Quotes About Popularity

I was much inclined to abolish for ever the practice of allowing the people corn at the public expense, because they trust so much to it, that they are too lazy to till their lands; but I did not persevere in my design, as I felt sure that the practice would some time or other be revived by some one ambitious of popular favour.

John Barleycorn's final words: "I've had more friends in private and more foes in public than any other man in America.

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter.

My hat was pulled down and this girl said 'Are you really him?' I whispered 'Yeah, I'm really him.' She screamed, 'Mom! Dad! It's Heath Ledger!

I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it.

It's just cool to me that Bon Jovi knows my name!

My whole thing is that I want to explore why you read books, what's the purpose of reading, and maybe that it's not that cool to hate something just because it's popular.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.

It doesn't even matter if they out-and-out abhor me, Because when I am done with them, they'll totally adore me.

Men are always more interested in a woman if they think other men are interested." - Simon Basset

But this was Penelope, and even though Eloise was her very best friend, and thus her finest champion, even she couldn't imagine that a man of Colin's reputation and popularity would be interested in a woman of Penelope's reputation and (lack of) popularity.

I want to bring Indian music to the mainstream.

At school, I felt out of place. I was bullied. I would think, 'These kids don't like me, they don't accept me,' but I felt like in the entertainment industry, I would fit in.

You can become famous but you can't become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous.

I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult.

I will either be famous or infamous.

It doesn't matter if you're famous or infamous. All that matters is you're a celebrity.

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

I like hot people being hot. How else do you explain my high school infatuation with Ricky Martin in all his shirtless glory?

If a show is wickedly, hugely popular, like 'Mad Men,' I assume that the masses, in their infinite inferiority to me, don't know what good TV is and that everyone is just brainwashed.

You shouldn't inflict yourself on the public when your fifteen minutes is up.

Probably my two biggest musical influences were the Everly Brothers and the Beatles, in chronological order. Both of them have had a very simple-sounding musical style that's actually quite complex as far as popular songs are concerned.

It can be disheartening to see acts that don't necessarily have any input on their own material to do so well in the charts.