Quotes About Popularity

Sometimes, you try something, and it works in terms of success. That doesn't mean you like what is a hit. Sometimes you like the most obscure song on your album.

I love to observe children, the way they talk and express themselves. 'Talk to my hand' is something I heard my son and his friends say. Even when I was in the U.S. attending college, it used to be a favorite snub for comments that we didn't appreciate. So I incorporated it into the act. I never imagined it would become so popular.

Pete Wentz was the Justin Bieber of 2007. Girls loved him; they obsessed over him.

As is now painfully obvious from my Twitter ban, boycotts tend to make the shunned more popular.

Obviously we were having an effect, because all these people were clamouring to meet us. Like Muhammad Ali, for instance.

Obviously, I would like to play to bigger audiences and have a bit more success, but not if I have to commercialize.

Celebrity - I don't even know what that means. Obviously it's the same basic word as celebration, but I don't know what's being celebrated.

We all enjoyed the success of Rumours obviously.

I mean, obviously, a lot of people know me around the world. Kids know me.

With every record I put out, I got a bit more success, a bigger following in cities I would play in, and occasionally a bit of radio play.

Occasionally when I look at my Instagram and see how many followers I have, it shows me how it's going up by the minute. It blows my mind, but everyone around me keeps me grounded.

It's funny: We have so many shows and so many channels and so many things to occupy people as entertainment, especially with a show like 'Scandal,' which is clearly a hit, with a lot of heat around it - but every once in a while, people will say, 'What are you doing?' and I'll say 'Scandal,' and they'll have no idea what I'm talking about.

Your suspicion attracts suspicion. Jealousy brings more jealousy, hate more hate, just as love brings love to meet it, as friendliness brings more friendliness, as sympathy and good will toward all draw the same to you from others and increase your popularity and magnetic power.

Famous at high school is like being employee of the month at the sanitation department.

Everything popular is wrong.

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

When everyone hates a person, you should investigate thoroughly, and when everyone loves a person, you should also investigate thoroughly.

I am not worried that nobody knows me. I seek to become fit to be known

At sixteen Helen was already famous, and at seventeen already forgotten, and very much alone.

And when you love people, you hate the fact that they're being treated unfairly. You tell the truth. You sacrifice your popularity for integrity. There is a willingness to give your life back to the people given that, in the end, they basically gave it to you, because we are who we are because somebody loved us anyway.

When everybody loves you. Oh! Son, that's just about as funky as you can be!