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Famous Quotes

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"I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law."

Stephen Colbert on Famous

More quotes about 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

More quotes by Stephen Colbert

  • "I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?"

  • "No, my mom kind of led me toward acting. She wanted to be an actress when she was younger. That made me interested in it when I was a kid, because she and I are very close."

  • "I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry."

  • "I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way."

  • "In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'"

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