Popular Quotes
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Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
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I've done movies with Oliver Stone and Michael Mann. And I've done quite a few dramas in my time, from the theatre to film work. I just think the audience is used to seeing me on 'Saturday Night Live,' and 'K-9,' and 'Curly Sue' and of course, 'According to Jim.' I think that my comedies have been the most popular.
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I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.
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I have an odd fetish with nails. I was always doing beauty blogs about nails, and it would be on Fridays called 'Friday's Fingertip Fetish.' It became so popular that a nail polish company approached me, and Fingertip Fetish was born.
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Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
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Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in Britain. I find that very depressing.
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We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.
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What I'm trying to do is maintain some mindfulness about being popular - I wasn't so great at that last time around.
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History will record not only the transformational changes President Obama brought about, but also that in 2008, he was elected president with 69 million votes - the largest popular vote for any one person in the history of this country, based on a campaign of hope and inspiration.
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One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects.
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
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I love the idea of the amateur - that's what popular culture is all about. But what the Internet's doing is professionalizing everyone's amateuristic impulses.
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It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning.
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It's funny how all of this has worked out - I wasn't popular in high school, but now every drunken guy in the United States wants to be my pal. They all want to buy me a shot, and pretty soon I'm throwing up.
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Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.
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Well, I'm not that popular with the politicians, I have to say.
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Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs.
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Some of these pro-drug messages come from popular culture.
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Popular culture is most powerful when it offers us a vision of how our society should look - or at least reproduces our reality.
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I was really heavy growing up, so it was never feeling like the pretty girl, never being popular.
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Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics and limited monarchies derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates.
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Part of the reason why Scandinavian crime has been so popular is the landscape. It is just so strong and alien. Although without taking anything away, you should probably also never discount the fact that blood does look particularly good against snow.
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In my own work, I'd say I'm a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don't study the toilet-living habits of my clients, although that's a popular approach. First, I think of every building in history that has been similar in purpose. Then I think of the functional program - that's a major part of the study.
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Women in the U.S. are influenced by the same trends - popular culture, runway trends, etc. - and our hypothesis is that she's quite anxious to be able to buy products in her town that perhaps she hasn't been able to in the past.
