Everything popular is wrong.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
I have friends who wear Star Wars costumes and act like the characters all day. I may not be that deep into it, but there's something great about loving what you love and not caring if it's unpopular.
~By Kristen Bell ~
I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn't fully appreciate. But I'm now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies.
~By Ben Affleck ~
Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.
~By Dee Hock ~
We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.
~By Keenen Ivory Wayans ~
We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
~By John Lennon ~
Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
~By Matthew Arnold ~
I wasn't the most popular girl in school by any means.
~By Cindy Crawford ~
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
~By William Penn ~
Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.
~By Terri Windling ~
I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
~By Tab Hunter ~
An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.
~By Fred Allen ~
Given that there was that era of girl group music and it's still very popular, but I think if you looked at the chart from that time you would see many more men on it. Because the industry, they were catering to young girls. I mean, that's what they thought their audience was.
~By Lesley Gore ~
What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?
~By Lara St. John ~
I don't want my president to be a TV star. You don't have to be on television every minute of every day - you're the president, not a rerun of 'Law & Order'. TV stars are too worried bout being popular and too concerned about being renewed.
~By Bill Maher ~
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
~By Tony Bennett ~
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
~By Margaret Fuller ~
In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
~By B. Carroll Reece ~
Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
~By Arnold H. Glasow ~
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
~By John Lennon ~
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
I was unpopular at school just because I was an intellectual. I always answered all the questions off the top of my head but they nevertheless resented because of that.
~By George Woodcock ~
After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.
~By Shirley Jones ~
It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries.
~By Nils-Axel Morner ~
Being an actress is similar to trying to fit in with the popular kids in high school. You're expected to drive the right car, wear the right clothes and say the right things.
~By Lauren Ambrose ~
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
~By Carrie Chapman Catt ~
We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that we're such a huge band outside of the U.S., where we're not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago.
~By Michael Stipe ~
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
~By Gore Vidal ~
We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines.
~By James Van Allen ~
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
~By Jack Kerouac ~
The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players. male and female.
~By Mick Taylor ~
The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States.
~By Norm Dicks ~
It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank.
~By John George Nicolay ~
I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth.
~By Bob Edwards ~
I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.
~By Julius Erving ~
I guess the nicest thing about being, I won't say famous but being popular is a more proper word for me to use would be that if you've got a recognizable name, a lot of times you can get people to do things for you ordinarily that you wouldn't get done.
~By Mickey Gilley ~
The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.
~By Paul Robeson ~
Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
~By Gerry Adams ~
A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.
~By Ismail Merchant ~
The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
~By Logan Pearsall Smith ~
I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.
~By Billy Eckstine ~
It's the only sport that's played in every country in the world. It's played and watched all over the world, it's the most popular sport in probably 90% of the countries, and then with the World Cup, you have the most viewed tournament of any sport in the world.
~By Claudio Reyna ~
I'm sure if we had made an album that was more traditional would have been released immediately. When we actually play this music on stage and people become familiar with it, it will become more popular.
~By Mick Taylor ~
But as far as being popular, yeah, I think Dave Barry is really funny.
~By Jonathan Franzen ~
In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.
~By John Philip Sousa ~
The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.
~By Carol Moseley Braun ~
We must work to stabilize Social Security. We must not gamble with our nation's social insurance program, one of our most popular and effective federal programs that has remained dependable and stable for the past 70 years.
~By Grace Napolitano ~
O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
~By William Cowper ~
I have friends who wear Star Wars costumes and act like the characters all day. I may not be that deep into it, but there's something great about loving what you love and not caring if it's unpopular.
~By Kristen Bell ~
It is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.
~By William Lamb Melbourne ~
Whiskey is by far the most popular of all remedies that won't cure a cold.
~By Jerry Vale ~
There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff was popular. It was very easy for me to just kind of move in and be noticed.
~By Shawn Colvin ~
I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace! Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow, I've always considered myself a popular artist.
~By Maxfield Parrish ~
I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.
~By Anthony Holden ~
When a popular phenomenon reaches the cover of 'Time,' it is already out of fashion.
~By Richard Holloway ~
And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture.
~By Kurt Loder ~
Yeah, I think that's it... It's like Jesse James. He became really popular because he lasted so long. You know, there is some degree of truth to the fact that time will dignify anything, too.
~By John Milius ~
I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.
~By Colin Firth ~
I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.
~By Ron Carter ~
I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where's Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis no less.
~By Marion Berry ~
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
~By Ezra Pound ~
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.
~By Bo Bennett ~
I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
~By Bette Midler ~
I did have fun, for example, in The Black Hole which was very popular among youngsters.
~By Maximilian Schell ~
A President cannot always be popular.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
Some of these pro-drug messages come from popular culture.
~By John Walters ~
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
~By Keith Richards ~
I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture.
~By Steve Guttenberg ~
In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.
~By Les Baxter ~
The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.
~By Andrew Eldritch ~
We have to say what we believe... whether it's popular or not.
~By Howard Dean ~
Popular applause veers with the wind.
~By John Bright ~
I've been amazed that it's so popular with people. But it's been fantastic. People are very excited when I walk into a place and they recognize me from the series.
~By Victor Garber ~
Hollywood is just like high school. The popular people only like the other popular people. And the thing is, some people aren't nice - or they're nice, but only to your face, not elsewhere.
~By Amanda Seyfried ~
Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.
~By Charles James Fox ~
It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write about, I don't choose my subjects, they kind of choose me.
~By Billy Bragg ~
The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular.
~By Jay Leno ~
Today, you're either very big or you're playing stadiums or you're not playing anymore. You're either popular where everybody will go to a 20,000 seat arena to see you or they won't go to see you at all.
~By Bobby Vinton ~
Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.
~By Kenneth Edmonds ~
When it comes to the recording and writing, it's still mostly Mickey and I. But now there's this whole live entity that's a whole different thing, and it seems to be where we're gaining the most popularity.
~By Gene Ween ~
There's no doubt about it, earmarks are not very popular. There are good earmarks and bad earmarks. The good earmarks are the ones I get for my district.
~By Anthony Weiner ~
If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.
~By Brian Mulroney ~
The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.
~By Will Rogers ~
I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.
~By Benjamin F. Wade ~
As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
~By Vince McMahon ~
There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
~By Barack Obama ~
So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
~By Waylon Jennings ~
In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music.
~By Dinah Shore ~
Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see.
~By Ted Kotcheff ~
I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing.
~By Eric Bogosian ~
If certain songs become popular enough to the point where I'll be playing them the rest of my life, I don't want them all to dwell on the same down moment that I'll have to keep reliving.
~By Chantal Kreviazuk ~
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
~By Robert Frost ~
The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.
~By Bruce Beresford ~
Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.
~By Laura Ingraham ~
Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
~By Dave Barry ~
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