Popular Quotes

• On the first day of school, my father told me I'd be the most popular girl and everyone would love me and want to be my friend. It wasn't so, but it gave me an enormous amount of confidence.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • School
  • Girl
  • Friend

• Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Life
  • Time
  • Stress

• I was never looking to be popular. The trade-off for me in seeking other people's opinions is the potential to help that you get in the media. And we don't always do that, but when we do, it's a beautiful thing.

  

  Chris Cuomo
  • People
  • Help
  • Beautiful

• 'Snow' is my most popular book in the United States. But in Turkey, it was not as popular as 'My Name is Red,' or even 'The Museum of Innocence,' because the secular leaders didn't want this bourgeois Orhan trying to understand these head-scarf girls.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Red

• The feeling that we call 'I' seems to define our point of view in every moment, and it also provides an anchor for popular beliefs about souls and freedom of will. And yet this feeling, however imperturbable it may appear at present, can be altered, interrupted, or entirely abolished.

  

  Sam Harris
  • May
  • Freedom
  • Feeling

• There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher; for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors in the orator to please them. The meanest qualifications will work this effect if the preacher sincerely sets about it.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • People
  • Work
  • Talent

• This left-wing kind of speech, the Robin Hood thing that Pablo had, of course he was a criminal and a mean person, but it wasn't a false. He wasn't false. I don't know what kind of president he would be, maybe a very bad one, but I am sure he would do things for poor people - popular things that wouldn't solve their lives but would help them.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • People
  • Help
  • President

• You know you don't have to be the most popular kid in the school to have people acknowledge your presence.

  

  Jeanne Phillips
  • People
  • School
  • Popular

• If a show is wickedly, hugely popular, like 'Mad Men,' I assume that the masses, in their infinite inferiority to me, don't know what good TV is and that everyone is just brainwashed.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • Good
  • Men
  • Mad

• Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • Culture
  • Rock

• I don't go to movies, I don't own a television, I don't buy magazines and I try not to receive mail, so I'm not really aware of popular culture.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • Culture
  • Popular

• Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Culture
  • Become
  • Only

• I think that my music is really empowering. I just want people to know - especially young people, but really everyone - that you don't have to be so caught up in what everyone else is thinking. You don't have to be the coolest, most popular person. You can just be you and be vulnerable.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• We never said we were hard-core or that we didn't want our music crossing over or being popular.

  

  Pepa DJ Spinderella
  • Music
  • Popular

• A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • People
  • Popular
  • Author

• A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end what the public hates at first sight.

  

  Charles James
  • Great
  • Force
  • Acceptance

• I don't think that everything that's popular is necessarily right for every body and so I'd like for girls to be confident enough to make the right choice for themselves and to look unique.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Body
  • Unique
  • Choice

• I've always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed to act if you want to be popular.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Want
  • Differences
  • Act

• It's not good for comedy to be like, 'Thanks for liking me.' Being popular is poison.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Good
  • Comedy
  • Poison

• Doing what is right in the face of adversity is not always easy or popular. Critics may assail you, but the critics don't always realize what they don't know or don't understand, because they don't have access to all the information.

  

  John Ashcroft
  • May
  • Popular
  • Adversity

• Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.

  

  David Crystal
  • People
  • Choices
  • Popular

• I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Things
  • Head
  • Hold

• 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
  • People
  • School
  • Friends

• I spent so much of my time when I was growing up just worrying about what people thought of me, about my appearance, how I should act in school, how to... be popular and all that rubbish. Stop worrying about everything. Everything's going to be okay.

  

  Jade Thirlwall Little Mix
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

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