"I don't think there's ever been anyone like me that's lasted. And I'm going to keep on lasting"
About this Quote
The subtext is defensive and strategic at once. “I don’t think there’s ever been anyone like me” reads as a preemptive rebuttal to the easy dismissal of her as a tabloid invention or a nepotism case study. Hilton’s persona has long been treated as a punchline, but the quote quietly flips the joke: if you all agreed I was fake, how did I outlast the people who mocked me? “Keep on lasting” is the mic drop, a refusal to beg for legitimacy from the very machine she helped feed.
Context matters. Hilton emerged at the early-2000s hinge point when celebrity became participatory: paparazzi, reality TV, nightclub culture, and the internet collapsing distance between audience and icon. She helped prototype the modern influencer economy - turning image into product before “personal brand” became LinkedIn gospel. Read today, the line is less arrogance than a thesis about attention as capital. She’s not promising reinvention; she’s promising persistence. In 2026 terms, that’s power.
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| Topic | Perseverance |
|---|---|
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Hilton, Paris. (n.d.). I don't think there's ever been anyone like me that's lasted. And I'm going to keep on lasting. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-dont-think-theres-ever-been-anyone-like-me-4643/
Chicago Style
Hilton, Paris. "I don't think there's ever been anyone like me that's lasted. And I'm going to keep on lasting." FixQuotes. Accessed February 2, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-dont-think-theres-ever-been-anyone-like-me-4643/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I don't think there's ever been anyone like me that's lasted. And I'm going to keep on lasting." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-dont-think-theres-ever-been-anyone-like-me-4643/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.









