Indira Gandhi
Politician
"Popularity is not a gurantee of quality."
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Popularity
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Orson Welles
Director, Actor, Producer
"Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate."
Heinrich Mann
Author
"Goodness means the highest degree of popularity."
Madonna Ciccone
Singer
"Popularity comes and goes. You need to know who you are, what you stand for, and why you're here."
J. K. Rowling
Novelist, Screenwriter
"If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time."
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"The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I can't describe it"
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"Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered."
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"The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody."
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"what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise."
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"I will not change just to court popularity."
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"I want to take advantage of any popularity I have."
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"The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity."
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"Popularity? It's glory's small change."
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"I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity."
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"The presidency is more than a popularity contest."
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"I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest."
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"I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity."
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"To please the many is to displease the wise."
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"Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters."
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"The truth, the hope, of any time must be sought in the minorities. Michael Angelo was the conscience of Italy. We grow free with his name, and find it ornamental now, but in his own day his friends were few."
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"Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I'd rather just not be involved. I'm not a big high-fiver. That really gets to people around me when we have a No. 1 or something big happen. I'm not a big, 'Let's go have a party about it!"
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"The popular breeze - Aura popularis"
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"Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right."
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"Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity."
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"He that has many friends, has no friends."
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