Desmond Tutu Quotes

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

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• I act on my principles, whether they're popular or not.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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  • Act
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• I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Science
  • Question
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• I never was a popular kid in class.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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  • Class

• Since Mashable's inception, some of our most popular articles have focused on the science behind the world's coolest innovations.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • World
  • Science
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• 'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.

  

  M.I.A.
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  • Years
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• The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Television

• White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • History
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• I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • People
  • Popular
  • Said

• The White House New Media team circulates multiple highlights each day of what people are looking for online - Twitter trending topics, popular Google searches, etc. - and it gives us a sense of what's breaking through, what isn't, and a sanity check for what the larger online population cares about at any given time.

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
  • People
  • Time
  • House

• Compassion is not a popular virtue.

  

  Karen Armstrong
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• Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.

  

  Nate Mendel Foo Fighters
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  • Ideas
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• I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.

  

  Karl Kraus
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• 'The Stand' came out in May of '94 and was seen by 60 million people a night for four nights, and then two months later, 'Forrest Gump' opened. So within a very short time, I went from being depressed about not getting any work to being in two of the most popular shows of the year.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I'm still going to sing these songs because trap is a type of music very popular in the streets, and people want to hear it.

  

  Maluma
  • People
  • Music
  • Want

• I'm one of those people who really liked high school. I know that might not be a popular thing to say, but it was fun, and I enjoyed my friends.

  

  Jack McBrayer
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  • School
  • Friends

• A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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  • King
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• It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
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  • Easy

• When you come into a house like Saint Laurent, or Chanel, or Lanvin, and you go into a place that existed before you were born and will exist after you die, it takes some time to get in, to get to people, and to get the energy of the place.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • People
  • Time
  • House

• When you're not at the top of your game and you feel like the other team is laughing and embarrassing you by doing certain things, it's time to retaliate.

  

  Bert Blyleven
  • Time
  • Game
  • Team

• I would like to be in tons of different types of movies and do different things. I like action movies, and with 'Mr. Peabody and Sherman', I got to see a historical movie, too.

  

  Max Charles
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  • Action

• I have a stationary bike that I do twice a week, but I'm not really serious about it. I just do it until I get tired. And then I have a step thing that I really hate. It's hard on your knees. I have a treadmill that keeps getting stuck. It's nice to have equipment around, though, because you can sit on it anytime.

  

  Liz Torres
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  • Nice
  • Serious

• There's nothing that America can't handle if we actually look squarely at the problem. ...Change depends on our actions.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America

• I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

  

  Desmond Tutu
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