I want people talking about me when I'm gone. — Jake Paul
Who is this Monet whose name sounds just like mine and who is taking advantage of my notoriety? — Edouard Manet
As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film. — Alessandro Nivola
You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you. — Oscar De La Hoya
To be known for one's saddest story is not the road to notoriety anyone would willingly choose. — Michael Dorris
Fame is one thing, notoriety is another. — Lana Turner
It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory. — Louisa May Alcott
You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety. — Morgan Brittany
Fifteen Minutes of Notoriety Beats the Best Advertising Money Can Buy — Ernie J Zelinski
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Notorious sinners didn’t kill Jesus. Religious people did. — Judah Smith
I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so. — Erik Satie
How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion. — Molly Ivins
The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis painful and boring; and is a creature of physical ebullience. — Doris Humphrey
I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself. — Rock Hudson
Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge. — Richard E. Grant
I put all of my resources into pushing the evolution in an industry that is notoriously backwards and I enjoy pushing that envelope,. — George Lucas
It reminded him of his Uncle Seamus, the notorious and poetic drunk, who would sit down at the breakfast table the morning after a bender, drain a bottle of stout and say 'Ah, the chill of consciousness returns — Molly O'Neill
Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears, before we should wake from our trance and hear the warning and see that to lose oneself in all, is the only way to find oneself. — Mahatma Gandhi
When Elvis made his mass-media debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - his notorious gyrations filmed only from the waist up - I fell off the family chaise longue with delight. — John Lahr
Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again. — Patrick Stump
After I saw how badly animals were treated to en up in our plates, how bad it was for our health and for the environment, I decided to stop this nonsense and educate others. After all, animals can’t talk and they need people that have notoriety like me to be their voices. — Georges Laraque
I cant think of any negative [aspects of working in the wrestling industry]. The positive are the money, the comradery, the prestige, the notoriety. A lot of pluses. — Ric Flair
renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand. — Ambrose Bierce
As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor. — Abraham Cowley
Even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labor under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him. — Joseph Addison
Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight. — Valerie Trierweiler
NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending. — Ambrose Bierce
Fame, at one time, was associated with accomplishment, but in this day and age fame and notoriety have become confused. — Don Henley
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind. — George William Curtis
Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. — Amelia Earhart
I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of which is apparently the necessary incident of politics - except doing public work to the best of my ability. — John Abbott
Fame, or notoriety, whichever that special noise may be called when the world like a hound 'gives tongue' and announces that the quarry in some form of genius is at bay, is apt to increase its clamor in proportion to the aloofness of the pursued animal. — Marie Corelli
Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position. — Donald Rumsfeld
Most restaurants fail. The sad ones are stillborn. The mad ones flourish within the bustle and excitement of fame, notoriety, the thrill of the new. But they rarely sustain the glow. They are balloons kept aloft by a restless crowd. Only the strange, the freaks of restaurant perfection, can sustain life beyond a few years. — Sam Sifton
Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be remarked for their vices and follies than not be noticed at all! — Harry S. Truman
I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly. — Diana Ross
Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness. . . . For you see, greatness is a measure of one's spirit, not a result of one's rank in human affairs. — Sherman Glenn Finesilver
Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level. — Bill Dixon
I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity. — Kenny G
It was hard to turn down the money since I didn't have a job, but I didn't want to exploit my notoriety because I knew the way I'd been living was wrong. — Donna Rice
The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for. — Brian Boitano
It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment. — James Russell Lowell
Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart. — James Branch Cabell
It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin. — Confucius
Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone. — Bob Dylan
I do not deny I brought most of my notoriety on myself, nor do I apologize for it. — Billy Carter
Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing had it not been for the sex videos that lofted them into reality-TV notoriety. Once notoriety has warmed into familiarity, celebrity itself becomes one big 'Brady Bunch' reunion, or a therapy session with Dr. Drew. — James Wolcott
Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that. — Robert Redford
Jock Semple and I began appearing at speeches together and he came up to me on the start line in 1973 and planted a big kiss on my cheek. He said in his Scottish brogue: "Come on lass, let's get a wee bit of notoriety." He never said he was sorry but that was his way of saying it, I'm sure. — Kathrine Switzer
I feel like I've been dealing with that building over the years because of the Broadway community, so I'm treating it in the same way - I've always tried to keep my personal life private. I didn't get into this business for notoriety or fame. I don't go to places to be seen and that's not going to change. — Aaron Tveit
I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better. — Ralph Lauren
The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse. — Anthony Burgess
Climbing is one of the few sports in which the arena (the cliffs, the mountains and their specific routes) acquire a notoriety that outpopulates, outshines and outlives the actual athletes. — Jonathan Waterman
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