Popular Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Once a popular Alaska governor with a modest record of accomplishment, Palin could conceivably revive her reputation in this era of short memories. But it’s hard to imagine her name atop the GOP ballot in 2016, when a cast of heavyweights who sat out 2012 will be vying for the nomination.”
– Ron Fournier

“I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service.”
– King Hussein I

“I’m a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I’m an evangelist of popular culture, but when there’s only media, then there’s going to be a slow debasement of language, and that’s what I think we’re fighting.”
– Camille Paglia

“Popular culture – above all rock ‘n’ roll, with its African-American R & B roots – did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.”
– Camille Paglia

“It’s a character that I always found really likable. I’m fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people.”
– Antonio Banderas

“It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry ‘I could have thought of that’ is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn’t, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.”
– Douglas Adams

“I was obsessed with being popular in high school and never achieved it. There’s photos from our high school musicals, and I’m comically in the deep background, wearing a beggar’s costume.”
– Mindy Kaling

“I’ve had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that’s OK with me. I don’t feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?”
– Kevin Costner

“I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.”
– Fred Durst

“When I supported the stimulus package, I knew that it would not be popular with the Republican Party.”
– Arlen Specter

“Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.”
– Dave Barry

“I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn’t before.”
– John Cusack

“These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I’ve been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.”
– Thomas Frank

“Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.”
– Maximilien Robespierre

“Entertainment isn’t just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it’s great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.”
– Robert Plant

“What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.”
– Erich Fromm

“I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.”
– Jonathan Swift

“Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don’t think so… I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.”
– Haruki Murakami

“The biopic also wasn’t a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It’s also a form that’s very popular – the straight-ahead biopic.”
– Gus Van Sant

“I was afraid I would get the Oscar for ‘Irma La Douce’ because it was popular. But I didn’t want to because I didn’t really think it was that good.”
– Shirley MacLaine

“The Tweets that I have written that are most popular are the ones that are the kind of universal girly concerns and observations.”
– Mindy Kaling

“Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.”
– Liz Phair

“If something is well-written, it has a chance to be good and if it’s not well-written, it will not be good. It could even become popular, but it won’t be good.”
– Bryan Cranston

“For someone in my position, there’s opportunities to be anything you want to be, even if you shouldn’t be eligible, and I think that’s left a bad taste in a lots of financers’ and studios’ mouths. Just cause someone’s popular at one thing, letting them do the other isn’t always the right thing.”
– Fred Durst

“I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don’t put myself into gender mode when designing a game.”
– Roberta Williams

“Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?”
– Billy Joel

“Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run against Congress, and vice versa, but I think there is an inherent popular aversion to assaults on the court itself. Perhaps it has to do with an instinctive belief that life needs umpires.”
– Jon Meacham

“I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.”
– Desmond Tutu

“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.”
– Bill Maher

“Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.”
– David Attenborough

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