Celebrities Quotes
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And we talked of girls, and dropping bombs on Rome, And thought of the quiet dead and the loud celebrities Exhorting us to slaughter.
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The Pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split secondcomics, picnic tables, men's trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators,Coke bottlesall the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried so hard not to notice at all.
Andy Warhol— Quoted in AndyWarhol and Pat Hackett POPism:TheWarhol'60s (1980).
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities, such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. The result would be an Encyclopedia of Error.
john acton— Letter to Mary Gladstone (24 April 1881)
There were lots of celebrities at my fight. I heard through the grapevine Michael Caine was one...and not a lot of people know that!
ricky hatton— Ricky Hatton [1]
I lived in a town called New Canaan, which is just outside of Connecticut, where they are far too snobby to even mention celebrities. Many American towns are famous for things like, "See the World's Largest Ball of String!" I think my town's would probably have to be "Most Pretentious People".
katherine heigl— About New Canaan, her hometown, in an interview with FHM (October 2000)
Are you trying to tell me that there was a time before celebrities?
kerry jackson— Radio From Hell (September 6, 2005)
Chefs aren't celebrities: they're chefs.
elton john— Ridiculing the idea of "celebrity chefs"; quoted in the Evening Standard, Tue 1 May 2012, p.16
There's just something a little bit unseemly to me that Chelsea's out there calling up celebrities, saying support my mom and, apparently she's also calling these super delegates.
david shuster— David Shuster: Chelsea Being "Pimped Out?", Feb 7, 2008 (YouTube): On Chelsea Clinton campaigning for her mother.
At some point in my life I realized I knew only celebrities, I didn't know any real people. I think it was a master stroke of Fate that in researching the greatest celebrity of them all, I would at last be meeting real people, finding them more extraordinary than celebrities; fascinated by them all and enjoying enduring friendships with some.
elaine dundy— Life Itself (2001)
I've been offered a lot of things that celebrities do that I wouldn't do -- like perfumes, lines of clothing and this that and the other. But this [children's book] is right up my alley.
gloria estefan— Reuters News Agency (October 10, 2005)
People just liked Hassan, the way people like fast food and celebrities.
john green— An Abundance of Katherines, Colin Singleton (2006, p. 62)
Very few people ever meet celebrities. All we really know is what we read about them and the most memorable lines are jokes. That's how we tend to define what we think of a public figure.
robert orben— Janet Cawley (September 22, 1988) "The Joke's On George, Mike, Dan and Lloyd", Chicago Tribune, p. 23.
Pricasso can paint with either hand, but prefers using his nether regions. He has been painting this way for seven years and has painted ordinary people, celebrities and politicians.
— The Star staff (28 September 2012). "Pricasso's the name, painting the game". The Star (South Africa: Independent Online): p. 3.
Society is celebrity-based and we are determined to use [celebrities'] voices to make sure no one forgets there are issues over the use of animals. celebrities can be great for our cause and can really make people sit up and think for the first time about animal abuse.
ingrid newkirk— "Ingrid Newkirk — taking on the critics", Animal Liberation NSW [10]
celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.
gore vidal— Ch. 18: To Do Well What Should Not Be Done at All, p. 311
celebrities always get a lot of interest and the passing of well-known figures makes people want to learn more about them. Despite that, some of the more traditional aspects of British life, from the Grand National to the royal birth, have generated many Google searches and will be remembered as events that have characterized the year.
— Claudine Beaumont, one of Google's workers, "Facebook tops Google searches for UK in 2013", December 17, 2013.
