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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstrac

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. – Susan Sontag

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AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. – Susan Sontag

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We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters. – Susan Sontag

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A lot of people these days are not music lovers – they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in. – Shirley Manson

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Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool. – Bill OReilly

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There are people who appear in the magazines and I dont know who they are. Ive never seen anything theyve done and their careers are over already. Theyre famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold. – Matt Damon

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When youre rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. Ive talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing Ive ever wanted to do. – Stevie Nicks

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