Popularity Quotes
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The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.
Horace -
I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.
Ravi Shankar
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Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.
Horace Greeley -
I think the general public's response to my projects is very strong. You can be an intellectual and say that popularity detracts from architectural quality. On the other hand, you can see in the public's identification something very positive.
Moshe Safdie -
We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.
Brigham Young -
Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.
William Butler Yeats -
Social networking sites like Myspace, Friendster, and Facebook have literally exploded in popularity in just a few short years.
Mike Fitzpatrick -
They gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds. Tolkien became...devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity of the time. The gap widened between the beauty, the seriousness of the work, and what it has become is beyond me. This level of marketing reduces to nothing the aesthetic and philosophical significance of this work.
Christopher Tolkien
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Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.
George Will -
As the popularity of science-fiction increases, so inevitably does the volume of clownish imprecation against it.
Edmund Crispin -
Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.
Wilson Mizner -
There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.
Jonathan Mayhew -
The popularity of the famous device of the use of lands into England is said to be largely due to the mendicant friars of the then new Orders of St. Dominic and St. Francis, who, arriving in this country, in the first half of the thirteenth century, found themselves hampered by their own vows of poverty, no less than by the growing feeling against Mortmain in acquiring the provision of land absolutely necessary for their rapidly developing work.
Edward Jenks -
Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.
Ethel Merman
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We must be devoted to sound principles in word and deed: principle above party, principle above pocketbook, principle above popularity.
Ezra Taft Benson -
It's always about staying competitive with myself... Popularity is something that may happen from time to time, and I don't trust it and I don't think it means too much. I'm going for greatness.
Ezra Furman -
You know, it's a wonderful thing. I have to say that some of the greatest actors I've ever worked with have been doing anime for years. It's not just because of the popularity, either.
Steven Blum