Popularity quotes
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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!"
"The popular breeze - Aura popularis"
"Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right."
"Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity."
"He that has many friends, has no friends."
"I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things."
"You can't argue with popularity. Well, you could, but you'd be wrong!"
"Popularity is for dolls."
"There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time."
"My popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people."
"There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed."
"Ronald Reagan got a lot of democrats. I wish he hadn`t. I got to Congress with Reagan coming to the Whitehouse. The Reagan Program, a very radical one, a very drastic one passed because he had a lot of democrats. He worked at it personally and also because Reagan retained a popularity."
"Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date."
"There are movies where I've walked onto the set and felt, "This is home," and I'm confident in myself and my work, but that was my first experience of live TV. At that stage, Friends was at its unassailable height of popularity and brilliance."
"Popularity's a weird thing. You can't really define it, and it's not cool to talk about, but you know it when you see it. Like a lazy eye, or porn."
"You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer"
"In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon."
"The best of us would rather be popular than right."
"A dish around which I see too many people doesn't tempt me."
"Popularity, next to virtue and wisdom, ought to be aimed at; for it is the dictate of wisdom, and is necessary to the practice of virtue inmost."
