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I do not deny I brought most of my notoriety on myself, nor do I apologize for it. -- Billy Carter
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
Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again. -- Patrick Stump
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
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
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
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
Notoriety is often mistaken for fame. -- Aesop
Fifteen Minutes of Notoriety Beats the Best Advertising Money Can Buy -- Ernie J Zelinski
Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity. -- Neil Gaiman
Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done. -- Ray Bradbury
Stupidity fuses notoriety and celebrity. -- Suzanne Fields
I've never had much notoriety. It's fine with me. -- James Harden
We are extremely private, and we really got sort of ambushed by the notoriety. -- John Grisham
As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film. -- Alessandro Nivola
America puts killers on the cover of 'TIME' magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our favorite movie stars. -- Marilyn Manson
You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety. -- Morgan Brittany
It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory. -- Louisa May Alcott
To whatever degree you have as a celebrity or notoriety, there are people who see you as an opinion leader. -- Eric Balfour
The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for. -- Brian Boitano
Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight. -- Valerie Trierweiler
What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety. -- Mickey Rourke
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
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
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. -- Bryan Cranston
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
A good stunt has to have both style and substance. It's a combination of impact and notoriety, the element of danger, technical execution, and the skill of the stunt performer. -- Steve Truglia
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
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
When you go along in life and develop whatever notoriety you do, people begin to relate to you differently, and I'm just always most comfortable with the people I grew up with. -- Thomas Friedman
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
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
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
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. -- Rick Warren
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
When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety. -- Bil Keane
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
The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one more clout with publishers and more notoriety among journalists. The effect on one's writing, however, is nil - otherwise, one would be in deep trouble. -- John Banville
Quantum Leap' gave me a huge opportunity as an actor. The nature of the role and it's demands allowed people to perceive me as a versatile actor, and the wide success of the show around the planet gave me a certain notoriety that helped me get other work. -- Scott Bakula
There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy surface of popular culture. But these days, pop culture seems to have gotten fuzzier and fuzzier; notoriety comes and goes in the snap of a finger. -- Susan Orlean
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
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
I don't ever want it to be about me. A friend of mine told me, 'The difference between fame and notoriety is fame is when people know you, and notoriety is when people know your work.' The first one is not respectable, but the second one is, because that leaves a legacy. -- Troy Baker
You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front of them, like some sort of baffler, or Ready Brek force field. Their reach for notoriety predicated on that fulsome mediocrity of talent detailed above has become frozen in their faces. -- Will Self
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
Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety ... -- Ouida
Fame is one thing, notoriety is another. -- Lana Turner
When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial. -- David Duchovny
Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone. -- Bob Dylan
The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it. -- Bill Nighy
Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart. -- James Branch Cabell
To be known for one's saddest story is not the road to notoriety anyone would willingly choose. -- Michael Dorris
To be known for one's saddest story is not the road to notoriety anyone would willingly choose." -- Michael Dorris
Who is this Monet whose name sounds just like mine and who is taking advantage of my notoriety? -- Edouard Manet
Fame, at one time, was associated with accomplishment, but in this day and age fame and notoriety have become confused. -- Don Henley
Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be noticed for their vices than not be noticed at all. -- Harry S. Truman
Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred. -- Franz Grillparzer
I think that whenever a Jew has any kind of notoriety, good or bad, the Jews find it to be good. -- Sarah Silverman
This year, notoriety got confused with fame, and the devil is down hearted because there is nothing left for him to claim. -- Don Henley
People who are seriously damaged by sudden fame and notoriety have, in my experience, very low esteem at the root of their being. -- Roger Lloyd-Pack
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. -- Kirby Wright
And now, finished with that puzzling mixture of insane intimacy and isolation which is notoriety, Velvet was able to get on quietly to her next adventures. -- Enid Bagnold
It wasn't until I was 35 or 36, when I wrote 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' that I began to get some notoriety, though I only made $5,000. -- John Patrick Shanley
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. -- Dan Poynter
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. -- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
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When I first became recognizable from appearing on television, I abused my notoriety as much as I possibly could, at the expense of both my health and personal relationships. -- Steve-O
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
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
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. -- Roopal Patel
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. -- Dan Chaon
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
Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer. -- P. J. Soles
Besides the pleasure, there is always remorse, from the indulgence of our passions; and, after all, what have you men to fear from all this; the world excuses, and notoriety ennobles you? -- Alexandre Dumas

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