Popular Quotes
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In a fast-paced world, today's popular brand could be tomorrow's trivia question.
D. Wayne Calloway
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When a show is popular, sometimes the industry dismisses it.
Franklin Cover
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I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?
Kevin Costner
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'The Green Turtle' wasn't all that popular. He lasted only five issues of Blazing Comics before disappearing into obscurity.
Gene Luen Yang
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Your mother is not crazy. Neither, contrary to popular belief, is your brother. He is merely miscast in a play. He would have made the perfect knight in a different century, or a very good pagan prince in a time of heroes. He was born in the wrong era, on the wrong side of the river, with the ability to do anything and finding nothing he wants to do.
S. E. Hinton
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The European Union has become a prison of peoples. Each of the 28 countries that constitute it has slowly lost its democratic prerogatives to commissions and councils with no popular mandate. Every nation in the union has had to apply laws it did not want for itself.
Marine Le Pen
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I was never popular. I always kind of wanted to be accepted with the rich kids, with the cool kids, and I never had that.
Jon Jones
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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.
David Droga
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We approached Yahoo and Jerry Yang and said that Hadoop is going to continue to be popular, and as it does, more and more of your team is going to get poached by other companies and come under pressure to leave. This way, you can control your own fate and destiny.
Peter Fenton Siouxsie and the Banshees
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I remain, however, fairly optimistic for the future of period drama because it's just such a popular thing.
Andrew Davies
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I think now Messi is probably done more than most players. But he is in the same class as Alfredo de Stefano, Johan Cruyff, Pelé. When he finishes and he retires, he will automatically become one of them. A player that people will talk about forever, while the game of football is as good and as popular as it is. He is a sensational player.
Bobby Charlton
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I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.
August Strindberg
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If cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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I particularly enjoy cello music because our daughter plays the cello. I have listened to her practice for so many hours that I am familiar with the music written for that instrument. I am also fond of the popular music of the 1930s because my future husband and I danced to it so many Saturday nights when we were in college.
Beverly Cleary
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I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.
T Bone Burnett
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Most popular records are action-packed to the last semi-quaver.
Chris Squire Cinema
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You have to think like a designer. You have to establish the trend four seasons before it becomes popular.
Kanye West
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Don't live vicariously through your kids or try to shape them into who you wanted to be, like the popular kid or an athlete. Children should be given the opportunity to be themselves.
Joan Cusack
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I worked in a Starbucks that wasn't very popular - before the big coffee boom in London. My boss didn't take kindly to my incessant sitting. I was like, 'Look, I've dusted everything, the stockroom is all figured out... I would rather sit now so I have the energy when a customer does come in.'
Andrew Garfield
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Whatever you say about popular culture, people like people who know things, who are experts, and it doesn't particularly matter what they look like.
Mary Beard
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Ugly is very popular this year...I had a feeling these clothes were deigned by someone who didn't like women.
Andy Rooney
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The decisions I've made have not always been the most popular, but when I look back, I want to know I've played for good football teams.
Alan Smith
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Popular is not the same important, or often, not the same as good.
Seth Godin
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Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment by fathers to the future well-being of their families.
James Surowiecki