celebrity quotes

Ex-Professor Moriartyof mathematical celebrity†isthe Napoleon of crime,Watson.

-Doyle, SirArthur Conan
  The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes,'The Final Problem'.

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

-Kissinger, HenryAlfred
Quoted in Reader's Digest,  Apr1985.

Being a celebrity is like being raped, and there's absolutely nothing a player can do about it.

-McEnroe,John Patrick
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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