Matthew Sweet Quotes

Bono is chairman and founding member of Over-Achievers Anonymous. He has an irrepressible drive to be great. He wants to achieve it all, which actually makes him very vulnerable.

The more name value I have, the better. The more undeniable I am, the better. Then I can get what I want.

I set a Google Alert for myself, and now I'm seeing people say my music influenced them and how great it is all the time. Sometimes I listen to this stuff that's supposed to be influenced by me, and I can't hear myself in it. But I'd rather they say it than not.

I honestly don't think I sought fame. It wasn't something I courted or wanted, particularly.

When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do.

I'm constantly doing new stuff, and I want it to be received really well. Who knows what's ego, what's business, what's artistic. It all shifts on a day-to-day basis.

He [Marquis de Lafayette] has a canine appetite for popularity and fame.

Theodore Roosevelt would go to Halifax for half a chance to show off and to Hell for a whole one.

A lot of people say I was brilliant. I wasn't. I was an opportunist: a young entrepreneur who saw things and took advantage.

You have to be careful of social climbers. There are a lot of potholes out there.

If you chase fame, you make bad choices. Being famous isn't interesting.

If you want to be popular and famous, you can do it; it's dead easy if you have that ego desire. But most of my ego desires as far as being famous and successful were fulfilled a long time ago.

At Harvard, where students tend to respond to real-world celebrities with the vague sense that they could do a better job themselves, the recipe for celebrity is complex.

We need people who dream impossible things, who maybe fail, sometimes succeed, but in any case who have that ambition.

I set out very calculatedly to become known. The only thing I maybe miscalculated was how easy it would be.

Being humble is one of the most important things, and not being afraid to put yourself out there is important. I think really successful chefs put themselves out there on a daily basis.

You have to be able to compete, put yourself out there, make yourself vulnerable, to go for something that you want.

My filthy little secret is that I've always wanted to be famous and I don't get nervous being on TV.

I'm just a skinny kid from Glennville, Georgia. I'm going to the Hall of Fame. Not to the Hall of Very Good. The Hall of Fame.

I'm just excited to see myself on billboards. I'm getting ready to be a star.

For me, I had that reputation as being a guy that did a lot of stuff early on in my career, but to me, at the time I needed to do that in order to be noticed. Eventually, my style evolved and started making it to where every match wasn't about a dive outside of the ring.

Everybody wants attention, more or less. I just want a lot.

My goal when I first started in the WWE was to stand out.

I think a lot of people confuse what we do with fame or wanting fame... which is not necessarily true.

Ultimately, at the end of the day, taking a chance on 'Power' is taking a chance on me.