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Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another.

Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.

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

Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame is an Irish bull.

Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.

Deathless laurel is the victor's due.

Detraction's a bold monster, and fears not To wound the fame of princes, if it find But any blemish in their lives to work on.

Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?

Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.

Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.

Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.

Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.

Don't seek to be a person of fame, for even villains can be famous. Instead, be a person of value. Fame fades but value is honored.

Dream big and surround yourself with brilliance, even if you end up dressed up like a flower or a sexually transmitted disease.

Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame.

Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.

[Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war.

Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.

Expenditure now attracts fame as conquest once did.

Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.

Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.

Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.

Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

Everyone in showbiz is driven by ego, so how do you go from having loads of fame to working at 7-11? You can't do it!

Extraordinary beauty can be a curse to the one who possesses it. one pays a dear price for fame and fortune

Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.

Fame and fortune, how empty they can be.

Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.

Fame and success put tremendous demands on people. It robs them of their necessary privacy and anonymity. That's hard for even healthy people to deal with.

Fame and me just don't go together. It's not always a fair process.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Fame, at one time, was associated with accomplishment, but in this day and age fame and notoriety have become confused.

Fame doesn't end loneliness.

Fame has always been a downside to acting for me. It gives me the creeps.

Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.

Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.

Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy

Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.

Fame can be very dangerous, because you can start to enjoy that part of it. And that's not the good part of what I do for a living. The good part is the making of films. The unpleasant part is the fame part, if you're not careful.

Fame comes and fame goes, but you have to be able to laugh about yourself and to take it with a grain of salt.

Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.

Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn't die of an overdose, he died of fame.

Fame is a can of worms I haven't really had to contend with.

Fame is a series of misunderstandin gs surrounding a name.

Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.

Fame is but a fruit tree- so very unsound. It can never flourish 'till its stock is in the ground.

Fame is, I think, just a disgusting by-product of what I do.

Fame is one thing, notoriety is another.