Celebrity

Celebrity is fame and public attention.

Quotes

 * Celebrity worship syndrome … is indicative of a kind of a complete dissolution of the self in favor of another. … Whether it's a mob mentality or a desire to be controlled by something higher than you, these cases are indicative of how charisma can replace the ego.
 * Jack Gleeson, Speech at Oxford Union (2014)


 * Celebrity is life in the third person.
 * Siri Hustvedt, The Blazing World (2014), "Harriet Burden: Notebook D". London: Sceptre, 2014, p. 346


 * I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.
 * Jesus in Gospel of John 5:43


 * “Now celebrities are not ordinary people,” says Clement. “The world treats them differently and, therefore, they react differently.”
 * Elizabeth J. Rosenthal, Birdwatcher: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson (2008), p. 293