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Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

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Aesop
Greek - Author
620 BC - 564 BC

I don't ever want it to be about me. A friend of mine told me, 'The difference between fame and notoriety is fame is when people know you, and notoriety is when people know your work.' The first one is not respectable, but the second one is, because that leaves a legacy.

Troy Baker

Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be remarked for their vices and follies than not be noticed at all!

Harry S. Truman

My show 'Fame: Not the Musical' is about the fact that fame is seen in two ways in our culture: either as a glittering bauble we desperately covet, or as a narrative of tragedy and despair. My own experience of fame is a third, mundane way, which often involves being mistaken for someone else - Ian Broudie from the Lightning Seeds, or Steve Wright.

David Baddiel

Fame, at one time, was associated with accomplishment, but in this day and age fame and notoriety have become confused.

Don Henley

Fame is one thing, notoriety is another.

Lana Turner

Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.

Ouida

Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

Neil Gaiman

You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.

Morgan Brittany

This year, notoriety got confused with fame, and the devil is down hearted because there is nothing left for him to claim.

Don Henley

What difference, if you are mistaken? For if I am mistaken, I am. For he who is not, assuredly cannot be mistaken; and therefore I am, if I am mistaken. Therefore because I am if I am mistaken, how am I mistaken that I am, when it is sure that I am, if I am mistaken.

Saint Augustine

I've always had this impression that notoriety came when you're trying to get notoriety.

Ariel Rechtshaid

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

George William Curtis

Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness. . . . For you see, greatness is a measure of one's spirit, not a result of one's rank in human affairs.

Sherman Glenn Finesilver

It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.

James Russell Lowell

NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.

Ambrose Bierce

Inquire often, but judge rarely, and thou wilt not often be mistaken.

William Penn

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