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The whole fame and fortune thing is addictive. -- Jimmy Nail
I couldn't lie to get myself fame and fortune. -- Dave Pelzer
The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune. -- Amelia Earhart
My goal has always been longevity. Not fame and fortune, just get a job and keep it. -- James Garner
I think the concept of seeking fame and fortune in women's football in the States is a bit idyllic. -- Hope Solo
When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football. -- Victor Cruz
Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them. -- Anthony Horowitz
Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough. -- Max Walker
Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it. -- Karrine Steffans
I came from nothing and achieved humungous fame and fortune. But I worked hard. I had discipline and determination. I had that ice in me. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
I never really acted full-time. I certainly had gotten past the point where fame and fortune was something that I was dreaming about or anticipating. -- Allison Tolman
I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had. -- Robin Gibb
It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that. -- Lesley Garrett
To put it simply - you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I don't buy into the notion that being famous is somehow a good thing, or an exciting thing, or a wonderful thing. -- Evangeline Lilly
I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning. -- Little Richard
You will never win fame and fortune unless you invent big ideas. -- David Ogilvy
Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun" -- Suzanne Collins
The ego seeks fame and fortune. Humility doesn't seek at all - it accepts. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. -- Margaret D. Nadauld
All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe. -- Dolly Parton
The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil. -- Boyd K. Packer
Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer . . . -- George Washington Carver
Extraordinary beauty can be a curse to the one who possesses it. one pays a dear price for fame and fortune -- Sandra Brown
Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them." -- Anthony Horowitz
It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more than fame and fortune. -- Robert Fulghum
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. -- William Saroyan
I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly. -- Siobhan Fahey
Taking the way that opens, even if it seems hardly more than a footpath, not infrequently leads to the highways of heart's desire, if not to fame and fortune. -- Frances Parkinson Keyes
A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come. -- Denis Waitley
I think the concept of seeking fame and fortune in women's football in the States is a bit idyllic. Look at all the teams in America that have folded, and the leagues. -- Hope Solo
You should get married. When I was younger, I was into the fame and fortune, and now I realize that a loving wife and happy children - that's life's greatest consolation prize. -- Emo Philips
I can't watch my first audition because it makes me too upset. I just think it is really sad. I look at myself and don't recognize myself. I do think fame and fortune changes people. -- Rebecca Ferguson
As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember. -- Katarina Witt
A lot of times, people think that it doesn't make sense for people to be depressed when they have everything, a loving husband, a successful career, fame and fortune. I wanted to make this point that profound despair can strike anybody. -- Miriam Toews
Being on stage is a seductive lifestyle. My advice to aspiring actors is think twice. People sometimes go into acting for the wrong reasons - as a shortcut to fame and fortune. If these goals are not attained, they feel a bitter disappointment. -- Chris Sarandon
In my lifetime, I've discovered a great many incredibly talented individuals. Some have achieved stardom. Simultaneously, I've seen many dreams shattered, egos destroyed and lives changed forever. The end destination may well be fame and fortune, but the road to stardom is littered with broken hearts. -- Nigel Lythgoe
People get a little sidelined thinking that fame and fortune is going to bring them happiness, peace and contentment in their lives. Everyone thinks they want to be famous until the paparazzi are in their face, and then they're asking, 'Just give me some privacy.' -- Linda Thompson
Once I'm on my feet i realize escape might not be so simple, panic begins to set in. i can't stay here. flight is essential but i can't let my fear show. Winning means fame and fortune, losing mean certain death, The Hunger Games have begun . . . -- Suzanne Collins
The biggest obstacle facing girls is education, education, education. There are too many kids who think high school is a pit stop to fame and fortune. I want girls in this country to think education is the coolest, most important thing they could ever do in their lives. -- Michelle Obama
Much of the fire with him [Ben Hogan] was lit by Byron Nelson, who came from the same town - the same caddie yard - and achieved fame and fortune several years ahead of Ben and who, as a kid, had always been popular and better liked than Ben. No puzzle at all. -- Dan Jenkins
I liked reading and working out my ideas in the midst of that endless crowd walking in and out of the (library) looking for something. I, too, was seeking fame and fortune by sitting at the end of a long golden table next to the sets of American authors on the open shelves. -- Alfred Kazin
I told Clinton I want him to rush for 2,000 yards. And I want our team to go to the Super Bowl and win it. I've been there and not won it. It's really simple for me. You get stats, fame and fortune, but if you don't end up with the ring you're never satisfied. -- Shaun Alexander
Adam Smith was not a big fan of the pursuit of fame and fortune. His view of what we truly want, of what really makes us happy, cuts to the core of things. It takes him only twelve words to get to the heart of the matter: Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely. -- Russ Roberts
Ben's Mr. Market allegory may seem out-of-date in today's investment world, in which most professionals and academicians talk of efficient markets, dynamic hedging and betas. Their interest in such matters is understandable, since techniques shrouded in mystery clearly have value to the purveyor of investment advice. After all, what witch doctor has ever achieved fame and fortune by simply advising 'Take two aspirins'? -- Warren Buffett
Views of women, on one side, as inwardly directed toward home and family and notions of men, on the other, as outwardly striving toward fame and fortune have resounded throughout literature and in the texts of history, biology, and psychology until they seem uncontestable. Such dichotomous views defy the complexities of individuals and stifle the potential for people to reveal different dimensions of themselves in various settings. -- Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy. -- Erika Slezak
Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money. -- John Fahey
I want it all. Fame, fortune and all the commercials there are to do. -- Evelyn Ashford
I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people. -- Lionel Richie
That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke. -- Mike Tyson
I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life. -- Drew Barrymore
I'd pick fortune over fame any day. -- Asher Roth
Fame and fortune, how empty they can be. -- Elvis Presley
Fame for the lames, fortune for the brains. -- T.F. Hodge
Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune. -- Friedrich Schiller
Nothing but pain, stuck in this game, searching for fortune and fame. -- Tupac Shakur
Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike. -- P. N. Elrod
In the quest for fortune and fame...don't forget about the simple things. -- India.Arie
Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don't have a happy home. -- Ava Gardner
Fame and fortune are calling. Are we taking the call or blocking the number? -- Nicole Richie
I've gained fans, fame, fortune, but I don't feel different. Am I supposed to? -- Kristin Cast
You will be tested as a leader....You may be tested with success, fame, and fortune. -- Greg Laurie
Fame & fortune come with a price that fame finds insulting and fortune can't afford to pay back. -- Dean Cavanagh
The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition. -- Luc de Clapiers
Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame. -- Walter Wykes
No matter how much money, fame, and fortune you have, it doesn't mean sh** if it's not connected with love. -- Adam Lambert
Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim. -- Bob Dylan
When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds. -- Charles Bukowski
And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich. -- Pablo Picasso
What is Fortune, what is Fame? Futile gold and phantom name- Riches buried in a cave, Glory written on a grave. -- Henry Van Dyke
If you think that material success will bring you happiness, relationships, people, places, things, fame, fortune, you definitely should not practice tantra. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes. -- Anthony Trollope
I wasn't interested in fame or fortune. I was interested in being an actor and being creative. I was very adamant about that. -- Abbie Cornish
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past. -- Bodhidharma
O Woman - Allah has made you the Queen of Piety and Modesty, Don't belittle yourself to be the slave of unlawful admiration and mortal fame & fortune. -- Ayisha Tabbassum
If we have youth, beauty, blessed gifts, strength, if we find fame, fortune, favor, fulfillment, it is easy to be nice, to turn a warm heart to the world. -- Oliver Sacks

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