Very Popular Quotes

• NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.

  Xi Jinping

  Nba, Games, Watches

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• I know I'm not very popular on Long Island. I don't know who's less popular, me or Joey Buttafuoco.

  Don Maloney

  Hockey, Islands, Nhl

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• The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

  Robertson Davies

  Funny, Dog, Silly

  Robertson Davies (1949). “The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks”, Clarke, Irwin

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• She became a very famous, very popular young girl. Before that, she was my daughter, but now I'm her father.

  Ziauddin Yousafzai

  Girl, Mother, Daughter

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

  Bill Paxton

  Twists, Popular Song, Film

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• I want to collaborate with Amy [Winehouse] because she's really hot and cool right now. I know one song Rehab was very popular particularly because a lot of young people are in rehab as well. In fact I'm thinking about going. It looks like loads of fun and I know my career will benefit from it.

  Sheryl Crow

  Song, Fun, Thinking

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• Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.

  Ian Mckellen

  Play, Acting, Want

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• Geoffrey Hill may be the strongest and most original English poet of the second half of our fading century, although his work is by no means either easy or very popular. Dense, intricate, exceedingly compact, his poetry has always had great visionary force.

  John Hollander

  Mean, Visionaries, Fading

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• I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.

  Jackie Collins

  Book, Dutch, Amsterdam

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• Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they always say yes. But they get nothing done.

  Peter Drucker

  Leader, Trying, Done

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• You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the top of your art, or if you want to be a very popular tenor.

  Alfredo Kraus

  Art, Halloween, Choices

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• Well, developers do want to touch a lot of customers. We have to make our platform very popular in order for them to do that. If we make their jobs easier, then they'll be more likely to stay on the Windows platform.

  Jim Allchin

  Jobs, Order, Want

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• Everywhere we walked we got plenty of attention due to the camera and sound men. The locals love to get on camera. [...] I'd seen footage of Gandhi surrounded like this and always thought it was because he was very popular, but now I wonder if it was just because he had a camera crew with him.

  Karl Pilkington

  Men, Cameras, Sound

  Karl Pilkington (2010). “An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington”, p.67, Canongate Books

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• Something about this boat screamed, "I am a very popular model in the world's oil-bearing regions. I cost more than your soul!

  Maureen Johnson

  Oil, Soul, Cost

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• Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.

  Dave Barry

  Snowboarding, People, Literature

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.86, Ballantine Books

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• People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Sports, Cycling, Leisure Activities

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• Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Hippie, Peaceful, Kabul

  "This much I know". Interview with Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. May 03, 2008.

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• Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.

  Willie Nelson

  Swings, Bob, Jazz

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• When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.

  Jodi Picoult

  Thinking, Fiction, Use

  "The great unknown". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.

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• There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing. It was garbage, yet very addictive garbage - because there's lots of violence, all the women take their clothes off all the time, and it's kind of fun.

  Salman Rushdie

  Fun, Games, Clothes

  "Interview / Salman Rushdie Is Not Afraid". Interview with Gidi Weitz, www.haaretz.com. October 14, 2011.

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• I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway.

  Kathleen Turner

  Moving, People, Stones

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• My clothes are very popular in Japan.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Artist, Japan, Clothes

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• Have you ever head this theory about drinking yourself sober?' Eddie asked. 'It's a very popular theory. Amongst drunks, anyway.

  Robert Rankin

  Drinking, Sober, Theory

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• No matter how you feel you have to act like you are very popular with yourself; very relaxed and purposeful very unconfused and not like you are walking through the sunshine singing in chains.

  Tony Hoagland

  Sunshine, Singing, How You Feel

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• At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point.

  John Astin

  Ravens, People, Admiration

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

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