Popular Quotes
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Before 'American Idol' and all this stuff, I was obsessed with music charts, and I used to go online to find out what was popular in other countries. I'd log on to the BBC website, and that's how I found out about artists like Natasha Bedingfield, Daniel Bedingfield and Take That.
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My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around Chicago performing popular songs. Her voice was like Gladys Knight mixed with Aretha Franklin.
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People feel like they know you because they've read about you, and people who don't know me seem to have warm feelings about me. I seem to be popular with women. I go into the loo in restaurants, and they all say, 'Oh, I love you.' It's odd, but it's really nice, too.
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People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular.
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Making loans and fighting poverty are normally two of the least glamorous pursuits around, but put the two together and you have an economic innovation that has become not just popular but downright chic. The innovation - microfinance - involves making small loans to poor entrepreneurs, usually in developing countries.
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We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good.
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Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue.
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I really see low-fare carriers, quality low-fare carriers anyway, continuing to become more and more popular.
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In many cities, it's become popular to hate 'gentrifiers,' rich people who move in and drive up housing prices - pushing everyone else out.
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There are two important things to remember about 'entitlements': They are hugely popular programs for a very good reason, and actual sensible 'reform' would mean improving them, not sacrificing them at the altar of 'fiscal responsibility.'
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I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the really popular guys, you have the nerdy guys, and then you have the people who really don't care - and that was me. I wasn't really picked on or anything like that.
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My great uncle was in 'Dad's Army.' And I don't know if Americans will know that. It was a hugely popular show in England.
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I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office.
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I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture?
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I'm not politically committed at all in the popular sense; that is, to any party. I'm committed to whatever's best for the normal working person. I'm not a great fan of politics.
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Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.
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Look at the way sports, music and film have become driving forces of popular culture. Fashion is the fourth pillar.
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Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.
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I'm still going to sing these songs because trap is a type of music very popular in the streets, and people want to hear it.
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I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.
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Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
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Most of my ukulele heroes were traditional players from Hawaii, like Eddie Kamae and Ohta-san. There may not be uke stars in popular culture, but there are certainly pop stars that play uke - George Harrison, Eddie Vedder, Taylor Swift, Train, and Paul McCartney.
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We have a huge struggle for our sense of what a democracy is. We're not living in reality when we think we have some sort of democracy. We're really on the edge. We have two presidents who lost the popular vote but won the election. This is not working.
