Popular Quotes
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Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley Crouch likes to say, if you make a movie and 10 million people go see it, you'll gross $100 million - and 96 per cent of the population won't have to be involved. That alone should caution anyone about reading too much into individual examples of popular culture.
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I am one with the popular culture.
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The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.
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Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
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Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. True glory, on the other hand, resembles a woman of sense; her admirers must play no tricks. They feel no great anxiety, for they are sure in the end of being rewarded in proportion to their merit.
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It is a coup because while the Brazilian Constitution allows for impeachment, it's necessary for the person to have committed what we call high crimes and misdemeanors. And President Dilma did not commit a high crime nor misdemeanor. Therefore, what is happening is an attempt by some to take power by disrespecting the popular vote.
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People must talk. But they make you popular; that’s the truth.
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All I ever did was supply a demand that was pretty popular.
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You don't always have to be popular and do things everyone else is doing.
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If only Jesus' followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.
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I've always been interested in the news, but I've always been interested in what's popular. I've always had a little bit of a populist take on things. Which I know is interesting when you talk about Donald Trump.
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The Thin Man was a good break, because it was highly popular. I played a gigolo in it.
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If I can't find a way to love it, I let it go. Kind of the opposite of the popular homily.
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Americans think that if you're popular, there must be something wrong with you.
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In my opinion, Jimmie Johnson should be our most popular guy because he's won seven championships.
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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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I really just like acting. I'm not always aware of what is hip and what is popular and what is zeitgeist.
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I'd rather sit at home than be a part of a popular show and be a piece of furniture.
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Wherever Christianity has produced what historians call a 'popular piety' claiming to be part of the national heritage, anti-Christian reaction among the intelligentsia has followed.
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In much of today's popular culture, the virtues of forgiveness and kindness are belittled, while ridicule, anger, and harsh criticism are encouraged. Let us not hurt the ones we love the most by selfish criticism!
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Originally, 'Popular' was going to be a movie.
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Popular and good and bad is not the same thing.
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I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.
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I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic genres, whether it was folk tales or popular novels.
