Quotes About Popularity

And here's what I realized: You Sly Girls don't cry when you watch the big-face parties on the feeds, just because you weren't invited. You don't stay friends with people you hate, just to bump your face rank. And even though nobody knows what you're doing out here, you don't feel invisible at all. Do you? No one answered, but they were listening. Fame is radically stupid, that's all. So I want to try something else.

All that is great and skilful exists with the minority. There have been ministers who have had both king and people against them, and have carried out their great plans alone. It is not to be imagined that reason can ever be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular; but reason always remains the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

Let the cymbals of popularity tinkle still. Let the butterflies of fame glitter with their wings. I shall envy neither their music nor their colors.

Tarby was a popular boy, and he was used to being right about everything.

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.

Popularity ends on yearbook day-Respect stays forever.

Popularity ends on Yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.

because a man who is everybody's friend really has no friends at all.

He'd long ago figured that you knew you were aging when you couldn't hum any tune on the Billboard Hot 100.

I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before.

I think it was Cosby who also said to me, 'If only 2 percent of the world thinks you're funny, you'll still fill stadiums for the rest of your life.'

Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.

Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'

For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

Of course it's true: the public want to see young people - young people are the people who go to the cinema. It's a sad fact of life, but you've got to accept it and not whine about it.

What mattered to me was that I didn't compromise my soul in order to try to achieve a kind of popularity. The only thing you can do is just live your life.

When you have a song on the radio your career and your life changes maybe for the better and maybe for the not so good depending on how it's going that day.

People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.

Fame separates you from life.

In South Africa, success never presented the problems that it presents in New York. In New York, if you happen to be the flavor of the month, a lot of nonsense comes with it into your life.

It's probably healthier to find fame later in life.

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. ... With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.