Tobias Menzies
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I felt that a cappella was the improv world with music, where it's very serious, and there are groups and competition, and some people become famous, and there's a language we speak from one improviser to another.
- Kay Cannon
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Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.
- Madonna Ciccone
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I don't see myself as famous; I see myself as a normal person with a job that is not very normal. My work life is very out there and very public. But I do my best to maintain my privacy.
- Hailey Baldwin
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Art is often defined as a famous masterpiece in a gallery, and we are meant to visit the work and view it to appreciate it. But that is not all there is.
- Ryuichi Sakamoto
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Celebrity is a word that I find offensive. That's the c-word. I hate it. It means no discernible talent. It means all you want is to be famous. It doesn't mean you're a writer, an actor, a mime. I think I wanna not be a celebrity.
- Bob Saget
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There is this power that comes with being famous.
- Rod Stewart
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I learned to ride a ten-speed when I was 4 or 5. My uncle gave me the bike, hand-me-down, and everyone used to stare at me riding up and down this block. I was too short to reach the pedals, so I put my legs through the V of the frame. I was famous. The little kid who could ride the ten-speed.
- Jay-Z
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The weird thing is I have now met quite a lot of people who are really famous but they are always disappointingly normal and nice. Alan Carr is very nice indeed. Exactly how you would expect him to be, and not that different from how he is on stage.
- Josh Widdicombe
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Morocco is completely alive for me because I spent about a third of my life there. The first few times I went back to Casablanca, I walked through the streets and remembered how years earlier I had walked those same streets and prayed that a miracle would happen and I would leave and become famous.
- Gad Elmaleh
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You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.
- Usain Bolt
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I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.
- Jack Hanna
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Neil Armstrong was no Christopher Columbus. In most respects, he was better. Unlike the famous fifteenth century seafarer, Armstrong knew where he landed. He also spent his time in public service, not in jail, and his passing was marked by world-wide encomiums. He ended his days as a celebrated explorer rather than a royal inconvenience.
- Seth Shostak
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Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.
- Kevin Bacon
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Ursula Nordstrom was famous for finding artists in unlikely places. Maurice Sendak was a window designer, and she just came across one of his windows. Everyone was looking to find a talent.
- Peter Sis
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You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.
- Evel Knievel
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Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.
- Hedy Lamarr
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Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
- James Thurber
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I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.
- Madonna Ciccone
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In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.
- Michael Caine
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
- Larry Hagman
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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
- Yves Saint Laurent
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Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I'm really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen.
- Sean Lennon
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Getting to say that I'm famous on YouTube is fun.
- Poppy
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My father was this famous heart surgeon, a wonderful man... but there was something about me that drove him crazy.
- Dominick Dunne
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The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.
- Kurtis Blow
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What is it about the cut of certain clothes that signals 'VIP?' Men's Brioni suits and Charvet shirts are famous for it.
- Christina Binkley
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I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian blew him off. I'll never forget the look on the young boy's face. He was devastated.
- Louie Anderson
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My wife, she is so good. She was a famous singer - had a show in Carnegie Hall, did a big city tour for RCA. Then she made the mistake of marrying me. The next year, another tour, but the third year, she had Mario and said, 'Either I'm a mother or a singer.'
- Sirio Maccioni
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In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an expert in five minutes. Special bonus: You can edit your own entry to make yourself seem even smarter.
- Stephen Colbert
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The Turkish government is very famous for hunting down those who oppose Erdogan... I just didn't really want to risk my life by going to Europe where Erdogan's long arms are everywhere.
- Enes Kanter
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I do hip-hop music, and I've gotten famous off of hip-hop music, and I know that I'm successful, and I've created my own definition of success, what success means to me. So the hip-hop world is all just really fake to me.
- Hopsin
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After becoming famous, I've realised how overrated fame is. It gets in the way of normal life.
- Ranveer Singh
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You see, for the most part it was a normal upbringing. Sure, there was the Nobel Peace award; sure, there were people coming to our house who I knew were famous. But we grew up in a very modest part of the community. Our last home was in what had been one of the worst ghettos in Atlanta.
- Yolanda King
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In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.
- Luciano Pavarotti
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There's a famous saying: 'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.' I want to change it to 'Hell hath no fury like a nation scorned.'
- Adnan Sami
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Disinterring famous people has become a kind of sport in the Hispanic world. Before Cervantes, it happened to Evita, Che Guevara, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Pablo Neruda.
- Ilan Stavans
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I didn't learn music because I wanted to become famous or earn a lot of money. It was to follow my father's advice and learn as much as I could about music.
- K. J. Yesudas
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I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.
- Ruth Negga
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I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.
- Liev Schreiber
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I'm focused on the next generation, because I think it's very hard to break the habit of adults who've got salt and sugar addictions and just ways of being in this world. It's very hard even for the most enlightened people at famous universities that are very wealthy to spend the money that it takes to feed the students something delicious.
- Alice Waters
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The Bush administration opened several lines of attack against the rule of law and the integrity of an independent Justice Department. The scandals are so famous that they've been reduced to shorthand: Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, NSA, Attorneygate.
- Ari Melber
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I came to the United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty roles because I'd become famous for playing the nicest man in Australia. So I wanted to play bad guys.
- Alan Dale
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I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry.
- Herschel Walker
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Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.
- James Wolcott
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The most famous and one of the most thoroughgoing opponents of bank credit was Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson reacted to the panic of 1819 as a confirmation of his pessimistic views on banks.
- Murray Rothbard
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I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging.
- Danny Elfman
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I was always obsessed with being famous. I had Marilyn Monroe paper dolls as a child, and I was always obsessed with her. I've just been really driven in that direction, and none of my friends were. So, I don't know what put that bug in me at a young age.
- Holly Madison
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The thing is: in order to reach an agreement, to reach that balance, sometimes it is sort of like that old Rhinestone Cowboy lyric, 'There'll be a load of compromisin' on the road to my horizon.' For those of you who were too young, or don't recall the song, made famous by country singer Glen Campbell, it is your loss.
- Bart Chilton
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There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way.
- Geri Halliwell
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I've learned to stay away from publicity addicts, people who want to be famous for no reason.
- Paz de la Huerta
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A famous actor told me once - I don't want to name names, I hate that sort of thing - but I was at his house and he said, 'Are you on Twitter?' I said, 'Yes, I am.' And he said, 'There'll be one day when you'll have, like, five friends. And in the same day it'll go to five thousand.'
- Sam Claflin
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I've never done this from a standpoint of, 'I want to be famous.' I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing.
- Ne-Yo
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I was a grown-up when 'celebrity' happened. So I knew exactly what it was like to be in line at a restaurant and watch someone famous walk in and get a table immediately. I knew I didn't like that; I don't want to make somebody else feel the way I felt.
- Judy Sheindlin
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