Popularity Contest Quotes

• Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title

  Robin Sharma

  Doors, Games, Names

  Twitter post from Dec 07, 2016

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• The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

  Al Gore

  Popularity, Contests, Presidency

  "Gore accepts Democratic nomination 'as my own man'" by Mike Ferullo, www.cnn.com. August 18, 2000.

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• Art has never been a popularity contest.

  James Levine

  Art, Popularity, Contests

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• Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

  Horace Greeley

  Wisdom, Character, Wings

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• I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

  Al Gore

  Thinking, Personality, Popularity

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• Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience.

  Susan Estrich

  Winning, Personality, Battle

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• I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.

  Tab Hunter

  Winning, Dislike Me, People

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• The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection, and community. That's what there's too little of in today's mediascape, despite all the hoopla surrounding social tools. The promise of the Internet wasn't merely to inflate relationships, without adding depth, resonance, and meaning. It was to fundamentally rewire people, communities, civil society, business, and the state — through thicker, stronger, more meaningful relationships. That's where the future of media lies.

  Umair Haque

  Meaningful, Lying, Real

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

  Jack Welch

  Winning, Leader, Popularity

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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, Popularity

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• Life is not a popularity contest. Take the hill, but first answer the question: What is my hill?.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Answers, Firsts, Life Is

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• I don't know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching - 'cause we are not going to win any popularity contests.

  Clarence Thomas

  Friends, Winning, Thinking

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• All language is a popularity contest.

  Erin McKean

  Language, Popularity, Contests

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• Why don’t the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.

  Trent Reznor

  Clubs, Matter, Popularity

  "Trent Reznor on Relating to 'Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' Darkness; Why Grammys are 'Rigged and Cheap'". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 14, 2011.

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• Clay Aiken ran for Congress in North Carolina. But he didn't make it. Clay Aiken is famous for coming in second in a TV popularity contest that most people got fed up with years ago. He also lost on 'American Idol.'

  Craig Ferguson

  Years, Idols, People

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• Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.

  Lois Wyse

  Winning, Way, Failing

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• I'm not in this business to win a popularity contest, I just want to be a good actor. Well, you've failed at being a good actor. Why not try for the popularity contest?

  Roger Moore

  Winning, Trying, Hollywood

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• Life is not a popularity contest

  Susun Weed

  Life, Popularity, Contests

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

  D. L. Hughley

  Thinking, Popularity, Contests

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

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• When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones.

  Dee Dee Ramone

  Kings, Rap, Winning

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• It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.

  Julia Leigh

  Movie, Thinking, Actors

  "While You Were Sleeping: Julia Leigh's Dream World". Interview with Craig Hubert, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2011.

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• I'm not here to win a popularity contest. I'm here to work and have a career. Let the haters hate. I'm ready for the criticism.

  Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

  Hate, Winning, Careers

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities . . . We have to create our own standards of discipline.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Art, Reality, Discipline

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• Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.

  Saul Bellow

  School, Politics, Firsts

  "The Portable Curmudgeon". Book by Jon Winokur, p. 219, 1987.

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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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