Popular Quotes
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I've invented several games for use as teaching tools in my classroom: one of them, a game called 'Iron Age: Council of the Clans,' got so popular among my students that they encouraged me to publish it, which I did.
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Low-volatility funds, which tend to smooth out performance, have been especially popular since the financial crisis. The PowerShares S&P 500 Low Volatility Fund is the oldest, begun in 2011.
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All I've ever wanted to do is move the needle on popular culture.
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A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation - or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays - is like a blind man's dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.
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I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.
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I got this book called 'How to Write the Popular Song.' I read that and went through all the things they suggested, and I learned how to do it.
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Contrary to popular belief, I have always had a wonderful repertoire with my players.
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Being a popular director or actor's son can be frightening in this industry. What if you are not able to make it?
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I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.
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My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.
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I think you could argue that President Obama could have watched a little cable news... I do think that there is value in understanding where the conversation is and having a little less detachment where the popular conversation is.
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While the nerds were being trained to get the right answers, the popular kids were being trained to please.
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I grew up surrounded by tennis, so I was obviously more interested in it than football - particularly as it's the most popular sport.
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A sympathetic parent might see the spark of consciousness in a baby's large eyes and eagerly accept the popular claim that babies are wonderful learners, but it is hard to avoid the impression that they begin as ignorant as bread loaves.
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Brands and branding are the most significant gifts that commerce has ever made to popular culture.
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You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.
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I love Texas. Even if I am a little bit famous or a little bit popular... You go to places where you're not and just live like everybody else lives. I'm not crazy about this country in terms of the shape it's in, but I do think there are lots of great pieces to go to. I think I should take advantage of it while this country still exists.
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Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.
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'Oxygene' was one of the first, if not the first, popular electronic music album.
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I find it extremely tiring that we have to be popular and have to beg for likes.
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Evolution is the most popular way we have for dealing with change.
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Sometimes being different is not going to be the most popular thing. But you have to be confident in you and what you know is right and stand firm. You may lose friends over it. Families may even split up because of it. But that's the price to pay. That's the cross to bear when you really live your life for Christ.
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I find pop art really offensive because it's taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can't see it.
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Dr. King was unpopular while he was alive - he's only popular now because he's dead and not a threat to anyone.
