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• Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home.

  John Howard Payne

  Daughter, Mother, Home

  Gabriel Harrison, John Howard Payne (1875). “The life and writing of John Howard Payne”

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• No Romeo-and-Juliet acts, no nonsense about Love with a large L, none of that popular song claptrap with its skies of blue, dreams come true, heaven with you. Just sensuality for its own sake.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love, Dream, Song

  Aldous Huxley (1993). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel”, p.158, Ivan R. Dee

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• Because you're mine, I walk the line.

  Johnny Cash

  Country, Song, Eyes Wide Open

  Song: I Walk The Line

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• You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, A sigh is just a sigh; The fundamental things apply, As time goes by.

  Herman Hupfeld

  Time, Kissing, Fundamentals

  "As Time Goes By" (song) (1931)

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• No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Women, Law, Political

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• George W. Bush broke a mold four years ago: Even though he lost the popular vote, he governed as if he had won by acclamation.

  Tony Snow

  Popular Vote, Years, Mold

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• The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that seductive land where we all find certainty and consolation. Nothing quite spans this gulf with such immediacy as the art of popular song.

  Barry Humphries

  Song, Art, Past

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• I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace!... Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow, I've always considered myself a popular artist.

  Maxfield Parrish

  Appreciation, Artist, People

  Maxfield Parrish, Alma Gilbert-Smith, Joyce Stoner, Trust for Museum Exhibitions (2005). “Maxfield Parrish: master of make-believe”, Philip Wilson Publishers

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• All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.

  Roland Barthes

  Sports, Song, School

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• You know a dream is like a river
  Ever changing as it flows.
  And a dreamer's just a vessel
  That must follow where it goes.
  Trying to learn from what's behind you
  And never knowing what's in store
  Makes each day a constant battle
  Just to stay between the shores.

  Garth Brooks

  Dream, Rivers, Knowing

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• We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals

  Tommy Shaw

  Lazy, Down And, Figures

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• Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

  Joni Mitchell

  Love, Real, Moon

  Song: Both Sides, Now

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• Blue moon you saw me standing alone
  Without a dream in my heart
  Without a love of my own.

  Lorenz Hart

  Dream, Heart, Sadness

  "Song: 'Blue Moon'". 1952.

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• Shower the people you love with love Show them the way that you feel Things are gonna work out fine if you only will.

  James Taylor

  Love, Peace, People

  Song: Shower The People

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• Over a period of time, I think the popular will in Iran will prevail.

  Frank Carlucci

  Thinking, Iran, Periods

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• Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary.

  Danny Boyle

  Ordinary, Film, Easy

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• But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

  Stanley Crouch

  Media, Violent, Myth

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• As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.

  C. L. R. James

  Struggle, Class, Study

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• Hawai'i is not truly the idyllic paradise of popular songs--islands of love and tranquility, where nothing bad ever happens. It was and is a place where people work and struggle, live and die, as they do the world over.

  Alan Brennert

  Song, Struggle, Islands

  Alan Brennert (2015). “The Hawaii Novels: Moloka'i and Honolulu”, p.845, St. Martin's Press

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• We've been in a war and a recession. That's why acccent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They're optimistic and flirty and happy colors.

  David Bromstad

  Flirty, War, Optimistic

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• We walked at night towards a cafe blooming with Japanese lanterns and I followed your white shoes gleaming like radium in the damp darkness. Rising off the water, lights flickered an invitation far enough away to be interpreted as we liked; to shimmer glamourously behind the silhouette of retrospective good times when we still believed in summer hotels and the philosophies of popular songs.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Summer, Song, Philosophy

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• The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Artist, Devil, Making Money

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• It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.

  Bill Paxton

  Twists, Film, Very Popular

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• I've got the moves like Jagger.

  Adam Levine

  Moving, Maroon 5, Pops

  "Moves Like Jagger". Song by Adam Levine, Ammar Malik, Benjamin Levin, and Shellback, June 21, 2011.

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• What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.

  Howard Cosell

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