Americans once expected parents to raise their children in accordance with the dominant cultural messages. Once the chorus of cultural values was full of ministers, teachers, neighbors, leaders. They demanded more conformity, but offered more support. Now the messengers are violent cartoon characters, rappers and celebrities selling sneakers.
Ellen GoodmanA celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognised.
Fred AllenThe nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
Henry KissingerWhen once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.
Samuel JohnsonI guess there can't be much in being a celebrity after all.
Walt DisneyIn the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.
Andy WarholThe public fascination with such celebrities, though not technically a cult, leads to a level of idolatry, hence the quasi-religious use of the term
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