Popularity Quotes
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There are certain basic principles regarding the proper role of government. If principles are correct, then they can be applied to any specific proposal with confidence... The true statesman values principle above popularity, and works to create popularity for those political principles which are wise and just.
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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.
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I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.
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Popularity is when other people like you. Happiness is when you like yourself.
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Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.
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Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father, so mother feels she must go to work to satisfy her children's needs. That decision can be most shortsighted.
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Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.
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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.
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There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.
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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
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Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that English is becoming the world's universal tongue: English-speaking natives don't care how badly others speak English as long as they speak it. French, once considered likely to become the world's lingua franca, has lost popularity because those who are born speaking it reject this liberal attitude and become depressed, insulted or insufferable when their language is ill used.
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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.
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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.
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We must be devoted to sound principles in word and deed: principle above party, principle above pocketbook, principle above popularity.
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Social networking sites like Myspace, Friendster, and Facebook have literally exploded in popularity in just a few short years.
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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.
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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.
