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Famous Quotes

"I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story."
Beth Ditto on Famous

"Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."
Andy Warhol on Famous
"I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous."
Walt Disney on Famous
"What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous."
Voltaire on Famous
"We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free."
Jiddu Krishnamurti on Famous
"Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable."
Ambrose Bierce on Famous

"My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character - I am that character... It's a complicated bag of tools I acquired, and I've put them all to work onstage."
"A few years back, when my style was 'punk grandma,' I picked up an amazing pair of sandals - orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I've given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more '1980s substitute teacher gone wild.'"
"I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had a flair for fashion and style. They were passions I kept secret because I didn't understand I could love clothes and hair and makeup and still like girls."
"Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products."
"I just like food too much, and I don't want to change. I spent so much of childhood trying to change, and I just got sick of it... I don't want to look like Britney Spears, I just don't want to. She's hideous."