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Celebrity Culture

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Celebrity Culture

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A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services - Daniel J. Boorstin

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognised - Fred Allen

You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It’s not that important - Victoria Beckham

Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end, and in the case of Michael Jackson, to the kiddy pool - Bill Maher

If you say a modern celebrity is an adulturer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you’ve read his/her autobiography - P. J. O’Rourke If you say a modern celebrity is an adulturer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you’ve read his/her autobiography - P. J. O’Rourke

I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a ce-lebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends. - Moby

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it’s their fault. - Henry Kissinger

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has re-placed the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth. - C. Wright Mills

Oh, I wouldn’t want to go on a date with a female celebrity. I’d rather go on a date with a real woman. - Casper Van Dien

Being a celebri-ty doesn’t even seem to keep the fleas off our dogs - and if being a celebrity won’t give me an ad-vantage over a couple of fleas, then I guess there can’t be much in being a celebrity after all.- Walt Disney

I’m not a celebrity. I’m inten-tionally and defi-antly not a celebri-ty. I don’t have any interest in it. I don’t have any talent for it. I keep my per-sonal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can. - Charlie Kaufman

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