#fame

People always ask me why I still want to play, but I want to know why no one will give me an opportunity. It's like they put a stamp on me: 'Hall of Fame. You're done. That's it.' ↗

— Rickey Henderson

#ask #done #fame #give #give me

My only claim to fame, if I have one, is that I'm an editor. ↗

— Woody Herman

#editor #fame #i #only

I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing. ↗

— Eric Idle

#baseball #baseball player #being #comic #doing

I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives. ↗

— Jason Isaacs

#compromised #fame #hideously #i #imagine

Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together. ↗

— Jewel

#always #big #business #career #could

The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#although #came #did #enable #fame

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#except #fame #gone #left #little

Several famous people have licked my nipples. Well, indirectly. First they licked the stamps, and then I peeled them off the letters and stuck them on my nipples.
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— Jarod Kintz

#celebrity #fame #funny #humor #letter

Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row. ↗

— Ralph Kiner

#fame #five #hall #row #voted

Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders. ↗

— David Knopfler

#always #away #best #bull #creative