Quotes About Fame And Privacy

#1. I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small individual lives of men, are preferable to all this inflated macrocosmic activity.

Salman Rushdie

#2. I see as white people finding loopholes in the slavery laws.

Chris Rock

#3. They're hungry for something they know nothing about, but we, we know all too well that the price of fame is the loss of privacy.

David Sedaris

#4. Everyone had learned that it was worth giving up privacy for the merest possibility of fame, and the idea that only a private self was truly autonomous and free had be lost in the static of the airwaves.

Salman Rushdie

#5. No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.

Seneca The Younger

#6. Love, joy and peace for the world, that's what I want ... peace for the world and love.

Michael Jackson

#7. The Internet, my fickle friend, my two-faced enemy, what would life be like without you? Where else can I be anonymously anyone and yet, have no anonymity at all?

Susan Schussler

#8. I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.

David Schwimmer

#9. There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.

Zaha Hadid

#10. Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.

Paulo Coelho

#11. Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.

Cara Delevingne

#12. My eyes widen at
the sight of her. This is the girl
Boss Man is after? She looks like a
porcelain doll ... beat three times
with an ugly stick.

Victoria Scott

#13. Russia made a decisive contribution to the victory over Nazism. That's clear to every honest observer. So, therefore, in a certain manner, it is indeed part of the country's national psyche.

Dmitry Medvedev

#14. Oklahoma is the Bad Food Capital of the World, and Oklahoma City is as cheery as an opened casket. No one reads in that city, and bookstores are even rarer there than atheists.

Richard S. Wheeler

#15. I was suited for fame, and I mean that in the most non-egocentric way. I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.

John Travolta

#16. I am struck by how casually we as a nation react to the carnage in Iraq.

Charles B. Rangel

#17. The only way of really finding out a man's true character is to play golf with him. In no other walk of life does the cloven hoof so quickly display itself.

P.G. Wodehouse

#18. 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

#19. Go where your customers take you! For example, did you know that Sony's first product was a rice cooker? Since abandoning the rice cooker, it has merely managed to become the world's biggest consumer electronics company.

Naveen Jain

#20. Privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

Bob Dylan