Popular Quotes

• Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries eventually reflect popular choices. And the Internet is allowing more people to influence spelling than ever before.

  

  David Crystal
  • People
  • Choices
  • Popular

• Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Business
  • Opinion
  • Dance

• Let me give you a lesson about school. All the kids who were popular end up on the dole with babies. All the nerds end up as pop stars

  

  Darren Hayes Savage Garden
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• I think one reason why our show is popular too is that we have relationships with all these people. They are our actual friends. We're not like show promoters where we're like, (sleazy) "Hey, come on over and do a show."

  

  B. J. Porter
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Why

• 'New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that were popular because of their music were given the chance to act. And the soundtrack was incredible.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Music
  • Perfect

• Contrary to popular belief, we (millennials) can't be won back with hipper worship bands, fancy coffee shops, or pastors who wear skinny jeans.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • Coffee
  • Jeans
  • Fancy

• Interscope Records has always been a heat-seeking missile when it comes to shifts in popular culture, whether inciting them or reacting to them swiftly.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Culture
  • Popular

• The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.

  

  Daniel Dewan Sewell
  • Popular
  • Rap

• American popular culture, like individuals in daily life, tends to either romanticize or demonize mothers. We ricochet between 'Everything I ever accomplished I owe to my mother' and 'Every problem I have in my life is my mother's fault.'

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Life
  • American
  • Mother

• Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.

  

  Adora Svitak
  • School
  • High
  • Age

• Ronald Reagan was long thought to be the most conservative of Republicans. And by any standard today he is the most popular Republican in modern history. Yet he raised taxes 11 times, supported a ban on assault rifles and the Brady Bill, which mandated background checks, and established amnesty for 3 million undocumented workers.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Long
  • History
  • Today

• And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.

  

  Brad Bird
  • Pretty
  • Culture
  • Popular

• That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Leadership

• In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Family
  • Character
  • Age

• In many cities, it's become popular to hate 'gentrifiers,' rich people who move in and drive up housing prices - pushing everyone else out.

  

  Annalee Newitz
  • People
  • Up
  • Hate

• The popular story is that America was built by immigrants and that, therefore, everything about immigration is good and leads to a more successful society. This narrative is so devoid of historical context that it should embarrass anyone beyond a second-grade education.

  

  James Howard Kunstler
  • Good
  • America
  • Society

• With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Expectations

• I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Writing
  • Never
  • Become

• Contrary to popular mythology, not all NFL cheerleaders are bimbos or strippers or bored pretty girls looking to get rich. The Ben-Gals offer proof. Neither a bimbo nor a stripper nor a bored pretty girl would survive the rigorous life of a Ben-Gal. The Ben-Gals all have jobs or school or both.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • Life
  • School
  • Pretty

• I pick up on styles, way before they get popular, pretty much before young kids do. I see 'em coming.

  

  George Clinton
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Pretty

• Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, you’re popular enough.

  

  E. Lockhart
  • Friends
  • Popular

• There's a bit of debate about that; some say it was really Matthew, but the popular consensus is that Mark was the first one, so that's why I did that one first. And I was planning on doing all four.

  

  Chester Brown
  • Why
  • Popular
  • Planning

• We have a huge struggle for our sense of what a democracy is. We're not living in reality when we think we have some sort of democracy. We're really on the edge. We have two presidents who lost the popular vote but won the election. This is not working.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Reality
  • Lost
  • Democracy

• 'Upstairs Downstairs' somehow bestrode the different genres that had come before it to create a new drama entity. I suppose that's one of the reasons why it became so instantly popular.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Different
  • Why
  • Drama

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