Popularity Quotes - Page 6

• All language is a popularity contest.

  Erin McKean

  Language, Contests, Popularity Contest

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• I have never been over concerned or obsessed with opinion polls or popularity polls. I think a leader who is, is a weak leader. Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I'm meaningless.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Thinking, Wind, Leader

  "The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew". Book by Lee Kuan Yew, www.aljazeera.com. 1997.

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• If you look at the success of snowboarding in the Winter Games and how that's brought a more youthful edge to the Olympics in general, they don't have that with the Summer Games. They don't have anything that's drawing in a younger viewership. To be honest, I think they need skateboarding more than we need them. Skateboarding's popularity is solidified for the most part in a lot of countries.

  Tony Hawk

  Summer, Country, Winter

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• Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

  Washington Allston

  Voters, Reputation, Suffrage

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• And if the problem [with contraception] is promiscuity, then why does the immense popularity of Viagra go unchecked? Doesn't it make more sense to leave the bullets out of the gun than to try to avoid being shot? Especially when the gun is an old musket, and you have to clean it out and tamp down gunpowder, melt down scraps of lead and pour it into a mold, wait for it to cool - only to have it take forever to finally go off?

  Margaret Cho

  Gun, Waiting, Forever

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• I think politics in general are just like a popularity contest but McCain is just... old.

  D. L. Hughley

  Thinking, Contests, Mccain

  "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", January 17, 2008.

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• People in California seem to age at a different rate than the rest of the country. Maybe it's the passion for diet and exercise, maybe the popularity of cosmetic surgery. Or maybe we're afflicted with such a horror of aging that we've halted the process psychically.

  Sue Grafton

  Country, Passion, Exercise

  Sue Grafton (1988). “"E" is for Evidence”, p.92, Macmillan

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• The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.

  Washington Allston

  Art, Doors, Genius

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.171, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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• Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige, my friend.

  Edward Norton

  Cousin, Littles, Prestige

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• I wish to walk in such a line as will give most general satisfaction.

  George Washington

  Giving, Wish, Lines

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1837). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. II. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the American revolution: (v. 3) June, 1775-July, 1776. (v. 4) July, 1776-July] 1777. (v. 5) July, 1777-July, 1778. (v. 6) July, 1778-March, 1780. (v. 7) March, 1780-April, 1781. (v. 8) April, 1781-December, 1783”, p.200

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• What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

  David Brin

  Elusive

  David Brin (2010). “Startide Rising”, p.195, Spectra

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• We have to unclutter our brains from worries that maybe people don't like us. Women tend to worry about popularity; it doesn't matter if they like you. They need to respect you. They need to show that respect for you in your pay check. And that needs to be okay.

  Mika Brzezinski

  People, Worry, Brain

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• The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It's so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that's where you start to cheat yourself - and your fans, in the end - because there's an inherent dishonesty in pandering and dishing up what everyone's expecting.

  The Edge

  Trying, Dishonesty, Easy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.

  William Butler Yeats

  Ideas, Needs, Stories

  William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein (2007). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me.

  David Harsanyi

  Mystery, Usefulness

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• Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good.

  Christopher Ricks

  Rocks, Genius, Fields

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• First I found [Elvis] to be a gentleman and then a gentle man. I found he could be sensitive to small issues. For someone of his stature there is very little for him to notice, ya know? He's so insulated by the people who surround him and by his own popularity. And yet Elvis will still find little things. He'll take the time to be gentle with people.

  Bill Bixby

  Men, Issues, People

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• Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that English is becoming the world's universal tongue: English-speaking natives don't care how badly others speak English as long as they speak it. French, once considered likely to become the world's lingua franca, has lost popularity because those who are born speaking it reject this liberal attitude and become depressed, insulted or insufferable when their language is ill used.

  Russell Baker

  Attitude, Speak English, Long

  Russell Baker (1990). “There's a country in my cellar”, William Morrow & Company

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• I think particularly in music, popularity os a very fickle thing. You're only as good as your last song.

  Tom Odell

  Song, Thinking, Last Song

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You "have a date," you "go out with a date," you "groan because there isn't a decent date in town." A situation defined as containing a girl - or boy - of the right social background, the right degree of popularity, a little higher than your own.

  Margaret Mead

  Girl, Boys, Men

  "Male and Female". Study by Margaret Mead, 1949.

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• The vagaries of the industry and show business itself would not lead one to conclude a lengthy career - because things change. Popularities come and go. The tragedy of it is that somebody like Robin Williams should suffer from that, and be driven to commit suicide. If ever there was an untimely, unfair death, it was him.

  Chris Stein

  Suicide, Careers, Suffering

  Source: time.com

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• There are movies where I've walked onto the set and felt, "This is home," and I'm confident in myself and my work, but that was my first experience of live TV. At that stage, Friends was at its unassailable height of popularity and brilliance.

  Olivia Williams

  Home, Brilliance

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I love that vinyl is actually growing in popularity, and that there are so many great record stores.

  Moby

  Records, Growing, Vinyl

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• It's so much worse to regret something you never did. It's often worth running through your fears to their logical conclusion to help disperse them. One footnote - if life has taught me anything it's to trust the shy people. Popularity means a lot of people like you a bit, you have broad appeal. But who wants broad appeal? Interesting people are always a bit niche. Remember what Steven Patrick Morrissey said: "It takes guts to be gentle and kind.".

  John Robins

  Running, Regret, Mean

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• I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Believe, Differences

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