Quotes About Popularity

To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.

When we were young, we unconsciously chose friends with similar values. We didn't like dealing with individuals, for example, who were not truthful. They concerned us. Lying seemed so silly, so unnecessary. Nobody likes dishonesty. I remember associating with people who often were not the most popular in the school, but they were respected. And one of the reasons they were respected was because they had integrity.

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: It wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the macarena.

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.

I'm sure a bunch of 15-year-old kids would way rather I do 'Superbad 2' than 'Moneyball.' But I would love to do movies like 'Superbad' and movies like 'Moneyball.'

The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like 'Mad Men' is disgusting. It's a super disgusting part of our culture, but I still find it funny to make a joke about it.

I've never had issues with popularity. I was always a popular guy... I've always had friends and loved ones and everything, so it wasn't like, 'Oh man, I gotta fill some void that was left by high school.' I had a great high-school experience.

and if he had been a different kind of president—he might have sent troops somewhere (as six of his predecessors had) or bombed some country (as all of his successors have). That would have ultimately been more popular than canceling US participation in the Olympics and slamming the farm belt and nascent tech sector with embargoes. In the end, Carter managed to show resolve without imperiling American lives—just as he intended.

All you need in politics is name recognition, even if the name is shit.

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.

Maybe Socrates would rather be right than popular, but most of us prefer to maintain our good standing with our tribe, a reasonable call when one considers that Socrates was executed by his fellow citizens.

Would you know the secret of popularity? It is unconsciousness of self, altruistic interest, and inward kindliness, outwardly expressed in good manners.

And it's absurd, how people hang on every word

I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two.

Lo importante en los programas —radio o televisión— es divertir y asombrar; su objetivo debe ser ganar audiencia, por lo que el nivel cultural y de contenidos toca fondo, es nulo. No olvidemos la cantidad de personas que siguen estos programas.

I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.

Fame and success are very different things.

The gradual increase in popularity of the Mersey sound forced musicians like me to almost go underground, as if we were anarchists, plotting to overthrow the music establishment. It seemed that the "trad jazz" movement was dying, and was taking folk and blues with it.

It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey.

They had thought that going about everything through legal means would expose Hitler's crimes, would avoid the grim possibility of sparking a civil war, and would avoid turning him into a martyr, since his popularity was soaring. But Hitler must make the first move. When he did, the army would stage its coup, and everything would be different.

Fame clearly breeds a false sense of security.

The whole sport of high-performance windsurfing really started from that. As soon as I did it, there were about ten of us who sailed all the time together and within one or two days there were various boards out there that had footstraps of various kinds on them, and we were all going fast and jumping waves and stuff. It just kind of snowballed from there. (Shah 2000) By 1998, more than a million people were engaged

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.