"Famous"

(43 votes)   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
American, Comedian Quotes

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(43 votes)   Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

Seth Lloyd
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(43 votes)   How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

Jean Jacques Rousseau
1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist

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(43 votes)   I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

Sting
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(43 votes)   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
Italian, Musician Quotes

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(43 votes)   There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer Odyssey

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(42 votes)   Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.

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(42 votes)   Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

Ambrose Bierce
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(42 votes)   Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood.

Pauly Shore
American, Comedian Quotes

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(42 votes)   I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(42 votes)   I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

Catherine Deneuve
French, Actress Quotes

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(42 votes)   My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

Shirley Knight
American, Actress Quotes

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(41 votes)   I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.

Gabrielle Reece
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(41 votes)   Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, / Romeo? / Deny thy father, and refuse thy name - Romeo & Juliet

Shakespeare

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(41 votes)   They can gas me, but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do.

Sirhan Sirhan
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