Popularity Quotes - Page 20

• There is a 'patrician arrogance' to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity while it at the same time explains the critical resistance to his work.

  Jon Landau

  Arrogance, Resistance, Accounts

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• It struck me that the popularity of Christmas is a matter of web-like consciousness. Childhood conditions us to relax and expand at Christmas, to forget petty worries and irritations and think in terms of universal peace. And so Christmas is the nearest to mystical experience that most human beings ever approach, with its memories of Dickens and Irving's Bracebridge Hall.

  Colin Wilson

  Christmas, Memories, Thinking

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• If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.

  John Adams

  Country, Political, Politics

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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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• When I stay focused and honest about who I am and the image that I hope to portray, then I won't find myself stranded in unfamiliar territory chasing money or popularity. If the work that you do is quality, then you'll be rewarded. It's also good to stretch musically within the realm of your ability, but not if it compromises your integrity.

  Oleta Adams

  Integrity, Who I Am, Quality

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• Learn your craft well. Take care of your own business. Success (popularity) is fleeting for most, but longevity lies in a quality craft with integrity. Oh, and don't take yourself too seriously.

  Oleta Adams

  Integrity, Lying, Business Success

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• The internet is about popularity. It is a medium to spread my popularity as an artist.

  Terence Koh

  Artist, Internet, Mediums

  Interview with Ross Simonini, believermag.com. November 1, 2011.

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• Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.

  Indira Gandhi

  Quality

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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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• 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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• In theater, it's just you and the audience. It's less of a popularity contest. It's just you and the audience, and they're laughing or they're not laughing, that's the only gauge you really have. But with TV and movies and everything, it's like "Well, did you get a meeting at so-and-so?" and "So-and-so's really hot right now," which is all the stuff I'm probably still not used to.

  Rachel Dratch

  Laughing, Hot, Audience

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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 it's good to, especially when you start to get to achieve certain levels of success and start doing a lot of interviews and having a lot of reviews, it would be quite easy to get pretty full of yourself. I think it's an important thing to try and keep yourself in check and just be aware that popularity doesn't necessarily run in parallel to quality.

  David Prowse

  Running, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

  Horace Greeley

  Wisdom, Cheer, Character

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• My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Freedom, Patriotic, Independent

  Adlai E. Stevenson's speech in Detroit, Michigan, October 7, 1952.

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• I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any other fashion.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Fashion, Falling In Love, Thinking

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• Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear, like slaves dreading the lash. Under a Democracy they are so as a means of attaining popularity and office, and because of the greed for wealth.

  Albert Pike

  Mean, Men, Two

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof

  Mary McCarthy

  Europe, America, Negative

  "America the Beautiful: The Humanist in the Bathtub" (1947)

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• I think, when I can employ thousands and thousands of people, take care of their education, take care of so many things, even in military. I raised, and I have raised, millions of dollars for the vets. I'm helping the vets a lot. I think my popularity with the vets is through the roof.

  Donald Trump

  Military, Thinking, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

  Marco Rubio

  Leadership, Vision, Public Opinion

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• The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity.

  Margaret D. Nadauld

  Inspirational, Faith, Women

  "The Joy of Womanhood" by Margaret D. Nadauld, www.lds.org. November 2000.

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