Pop diva Britney Spears recently figured in the news again. I'm not into celebrity-watching alright, but she was all over cable television so how could I miss the news that she was taken to the Cedars-Sinai Hospital last Thursday night for what one source called a "complete psychotic meltdown"? She actually joins an already long, and still growing, list of showbiz celebrities whose success, fame and fortune worked more like a curse than a charm for them.
At 55, going 56 this year, you could probably say that I've been around long enough to have confirmed from experience the great truth in the old saw that "there is a price for everything." On this note, here's a short collection of quotes on the subject of fame:
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident and money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character. -Unknown
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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. -Vicki Baum
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A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. -Fred A. Allen
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People should realize we're jerks just like them. -Edward De Bono
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He said "What did fame ever do for me? I'm still broke!" I said "What did your fame ever do for anyone else?" -Raphie Frank
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Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more valuable? Success or failure: which is more destructive? If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. -Lao Tzu
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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man. -Thomas Carlyle
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Fame is a food that dead men eat. -Henry Austin Dobson
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Stardom isn't a profession; it's an accident. -Lauren Bacall
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In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. -Andy Warhol
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