Quotes About Popularity

You put a movie star or a bunch of movie stars in a movie, it doesn't mean people are gonna go see it. It's been proven time and time again.

Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away.

Governors have to balance budgets. And they have to make decisions. And they have to do things that sometimes aren't popular. And they also have to bring people together to try to solve problems.

Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.

But it was not so much the fresh air that she needed as a few minutes of solitude, a few minutes in which to collect herself. She stood to the side of one open doorway, half hidden by the heavy velvet drapery, and felt a raw ache at the back of her throat. She wanted to cry, she realized. For all the great popularity and success the evening was bringing her she felt a terrible loneliness.

Different versions of genes rise and fall in popularity driven often by the rise and fall of diseases. There is a regrettable human tendency to exaggerate stability, to believe in equilibrium.

I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.

Joe looked at the name on Axe's BlackBerry and then turned to me. "Who the hell is Sarah Palin?

I find comfort in the fact that the longer I'm in politics the less nourishing popularity becomes, that a striving for power and rank and fame seems to betray a poverty of ambition, and that I am answerable mainly to the steady gaze of my own conscience.

Most kids don't give a hoot in hell for brains; they go a penny a pound, and the kid with the high I.Q. who can't play baseball or at least come in third in the local circle jerk is everybody's fifth wheel.

There'll always be a market for shit, of course. Just look at Jeffrey Archer! He writes like old people fuck doesn't he?

The cult of celebrity is cogitative shit running through the bowel of the intellect.

The man who in times of popular excitement boldly and unflinchingly resists hot-tempered clamor for an unnecessary war, and thus exposes himself to the opprobrious imputation of a lack of patriotism or of courage, to the end of saving his country from a great calamity, is, as to 'loving and faithfully serving his country,' at least as good a patriot as the hero of the most daring feat of arms," Schurz

Urgent matters are usually visible. They press on us; they insist on action. They're often popular with others. They're usually right in front of us. And often they are pleasant, easy, fun to do. But so often they are unimportant!

you can indulge them. You can go for the golden egg of popularity, of pleasing them, giving them their way all the time. Then they grow up without any internal sense of standards or expectations, without a personal commitment to being disciplined or responsible.

Urgent matters are usually visible. They press on us; they insist on action. They're often popular with others. They're usually right in front of us. And often they are pleasant, easy, fun to do. But so often they are unimportant! Importance, on the other hand, has to do with results. If something is important, it contributes to your mission, your values, your high priority goals.

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

All this in no way discounts her attractiveness. Mirabelle is attractive; it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen.

un padre dominante se parece enormemente al candidato político que cree que el dinero gana elecciones, cuando en realidad si un candidato no gusta a los votantes no saldrá elegido ni con todo el dinero del mundo.

Oscar Wilde's prophecy that "as long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

I want to make music that lots of people will love.

People love gossip. It's the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going.

If you're sexy, everybody will love you. That's what I wanted -- for everybody to love me.

Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello