Popular Quotes
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I always disliked that anytime you had gays represented in - and there were some exceptions, certainly - but represented in popular fiction, they were usually the goofy neighbor next door, you know? And I just thought, 'Well, I know a lot of gay people, and they're just as varied as the heterosexual people I know.'
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'Grey's' is just a machine. I wasn't really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is.
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(My father) he would be surprised to know he was still popular today, ... He told me, when he was quitting the Marx Brothers, that their kind of comedy was old-fashioned.
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'Bush v. Gore' gave us a president who lost the popular vote, eventually appointed two more justices, and led us into a war of choice while failing to regulate a financial system dependent on toxic mortgage-backed derivatives.
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The Civil War was started over economic issues, not slavery. The War was not popular in the North until the issue of slavery was added at a later time to turn it into a moral crusade.
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When the movie was done, Number Five was crated up. Eric took him over to Germany; displayed him over there because Germans really liked this movie. It was very popular with them.
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The Beatles may be more popular than Jesus but heavy cats like Chairman Mao, Uncle Ho, and beautiful long-haired Che Guevara are more popular than The Beatles.
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I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.
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Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.
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I was in a special class, where you skip a grade - you go from seventh to ninth. But I got kicked out. You had to maintain an 85 average, and I didn't. I was too focused on trying to be popular.
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Frankly, TV stars are not that popular. In fact, I don't have even have a million followers on any of social media accounts.
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Zombies are so popular. There's a lot of chaff out there. For every one person who is legitimately passionate about zombies, there are a hundred people who are thinking, 'Hey, I can make a buck off of this.' The problem is that some of their stuff is so lame.
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I was not a popular little girl. I played Robinson Crusoe in a small wooden fort that my parents built for me in the back yard. In the fort, I was neither ostracized nor ill at ease - I was self-reliant, brave, ingeniously surviving, if lost.
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Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.
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The final sentence here is an expression of what became known as the Pragmatic maxim, first published in 'Illustrations of the Logic of Science' in Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 12 (January 1878), p. 286
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I really look up to Louis C.K. I think he's great. And obviously he's very popular, more popular than me. Years ago, I was thinking, naively, it would be great to be that popular. And then I thought about it and then I realized that, with his money and his level of notoriety, he has all of the same emotions that I do.
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I don't want to be subsumed into popular culture and played on the radio next to some garbage music.
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The truth is that real history was a lot more complicated than our popular understandings lead us to believe.
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Popular broadcast shows and movies have their closed captions stripped when they go to the Internet.
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I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.
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Americans think that if you're popular, there must be something wrong with you.
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Contrary to popular belief, the outskirts are not where the world ends - they are precisely where it begins to unfurl.
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I was not a very popular kid in high school, and I had this idea that the way that I dressed would change how liked I was. It was that kind of Pygmalion story. I think, ultimately that's probably why I became interested in fashion, its transformative power, and how it can change your identity.
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Personally, I've never been popular, so I'm not surprised that professionally I'm a bit out of step, too.
