Popularity Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• 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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• Popularity, next to virtue and wisdom, ought to be aimed at; for it is the dictate of wisdom, and is necessary to the practice of virtue inmost.

  John Adams

  Practice, Next, Virtue

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1850). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.57

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• A dish around which I see too many people doesn't tempt me.

  Julien Green

  People, Dishes

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• I want to take advantage of any popularity I have.

  Ben Barnes

  Want, Advantage

  "Ben Barnes: the prince's wardrobe" by Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2010.

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• Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.

  Bruce Beresford

  World, Opera, Audience

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The short-cut to popularity is to lend everyone your ears, instead of giving them your tongue

  Frank Bettger

  Cutting, Giving, Ears

  Frank Bettger (2009). “How I Raised Myself From Failure”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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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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• We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.

  Adam Weishaupt

  School, Mean, Winning

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• The problem with popularity is that if it gets too popular everybody leaves and goes somewhere else.

  Mike Love

  Somewhere Else, Problem, Ifs

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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