Sentence examples for be famous for doing from inspiring English sources

To be famous for doing something good.

"Maybe I'd like to be famous for doing something good, but not for making movies," she said.

Mr. Young still wants to be famous, but he has decided that he would like to be famous for doing something artistically worthwhile.

After all, you can not be famous for doing nothing.

There the police could do what they were famous for doing when under pressure to produce results: kill people.

We don't even know if the Russians know, since they are famous for doing things off the books.

"Even back in the late sixties and early seventies, we didn't play for five hours on many nights, despite being famous for doing that.

He had been confident that he would seduce them, as he was famous for doing with students and colleagues, by means of generosity, immodesty, flamboyant declarations, sodden affection.

"The celebrity of riches and being famous for doing nothing is a cycle and I hope one day there will be a cultural rebellion," she said.

So here's to the happy couple, both only famous for being the siblings of people who themselves are famous for doing literally nothing!

Joe Gould was a Village character who lived on handouts and was famous for doing seagull imitations at parties and for a multivolume compendium of conversations that he had supposedly overheard called the "Oral History of Our Time".