But he was famous for the number of times he miscalculated the distance, or his speed, or mistimed things, thereby meeting the asphalt with more than enough force to kill himself.
If there was one dimension of disappointment that one could detect in Chinua Achebe, it was the fact that he was famous for one great book when in fact he had written a whole series of great books.
But The Donald is rich (although how rich is in dispute), and he's famous and he's powerful.
He doesn't think his hard-won sobriety had anything to do with the show coming to an end, but now that he's famous, he can't see himself falling back on his former career as a mortgage broker.
Moreover, surely he is a touch too impulsive, or certainly unpredictable, for conservative tastes: he is famous for having resigned on three occasions from ministerial posts, the last time in September last year when he was interior minister in the Socialist-led government of his friend, Lionel Jospin.
"He was a famous celebrity but he acted like the guy next door, " continued.
He's famous for saying he stayed in coaching because had he left, "it would leave college football in the hands of the Jackie Sherrills and Barry Switzers, " two coaches known for their winning ways, and for breaking NCAA rules along the way.
He has said he became famous purely because of "working with Rajesh Khanna in Anand".
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He was famous for tearing recklessly over bumps in the slopes, balancing himself in mid-air.
He became famous for his personal, conversational writing style, his offbeat anecdotes and several timely investment forecasts.
James Michener was a big man in more ways than the one for which he was famous.
It may be that eventually Freddy Heineken became a little bored with the beer he made famous.
In his playing days he was famous for scoring in Denmark's 1992 European Championship final win over Germany.
By applying many thin coats of this adapted glaze, he achieved the smoky shadowing he became famous for.
Garrick's fortune came from his management of the Drury Lane theatre, but he was famous because of his acting.
Floyd Brown had worked around the fringes of the conservative movement for years before he became famous, in 1988.
In fact one comes to mind (at a Dell competitor) that is so bad he is famous for it.
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He became famous in the late 1960s for suspense thrillers such as "La Femme Infidele" (1969) and "Le Boucher" (1971).
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Today, he says famous directors like Francis Ford Coppola , James Cameron and Robert Rodriquez are shooting films in digital format.
He was famous for his fiction from the Foundation series to I Robot, but his science books were his masterpieces of lucidity.
He is famous for challenging golfers to make smart, precise shots which earned him a devilish reputation among Professional Golfers Association (PGA) pros.
But appointing Giggs would also be a marketing masterstroke as you could argue he is more famous than the country he once captained.
Throughout the 1970s he became famous for adopting a number of different characters and personae, from glam-rock king Ziggy to the so-called Thin White Duke.
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By then he was famous enough in the amateur astronomy world that some other amateur astronomers raised money to send him to Vanderbilt to study astronomy.
He was famous during his playing days for epic battles with Swedish great Jan-Ove Waldner, the first table-tennis millionaire who at one point owned a chain of bars in China.
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As president of LG's telecom unit for eight years starting in 1998, he was famous for battling the loss of mobile subscribers by corralling employees from across the chaebol to sell his subscription plans.
Though Mr. O'Hara's once-popular novels and short stories are no longer widely read, he was famous in 1940 for his well-tuned ear, and the characters in "Pal Joey" sound like they stepped out of a real-life alley after throwing a couple of punches.
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