Popular Quotes
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Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.
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My father has been a major force in the popular culture for a long, long time. He's a fascinating person.
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Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.
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Because homecoming came first, and there was the homecoming court. The five guys on homecoming court were disqualified from being in the prom court. So being prom king was being sixth most popular.
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Opera became popular in Texas the same way it did in a lot of previously isolated regions of the nation. It started with money. In the case of Texas, it was oil money, and it made a lot of people very rich, very fast.
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It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.
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These days I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist, but I don't really think my views do deviate from the Reformed tradition, though in some respects they may represent views that are not as popular now as they once were, or that may represent a minority report in the tradition.
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The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.
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I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.
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Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.
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We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we're lucky. And it's amazing how often people have lost sight of this.
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It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'.
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Long before social media existed, the proto-tweets of advertising had penetrated American popular culture: 'A mind is a terrible thing to waste.' 'Where's the beef?' 'A diamond is forever.' 'Think different.' You'd be hard pressed to find a writer's craft that has more directly influenced the vernacular.
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There are few punishments too severe for a popular novel writer.
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I ended up living in braids. It was the '90s - thin braids were very popular - and my mom took me to a lady's kitchen. I got it done, and I've never stopped.
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I think that popular culture takes a long time to catch up to what's actually happening in the world. Women have had to take care of themselves for quite a while. Actually, not had to take of themselves, but have wanted to take care of themselves, so I think it's a big transition that our country and our society has been going through a long time.
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Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.
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In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.
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In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.
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The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.
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I'd have to say that Muay Thai is something special. It's really demanding and it's becoming popular all around the world.
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Artists like Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga have more sway over popular minds than a politician.
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I'd love to be popular in Barcelona. That sounds like a fun job.
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The most distinguishing element of my novels is that I try as hard as I can - within the context of a popular commercial thriller - to make them feel authentic. Drawing on real locations and real events is part of that authenticity.
