Joseph Priestley Quotes

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

The higher your profile, the more people want you.

To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.

It doesn't seem right for anybody to get so much attention.

Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.

They can gas me, but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do.

There are stars out there who would die to have this much exposure.

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

I'm still trying to get over the fact that my name is being mentioned with people like Brad Pitt.

You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.

Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?

Everyone wants to get a piece of me.

All fame is dangerous: Good, bringeth Envy; Bad, Shame.

I never envy the guys who get attention for partying too much or behaving badly.

Whether couched in terms of envy, admiration, or derision, celebrity fascination begins as an exercise in imagining what it would be like to lead a more carefree and pleasurable life.

People like to gossip about people who are successful.

I really look up to Louis C.K. I think he's great. And obviously he's very popular, more popular than me. Years ago, I was thinking, naively, it would be great to be that popular. And then I thought about it and then I realized that, with his money and his level of notoriety, he has all of the same emotions that I do.

People always want to compare their hands to mine. Pretty much everywhere I go.

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.

If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known.

Haters can't see me, but them b-tches still looking for me.

Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.

ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.