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  • George Thorogood on famous

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    “Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasn’t really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didn’t have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous.” -George Thorogood

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  • Neal Schon on famous

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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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  • Jill Scott on famous

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    “When I first became famous, I didn’t know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn’t know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didn’t know what to do with that.” -Jill Scott

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  • Noomi Rapace on famous

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    “I’m terrified of being too famous. What I’m really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it’s me, that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities.” -Noomi Rapace

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  • Oksana Baiul on famous

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    “Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.” -Oksana Baiul

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  • Gene Robinson on famous

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    “You know, I think Jesus was famous and also in a lot of trouble because he always chose people over sort of established procedures.” -Gene Robinson

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  • Michael Weatherly on famous

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    “I was in a karaoke video in 1991, for a song called ‘Sukiyaki,’ which is a very famous Japanese song, and I’ve actually heard from people that they’ve been in bars in Asia where they’ve seen me come up in the ‘Sukiyaki’ video that they play behind you. I’m in that. I’m in a karaoke

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  • Kurt Masur on famous

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    “I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things.” -Kurt Masur

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  • Christopher Parker on famous

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    “I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for that. When I’m acting, I feel great. It’s not to be famous.” -Christopher Parker

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  • Katie Holmes on famous

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    “We had such a wonderful set of circumstances in Wilmington. Yes, the four of us became famous literally overnight, but we were in a small town and we always knew when people were coming down. We always knew when to behave.” -Katie Holmes

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  • Randy Newman on famous

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    “It’s very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.” -Randy Newman

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  • Norman O. Brown on famous

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    “In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known – that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.” -Norman O. Brown

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  • Mickey Spillane on famous

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    “Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.” -Mickey Spillane

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  • Alan Vega on famous

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    “We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo’s, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I’m finally gonna die onstage, that’s where it’s going to be!” -Alan Vega

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  • Penn Jillette on famous

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    “Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.” -Penn Jillette

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  • Martha Reeves on famous

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    “Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we’re famous all over the world.” -Martha Reeves

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  • Adam Garcia on famous

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    “The most famous person in my phone is Lindsay Lohan. We starred in ‘Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen’ together in 2004 and we’ve stayed in touch.” -Adam Garcia

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  • Kristin Hersh on famous

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    “I don’t like the idea of famous people.” -Kristin Hersh

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  • Colin Hay on famous

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    “I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years – you’ve got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that’s what I’ve been doing.” -Colin Hay

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  • Rachel Hunter on famous

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    “But things move in circles: one minute it’s the models who are famous, then it’s the actresses, then it’s the designers.” -Rachel Hunter

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  • Bruce Oldfield on famous

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    “I was getting a lot of editorial, as in lots of pages in ‘Vogue,’ but it’s far more important to get your dresses on the back of a famous person. Charlotte Rampling in Bruce Oldfield. That sells.” -Bruce Oldfield

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  • David Carradine on famous

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    “Quentin is very organic there was no way that he was going to put someone else’s hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right.” -David Carradine

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  • Dax Shepard on famous

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    “Here’s the funny thing about the response I’ve been aware of to my dating famous people: It’s been very negative. I’m either not good-looking enough, not a good enough actor or not successful enough for these people.” -Dax Shepard

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  • Mickey Gilley on famous

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    “I guess the nicest thing about being, I won’t say famous but being popular is a more proper word for me to use would be that if you’ve got a recognizable name, a lot of times you can get people to do things for you ordinarily that you wouldn’t get done.” -Mickey Gilley

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  • Bruno Tonioli on famous

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    “It’s horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you’re not famous or rich, you’re not acceptable.” -Bruno Tonioli

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