Rihanna

There's a long way to fall when you pretend that you're so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that's protected by fame or success. It's scary, and it's the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

American Musician

Eminem

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.

American Rapper

Alice Walker

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

American Author

Michelle Obama

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life's work shows our children that we don't chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

American First Lady

Marilyn Monroe

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

American Actress

Drew Barrymore

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.

Bad Bunny

The fame isn't important to me. It's a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

Puerto Rican Singer

Dante Alighieri

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Italian Poet

Edmund Burke

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Irish Statesman

Henry David Thoreau

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Often associated with positive accomplishments that get public attention.

Achievement Link

Can sometimes relate to negative actions that receive widespread notice.

Not Always Positive

The word can suggest different levels of renown, from local to global.

Context Matters

Used as a verb to describe the act of making someone famous.

Active Creation

Refers to a specific event or action that triggers a person's fame.

Catalyst Event

Often describes how individuals have been made famous by history.

Historical Figure

 sometimes, guys, they die on the vine with all of that talent, and one of the things we've had, all of us, is fame -- I think the best kind of fame, because you can take it off. I've been all around the world, and there will be a thousand kids crying out your name, and it's such a weird, visceral experience. It's like, it's disorienting.

Rodney Mullen: Pop an...

 of fame and recognition and praise. And one of these fates is objectively seen by the world as bad, and the other one is objectively seen by the world as good, but your subconscious is completely incapable of discerning the difference between bad and good. The only thing that it is capable of feeling

Success, failure and the...

 This is what they're most famed for. They have this luminous lure that hangs over the top of their head, which is really characteristic and it's basically this fleshy lump which has lots of bacteria in it, which is able to illuminate and then that attracts in all their prey and they're able to

Deep Sea Anglerfish Sex...

 There she told the “I was a conductor on the Underground Railroad, and I can say what many others cannot. I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.” As her fame grew, various friends and allies helped her in the fight

The breathtaking courage...

 This massive scale and growing populous necessitated advancements in Roman engineering. Aqueducts were constructed, which increased the public's access to water, helped improve public health, and paved the way for Rome's famed bath houses.

Ancient Rome 101 PIPE...

 brother joined a band of aristocrats seeking independence from Spain when his brother died in a shipwreck Bolivar went on to invest the whole family fortune in the revolution and as his fame grew he was asked to help revolutions as far

The impact of Simón...

 Totally predictable. And you don't want to be like that. You need to enter every conversation assuming that you have something to learn. The famed therapist M. Scott Peck said that true listening requires a setting aside of oneself.

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways...

 Just like the millennials in that recent survey, many of our men when they were starting out as young adults really believed that fame and wealth and high achievement were what they needed to go after to have a good life.

Robert Waldinger: What...

 who are we being as we go back out into the world? And you know, I have a definition of success. For me, it's very simple. It's not about wealth and fame and power. It's about how many shining eyes I have around me.

The transformative power...

 it's an event this has brought the island worldwide fame

Fame