Popular Quotes

• For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Music
  • Magic
  • Popular

• 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

• Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Right
  • Wage
  • Minimum Wage

• I think love is important, but it's not popular.

  

  BJ the Chicago Kid
  • Important
  • Popular

• The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • People
  • Real
  • Truth

• I never wanted to do music to get girls, right, to get popular, or anything like that. I really love music and I want to make it better the best I can. I can tell when something's real, or when something's put together. I can just feel it. So I'm my own worst critic and harshest critic and I just want to put honest music out there.

  

  Aaron Bruno
  • Music
  • Real
  • Together

• 'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I'll ever top it.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Done
  • Think
  • Princess

• I was really heavy growing up, so it was never feeling like the pretty girl, never being popular.

  

  Elle Varner
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• There's nobody in the world I'd sooner oblige than you and this young gentleman here. But the whole thing's nonsense, and conventionality, and popular thick-headedness. There's absolutely nothing to fight about, from beginning to end. And anyhow I'm not going to, so that settles it!

  

  Kenneth Grahame
  • World
  • Beginning
  • Gentleman

• Some of these pro-drug messages come from popular culture.

  

  John Walters
  • Culture
  • Popular
  • Drug

• In the early '80s, the arcade game Pac-Man was twice as popular as oxygen.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • Game
  • Popular

• When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn't say that I wasn't popular. I was a cheerleader when I was in junior high. I didn't make it in high school so I started a dance line.

  

  Faith Ford
  • School
  • High
  • Dance

• Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Time
  • Great
  • Wisdom

• Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind.

  

  John Dos Passos
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Imagination

• Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very very important part of what holds our project together.

  

  Jimmy Wales
  • Important
  • Together
  • Popular

• It took me two years to get an appointment with Mr. Suga who cut my hair for the Olympics. Who knew? I had no idea that it would be popular.

  

  Dorothy Hamill
  • Hair
  • Popular

• I wrote and drew my own books on notebook paper, and I'd staple 'em together. I had my own fictional company, and we had our own thinly veiled offshoots of whatever was popular at Marvel and DC at the time.

  

  Jason Aaron
  • Time
  • Together
  • Popular

• My first joke that ever aired on 'Late Night' was for a list of 'Top 10 Least Popular Summer Camps.' My contribution - 'Camp Tick in beautiful Lyme, Connecticut' - squeaked in at No. 10. Like a trip to Camp Tick, my time at 'Late Night' faded into memory like a short session at a dicey summer camp.

  

  Nell Scovell
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Night

• Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Power
  • Support
  • Powerful

• You really need to decide, if you're an actor in Hollywood, whether you want to be faithful to the Lord or you want to be popular, because chances are you're not going to be both.

  

  Kirk Cameron
  • Popular

• Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Great
  • Acting
  • Short

• You are not in business to be popular.

  

  Kirstie Alley
  • Business
  • Popular

• There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians.

  

  Dweezil Zappa
  • People
  • Good
  • Popular

• Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.

  

  Christina Romer
  • Popular

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