Notoriety Quotes

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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.

Who is this Monet whose name sounds just like mine and who is taking advantage of my notoriety?

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

I can’t 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.

Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight.

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.

As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.

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

To be known for one's saddest story is not the road to notoriety anyone would willingly choose.

Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

Fame is one thing, notoriety is another.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.

Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be remarked for their vices and follies than not be noticed at all!

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

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.

Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.

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.

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.

You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.

Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart.

Fifteen Minutes of Notoriety Beats the Best Advertising Money Can Buy

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.

I do not deny I brought most of my notoriety on myself, nor do I apologize for it.

When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial.

The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.

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.

America puts killers on the cover of Time magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our favorite movie stars.

I think that whenever a Jew has any kind of notoriety, good or bad, the Jews find it to be good.

Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be seen, and heard, and on the air.

Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.

When a child wants to be accepted, he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that's what you'll do.

Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.

Tom Ford just started at Gucci and was getting great notoriety - like Madonna wearing that head-to-toe velvet suit at the MTV awards. I remember it like it was yesterday.

The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.

The entertainment person gets a certain credibility, and the politician gets a certain notoriety. I'm against it.

I believe that the purpose of influence is to speak up for those who have no influence. And fame is not for our own benefit, or notoriety is not for our own benefit, it's for leverage to do good.

Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done.

This year, notoriety got confused with fame, and the devil is down hearted because there is nothing left for him to claim.

Many first-time authors are not concerned about the advance or royalties, they want the notoriety. They get smarter on their second book and look for the money.

There's this notion that in order to draw attention and to be considered for roles I want to be considered for, you need a certain amount of notoriety.

Notoriety is cheap. It's just easier to get noticed by doing something bad.

You can't count on notoriety lasting very long, and there's no way to predict whether anyone will care about your books or you in three years, let alone ten or twenty.

I learned that famous writers are people with foibles like anyone else and this helped me realize reaching their level of notoriety wasn't impossible.

There is no such thing as notoriety in the United States these days, let alone infamy. Celebrity is all.

But the truth is, nothing delights me more than a biography of one of the truly great that proves he or she was an absolute shit.

That's what mild television fame is like: it's like walking through the world with your fly down.

Popularity makes no sense If your fame is a shame.