Popular Quotes
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Reality TV is to popular because it allows so many people to sit on the sidelines and just watch somebody else's life. God is saying, 'Don't sit on the sidelines of life. I have put so much in you, but you have got to be strong and very courageous. You have got to step out in faith.'
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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.
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In Europe, you would almost never have people with large amounts of income being happy with a two-volume vehicle like a hatchback or a minivan. They want to structurally show their societal position, which is why three volumes are so popular. They show 'I'm part of that hierarchy.'
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My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.
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I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.
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In a democratic society like ours, relief must come through an aroused popular conscience that sears the conscience of the people's representatives.
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People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.
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Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.
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I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.
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I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture?
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I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.
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When I got started, the Bulls weren't even that popular in Chicago. The Chicago Sting, the indoor soccer team, was outdrawing the Bulls. Now you can travel all over the world - Europe, Far East, Africa, wherever - and you see people with Bulls memorabilia or merchandise. It's incredible and the one thing I never could imagined accomplishing.
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If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.
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White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.
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The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.
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Dolphins games always have been among the most popular NFL telecasts in England.
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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.
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In many cities, it's become popular to hate 'gentrifiers,' rich people who move in and drive up housing prices - pushing everyone else out.
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'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.
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The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.
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Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.
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And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used in any other popular songs at the time.
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So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
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As teenagers, we all see ourselves as outsiders... and it's very easy to look at other people who are more popular, who have more pocket money, and it makes you feel even more like an outsider, and it does shape who you become as a person.
