Wired Magazine article http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.08/colbert.html (14 August 2006)
Context: Get your own entry in an encyclopedia... In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an expert in five minutes. Special bonus: You can edit your own entry to make yourself seem even smarter.
“In the future, everybody will be world famous for 15 minutes.”
1968 - 1974
This quotation has produced a common cliché about fame in pop-culture which is called "15 minutes of fame"; it has often been paraphrased or misquoted in various ways
Source: Catalogue of an exhibition of his art in Stockholm, Sweden (1968)
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Source: The Pure Weight of the Heart (1998), P. 332.
“We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in…”
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When asked about this quote, he would corrupt it intentionally, including:
1968 - 1974