“A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.”
Daniel J. Boorstin (1914–2004) American historian
Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961), p. 57.
“A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.”
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
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