Popularity Quotes - Page 19

• Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.

  H. L. Mencken

  Marriage, Husband, Men

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• I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dream, Writing, Wanted

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• I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Children, War

  Bertrand Russell (1998). “Autobiography”, p.240, Psychology Press

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• Please repeat: influence is not popularity.

  Brian Solis

  Social Media, Influence, Please

  "Please Repeat: Influence Is Not Popularity". www.briansolis.com. August 11, 2010.

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• Judging by the the movie's enduring popularity, the message that stupidity is redemption is clearly what a lot of Americans want to hear.

  Jonathan Rosenbaum

  Judging, Stupidity, Redemption

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• The popularity of the paranormal, oddly enough, might even be grounds for encouragement. I think that the appetite for mystery, the enthusiasm for that which we do not understand, is healthy and to be fostered. It is the same appetite which drives the best of true science, and it is an appetite which true science is best qualified to satisfy.

  Richard Dawkins

  Encouragement, Thinking, Healthy

  "Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder". Richard Dimbleby Lecture on BBC1 Television, www.edge.org. November 12, 1996.

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• Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Faith, Character, Conformity

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• The popularity of conspiracy theories is explained by people's desire to believe that there is - some group of folks who know what they're doing

  Damon Knight

  Believe, People, Desire

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• Popularity has everything to do with business
  and nothing to do with music.

  Donald Fagen

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Beating Newt Gingrich in a popularity contest is like beating Stephen Hawking in 'Dancing with the Stars.'

  Bill Maher

  Stars, Dancing, Newts

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• If professional wrestling did not exist, could you come up with this idea? Could you envision the popularity of huge men in tiny bathing suits, pretending to fight?

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Wrestling, Fighting, Men

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• A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Believe

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Mar 30, 2013

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• The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, Personality, Church

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• I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Believe, Desire, Certain

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• You are not a leader to win a popularity contest-you are a leader to lead.

  Jack Welch

  Winning, Leader, Contests

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• I know God can cut it (popularity) off in a minute.

  Charles Stanley

  Cutting, Minutes, Knowing God

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• What brings a real and lasting joy is our relationships with God, and our love for His other children He has put in our lives. It's people; friends and family that fulfil us. All else, fame, popularity, beauty, is so fleeting.

  Lindsey Stirling

  Children, Real, People

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• Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.

  Indira Gandhi

  Quality

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• It seems to me that our presidential elections have turned more into a popularity contest than a real analysis about who really should be President of the United States.

  Danny Strong

  Real, Presidential, Election

  Source: collider.com

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• Whatever is popular deserves attention.

  James Mackintosh

  Song, Attention, Deserve

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• Certainly polling is a tool for leadership. It's not a program for leadership. And you can abuse a tool. You can overuse it. A leader who looks to the latest poll finding and says, "Well that's what I should do", that's not a very good leader. I mean that's someone who is not taking this poll and saying, "Well what am I gonna have to do to get public acceptance of my policies?" It's someone who is interested in their own election or re-election, and their own popularity rather than genuinely serving the public interest.

  Andrew Kohut

  Mean, Acceptance, Leader

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Ronald Reagan got a lot of democrats. I wish he hadn`t. I got to Congress with Reagan coming to the Whitehouse. The Reagan Program, a very radical one, a very drastic one passed because he had a lot of democrats. He worked at it personally and also because Reagan retained a popularity.

  Barney Frank

  Wish, Program, Radical

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• What you do is take the power [popularity] gives you - which is very temporary and minor but significant - and use it. The danger is that you use it on a vanity project that no one wants to watch.

  Danny Boyle

  Vanity, Giving, Watches

  "127 Hours - Danny Boyle interview" by Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It's not the norm when creators have any protections with regards to creative control. And so it took some time, I think, for the strip to gain enough popularity where I had enough leverage to come in and say, "It has to be done in a certain way or it's not going to be done at all," and then have people willing to put up with that who were ultimately paying for it. You know, for them to be willing to kind of concede those kind of things. It just takes time, you know?

  Aaron McGruder

  Thinking, People, Creative

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think that there has been a long and storied history in America of left-wing movements being actively, systematically, violently destroyed, disrupted, infiltrated, sabotaged, etc. by the U.S. government and its various intelligence agencies and that remains a greater challenge to their existence, traction, popularity, etc. than any sort of ideological infighting.

  Kool A.D.

  Thinking, Long, Challenges

  Source: therumpus.net

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