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• So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.

  Waylon Jennings

  Song, Might, Wanted

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• So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear.

  Paul Weyrich

  Song, Media, Giving

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• I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.

  Billy Eckstine

  School, Popular Song, Cab

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• A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Errors, Matter, Belief

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.226, Modern Library

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

  Bill Paxton

  Twists, Popular Song, Film

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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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• 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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• 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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• In college, I was like most young men, doing what pleased me and looking out mainly for my own interest. I had success in baseball and was very popular in school but all these things, which the world chases after, left me empty and unfulfilled. Through a series of trials and difficult times, the Lord opened my eyes to my sin and what would truly fulfill me. June 9, 2001, I received forgiveness and the gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ.

  Luke Scott

  Baseball, Jesus, Eye

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• Every popular zillion dollar sport has its share of personal scandals around the sport and its leadership.

  Rachel Maddow

  Sports, Scandal, Dollars

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• Life is like a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Very popular and not as bad as some would have you believe. That is, unspeakably awful but mercifully brief.

  Simon Munnery

  Believe, Musical, Life Is Like

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• After Psychonauts went on to be very, very popular in Europe, I got busy with my next big project: being unemployed.

  Erik Wolpaw

  Europe, Next, Busy

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• No, I don't do drugs anymore, either. But I'll tell you something about drugs. I used to do drugs, but I'll tell you something honestly about drugs, honestly, and I know it's not a very popular idea, you don't hear it very often anymore, but it is the truth: I had a great time doing drugs. Sorry. Never murdered anyone, never robbed anyone, never raped anyone, never beat anyone, never lost a job, a car, a house, a wife or kids, laughed my ass off, and went about my day.

  Bill Hicks

  Jobs, Sorry, Kids

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• There are so many sci-fi fans and it's such a big business now. So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal. I would be lying if I said that the fact that I had been on a very popular sci-fi show and had some recognition in that world didn't help me get the job on another sci-fi show.

  Aaron Ashmore

  Jobs, Lying, People

  Source: collider.com

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• In the early 60s, folk music seemed to be very popular. In the early 70s, people like James Taylor, John Denver, Jim Croce and Cat Stevens brought back the interest in acoustic music. Today, we don't hear anything.

  Paul Stookey

  Cat, People, Denver

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• The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can't believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Party, Believe, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I understand why Vladimir Putin is very popular in Russia - he's probably the first Russian leader to not apologize for being Russian. People always pin it down to one man, but there's hundreds of millions of Russians of various sorts. Putin does seem to be very popular in Russia, if only because he stands up for Russians wherever they are, which is exactly what Americans do with Americans, of course.

  Robert Wyatt

  Men, People, Leader

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When Dalton Trumbo and his friends joined the Communist Party it was 1943, and Russia was our ally in World War II. This was connected to a very popular movement of artists and intellectuals at that time towards anti fascism, and an alliance with the union movement.

  Jay Roach

  War, Party, Artist

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• We have a pope [Francis] who's very popular among the Catholic faithful and non-Catholics, but there's no doubt he's going to continue to face resistance from conservatives inside the church.

  Sylvia Poggioli

  Faithful, Catholic, Doubt

  Source: www.npr.org

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• With the initial focus groups and the initial look-sees, the Rams are a very popular team in Southern California. And so one of the reasons that it was attractive to us to work against them is because they have that good flavor.

  Jerry Jones

  Team, California, Southern

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