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For professional athletes, the motives for cheating generally are more obvious: money, fame, and often a low likelihood of being caught. But why would a middle- or back-of-the-pack runner lie or cheat in a race that doesn't even matter?
Mary Pilon
Lie
Money
Matter
Cheating
Runner
Would
Athletes
More
Generally
Cheat
Likelihood
Obvious
Caught
Motives
Fame
Often
Middle
Being
Race
Low
Professional
Professional Athletes
Even
Why
I've had the fame and the joy of getting laughter - those are gifts.
Mary Tyler Moore
Joy
Laughter
Those
Gifts
Had
Fame
Getting
It's funny - nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don't have the money to hide from it.
Matt LeBlanc
Funny
People
Money
Hide
Nowadays
Paparazzi
Chased
Fame
Get
Famous
I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don't want any of the other stuff.
Matthew Broderick
Money
Other
Adoration
Stuff
Fame
Any
Just
Want
Fame, you know, it's like a handgun - in the wrong hands, it's dangerous.
Matthew Morrison
You
Dangerous
Wrong
Like
Know
Fame
Handgun
Hands
What people don't realize is that fame, whatever your worst experience in high school, when you were being bullied by those ten kids in high school, fame is that, but on a global scale, where you're being bullied by millions of people constantly.
Megan Fox
You
Experience
People
School
Whatever
Those
Worst
Kids
Scale
High
Constantly
High School
Ten
Global
Were
Bullied
Fame
Being
Where
Realize
Your
Millions
Millions Of People
I think fame is hard in any capacity. It's so fleeting; it's not anything that you can really grab.
Melissa Rauch
You
Think
Fame
Grab
Any
Anything
Capacity
Really
Fleeting
Hard
Fame is useful in certain ways, because it helps you get more roles.
Mia Wasikowska
You
Ways
More
Because
Fame
Get
Roles
Certain
Useful
Helps
Before he played CIA Director Saul Berenson on 'Homeland,' a much younger Mandy Patinkin gained some fame as Inigo Montoya, a legendary swordsman, in 'The Princess Bride.'
Michael Hayden
Director
CIA
Before
Some
He
Princess
Fame
Legendary
Gained
Younger
Much
Bride
Homeland
Played
Saul
Fame makes me feel wanted and loved, anybody wants that.
Michael Hutchence
Me
Feel
Makes
Fame
Anybody
Wanted
Loved
Wants
All the best reasons for going into politics never really change: the desire for glory and fame and the chance to do something that really matters, that will make life better for a lot of people.
Michael Ignatieff
Life
Politics
Best
Change
People
Better
Will
Matters
Something
Never
Make
Glory
Lot
Fame
Going
Really
Reasons
Desire
Chance
The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing to consider an option other than lying.
Michael Musto
Impossible
Made
Other
Lying
Consider
Those
Folks
More
More And More
Fact
Spotlight
Fame
Than
Option
Difference
Place
Which
Pausing
Ignore
Even
Recently
Fame changes everything. When you're well-known, you're expected to be different. Some people assume you must have a yacht and four homes. Or that you're famous because you are 'A Decent Man'.
Michael Palin
You
Man
People
Some People
Assume
Changes
Everything
Must
Be Different
Some
Yacht
Because
Fame
Expected
Decent
Decent Man
Famous
Different
Homes
Four
My kids are not known, and I think that is very important. So far they have lived a normal life, and will continue to do so. I feel they should have the possibility to live a free life without the burden of fame I have created.
Michael Schumacher
Life
Burden
Will
Free
Important
Live
Think
Kids
Possibility
Free Life
Feel
Known
Without
Continue
Normal
Normal Life
Fame
Very
Far
Created
Should
Lived
My goal had been to win a championship, work toward the Hall of Fame, have my jersey retired by the team and I'd go in as a lifelong New York Giant, but I'm now resigned to the fact that this won't happen.
Michael Strahan
Work
Win
Giant
Fact
Lifelong
Had
Retired
Toward
New
Hall
Go
Been
Goal
Fame
York
New York
Happen
Team
Now
Jersey
Resigned
Championship
Fame, in Trumpian fashion, is war. You are expected to defend your fame; many people want to take it from you.
Michael Wolff
War
Fashion
You
People
Take
Fame
Expected
Want
Your
Many
Defend
The clock has been turned back on racial progress in America, though scarcely anyone seems to notice. All eyes are fixed on people like Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey who have defied the odds and achieved great power, wealth, and fame.
Michelle Alexander
Great
Eyes
People
Progress
Wealth
Power
Odds
Back
Defied
Though
Has-Been
Obama
Scarcely
Seems
Great Power
Like
Been
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Clock
Fame
Fixed
America
Achieved
Anyone
Barack
Barack Obama
Turned
Racial
Notice
Who
There are three things on my piano - my Best Villainess award, my Grammy, and my Rock N' Roll Hall Of Fame statue.
Michelle Phillips
Best
Three
Statue
Piano
Hall
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
Fame
Roll
Grammy
Award
Things
I spent so long studying really hard to become a fine actor, but threw it all away because I got the adulation and the fame so easily.
Mickey Rourke
Long
Become
Spent
Easily
Fine
Threw
Adulation
Studying
Because
Got
Fame
Really
Hard
Actor
Away
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not a public democratic organization; it's a private club basically. It's like a private golf club and they decide who they're going to let in the club.
Micky Dolenz
Organization
Club
Like
Democratic
Hall
Rock
Rock And Roll
Private
Fame
Roll
Going
Decide
Golf
Golf Club
Public
Who
Basically
Part of me sees myself as talented, and the other part sees me as strange. Ideas get stuck in your head and nothing changes them. Not even fame.
Mika
Myself
Me
Strange
Nothing
Other
Changes
Sees
Stuck
Part
Head
Talented
Ideas
Fame
Get
Them
Your
Even
It's nice to be recognized, but at the same time, there are always consequences. You may get fame, but you lose anonymity. You lose a certain sense of who you are.
Mike Colter
Time
You
Lose
Sense
Nice
Consequences
Recognized
Anonymity
Always
Fame
Get
Same
May
Same Time
Certain
Who
With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.
Mike Myers
Alone
You
Intimacy
Between
Also
Fame
Very
Intensity
Much
I sort of ride the fence on that whole steroid era issue. I don't have a definite opinion like some of my fellow Hall of Famers. Some of the guys were very, very adamant about a person being associated with steroids: 'They'll never be in the Hall of Fame. If they are, I'll never come back.'
Mike Schmidt
Ride
Back
Definite
Some
About
Guys
Never
Come
Like
Steroid
Steroids
Fellow
Sort
Hall
Opinion
Era
Issue
Fence
Were
Fame
Very
Person
Being
Whole
Adamant
Associated
The only thing fame has changed about me is that I'm more self-aware when I go out in public.
Miles Teller
Me
Changed
Out
About
More
Only
Go
Fame
The Only Thing
Public
Thing
A lot of times, people think that it doesn't make sense for people to be depressed when they have everything, a loving husband, a successful career, fame and fortune. I wanted to make this point that profound despair can strike anybody.
Miriam Toews
People
Husband
Sense
Think
Despair
Strike
Everything
Point
Make
Lot
Fame
Fame And Fortune
Times
Times People
Anybody
Wanted
Loving
Depressed
Successful
Fortune
Profound
Career
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