Popularity Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• 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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• Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Prophet, Persecution

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• It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.

  Criss Jami

  Struggle, Emotion, Lifestyle

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.69, Criss Jami

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• Who are these bloggers? They're not trained editors at Vogue magazine. There are bloggers writing recipes that aren't tested that aren't necessarily very good, or are copies of what really good editors have created and done. Bloggers create a kind of a popularity but they are not the experts. We have to understand that.

  Martha Stewart

  Writing, Vogue Magazine, Editors

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• I think the general public's response to my projects is very strong. You can be an intellectual and say that popularity detracts from architectural quality. On the other hand, you can see in the public's identification something very positive.

  Moshe Safdie

  Strong, Thinking, Hands

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• Television is likely to do more to revolutionize politics than sound broadcasting did. Political candidates may have to adopt new techniques to benefit from visual radio: their dress, their smiles and gestures, all will be important. How they look, as well as what they say, may determine to an appreciable extent their popularity. The eyes of the public will be upon them.

  David Sarnoff

  Eye, Political, Important

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• If you're not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.

  Bobby Knight

  Opinion, Fame, Careful

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• Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

  William Devane

  Contests, Popularity Contest, Emmys

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• Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I'd rather just not be involved. I'm not a big high-fiver. That really gets to people around me when we have a No. 1 or something big happen. I'm not a big, 'Let's go have a party about it!

  Gary Allan

  Party, People, Bigs

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• There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Please, Enjoyed, Ifs

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.155, Shambhala Publications

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• They gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds. Tolkien became...devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity of the time. The gap widened between the beauty, the seriousness of the work, and what it has become is beyond me. This level of marketing reduces to nothing the aesthetic and philosophical significance of this work.

  Christopher Tolkien

  Book, Philosophical, Years

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• The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.

  Aristotle

  Men, Host, He Man

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• It is an unhappy lot which finds no enemies.

  Publilius Syrus

  Enemy, Unhappy

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• He that has many friends, has no friends.

  Aesop

  No Friends, Many Friends

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.71, Lulu Press, Inc

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• One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Blow, Men, Self

  Charles Horton Cooley (1964). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.261, Transaction Publishers

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• The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.

  David Mamet

  Symbolic Meaning, Perception, Tragedy

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• The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that as God waited long for an interpreter, so he can wait for his followers.

  Wendell Phillips

  Ideas, Numbers, Long

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• In the world of movie personalities the distance between popularity and politics is short.

  Shirley Temple

  Movie, Distance, Personality

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• In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned.

  A. N. Wilson

  Education, Circles, Intellectual

  The Guardian, September 30, 1989.

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• If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, People, Answers

  United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, William Tecumseh Sherman, George Henry Thomas, John Pope, John Gray Foster (1866). “Supplemental report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War: in two volumes ; supplemental to Senate report no. 142, 38th Congress, 2d session”, p.190

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• You're always going to sound like yourself, but you can make really strong attempts to keep some similarities, but move away from what you did before for popularity's sake.

  Chuck D

  Strong, Moving, Sound

  "Chuck D: A 'Hip Hop God' Speaks". Interview with Chris Williams, www.ebony.com. February 6, 2013.

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• In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Courage, Principles, Approval

  Remarks by President Gerald R. Ford on Receiving the 2001 Profile in Courage Award, www.jfklibrary.org. May 21, 2001.

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• Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.

  Howard Cosell

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

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• The central challenge for educational systems around the world is the substitution of effectiveness for popularity.

  Douglas B. Reeves

  Educational, Effectiveness, Challenges

  Douglas B. Reeves (2012). “Transforming Professional Development into Student Results”, p.2, ASCD

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