"A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services."

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Daniel J. Boorstin

#Names Quotes #Dignity Quotes #Fame Quotes

“Take your passion and make it happen.”

Source : Song: Flashdance... What A Feeling, Album: What a Feelin', 1983
“How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.”
“I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless.”
“What men have given the name of friendship to is nothing but an alliance, a reciprocal accommodation of interest, an exchange of good offices; in it is nothing but a system of traffic, in which self-love always proposes to itself some advantage.”
“A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.”
“How the miracle of our meeting Shone there and sang, I didn't want to return From there to anywhere. Happiness instead of duty Was bitter delight to me. Not obliged to speak to anyone, I spoke for a long while. Let passions stifle lovers, Demanding answers, We, my dear, are only souls At the limits of the world.”
“If the human being is condemned and restricted to perform the same functions over and over again, he will not even be a good ant, not to mention a good human being.”
“By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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