Popular Quotes And Sayings

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“The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.”
– Charles Babbage

“My whole thing is that I want to explore why you read books, what’s the purpose of reading, and maybe that it’s not that cool to hate something just because it’s popular.”
– Josh Radnor

“The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.”
– Christopher Lasch

“The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.”
– Christopher Lasch

“When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.”
– Christopher Lasch

“I moved to New York from California when I was 11, so initially I was seen as the California person for a while. I didn’t feel like I was popular, but I did feel confident.”
– Gwyneth Paltrow

“People constantly make pop-culture references. That’s why it’s called popular culture, because people are aware of it and reference it constantly.”
– Seth Rogen

“Love. It isn’t very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it’s a very very important part of what holds our project together.”
– Jimmy Wales

“Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.”
– Dan Stevens

“Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. People want to know what happens next, people hate the villains and love the lovers. It’s good, fun TV. But I wouldn’t call ‘Downton’ a soap opera as such.”
– Dan Stevens

“A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.”
– Wilson Mizner

“Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.”
– Morley Safer

“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.”
– Walter Bagehot

“I had an all right high school, even though I hated school. I wasn’t massively popular, but I was okay. But I wouldn’t want to do it again.”
– Channing Tatum

“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.”
– Ben Affleck

“You would think that with ten super-famous people in one movie, it’s gonna be ten times more popular or viewed, but on some level, they can cancel each other out.”
– Guy Pearce

“That’s the hardest thing about being a mom. You want to be cool, and you want them to like you all the time, but you can’t always have that. You’re gonna have times where you have to say no, and you won’t be the most popular person in the house.”
– Martina McBride

“I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.”
– Karl Kraus

“Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.”
– Renee Fleming

“Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step – it is an old business procedure.”
– Fran Lebowitz

“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.”
– Gore Vidal

“Compassion is not a popular virtue.”
– Karen Armstrong

“Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it’s the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what’s the point of having religion if you can’t disapprove of other people?”
– Karen Armstrong

“I don’t know why my shoes are so popular – I am always surprised and mystified by it.”
– Manolo Blahnik

“We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.”
– Billy Joel

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