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• Video games are so popular these days, getting the opportunity to star in one is something special. More people should do it.

  Carrot Top

  Song, Stars, Opportunity

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• I wasn't the most popular girl in school by any means.

  Cindy Crawford

  Girl, School, Mean

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• I believe the time will come when the whole definition of pop music will change. It will get to the point where a song will not be a good song until it has a high level of creativity in writing and performance. In other words, in order to be popular, songs will have to meet these high standards.

  Nina Simone

  Song, Believe, Writing

  Source: www.musicismysanctuary.com

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• If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Success, Reason, Aspect

  "That Summer in Paris". Book by Morley Callaghan, 1963.

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• After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.

  Shirley Jones

  Children, School, Salary

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

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• We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

  John Lennon

  Music, Jesus, Rocks

  Interview with Maureen Cleave in Evening Standard 4 Mar. 1966. Cf. Zelda Fitzgerald

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• In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Movie, Song, Generations

  "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Ideas, Atheism, Watches

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• And if I can't be with you I would rather have a different face
  And if I can't be near you I would rather be adrift in space
  And if the gods desert us I would burn this chapel into flames
  And if someone tries to hurt you I would put myself in your place

  Neil Finn

  Song, Hurt, Flames

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• I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.

  Donald Trump

  Young Generation, People, Generations

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• I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.

  Karen Morley

  Song, Kings, Unions

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• If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Song, Lust

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.16, Anchor

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• I love you," he writes again and again. "I can't bear to live without you. I'm counting the minutes until I see you." The words he uses are the idioms of popular songs and poems in the newspaper. And mine to him are no less cliched. I puzzle over the onionskin, trying to spill my heart onto the page. But I can only come up with the same words, in the same order, and hope the depth of feeling beneath them gives them weight and substance. I love you. I miss you. Be careful. Be safe.

  Christina Baker Kline

  Song, Love You, Writing

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• Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

  Robert Hughes

  Running, Time, Genius

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• And Honey, I miss you and I'm being good.
  And I'd love to be with you if only I could.

  Bobby Goldsboro

  Food, Missing, Honey

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• I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.

  Gloria Swanson

  Song, World, Mary

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• The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Song, Artist, Would Be

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• I think it's as popular as it ever has been and it continues to grow as it does all around the world.

  Karrie Webb

  Song, Thinking, Doe

  "Karrie Webb Spins Cycle of Success". Insurance Journal interview, amp.insurancejournal.com. August 9, 2004.

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• My children have become popular, and they show a tremendous love for the public. They're professionals.

  Julio Iglesias

  Song, Children, Shows

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

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• Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States.

  Duff Green

  Song, Men, United States

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• American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.

  Vincente Minnelli

  Song, Stars, Important

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

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• I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.

  Karl Kraus

  Song, Literature, Vilify

  Karl Kraus (1977). “No Compromise: Selected Writings of Karl Kraus”, Frederick Ungar

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• I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

  Irwin Shaw

  Song, Literature, Masters

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• And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used in any other popular songs at the time.

  Bobby Sherman

  Song, Names, Used

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• Resolutions are popular because everyone feels they could use a little improvement.

  Marilu Henner

  Song, Use, Littles

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