Quotes About Popularity

There's still a lot of people who don't like me, but they are now overshadowed by the people who do like me.

Honestly, man, I'm not somebody who wants the celebrity. I could really care less about that stuff. I know everyone says it, but I get overwhelmed by it all sometimes.

I was overwhelmed when people started to know who I was.

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.

Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?

Ten years after the Boston Tea Party, tea was still far more popular than coffee, which only became the more popular drink in the mid-nineteenth century. Coffee's popularity grew after the duty on imports was abolished in 1832, making it more affordable. The duty was briefly reintroduced during the Civil War but was abolished again in 1872.

Stronger! stronger! grow they all, Who for Coca-Cola call. Brighter! brighter! thinkers think, When they Coca-Cola drink. —Coca-Cola advertising slogan, 1896

More attractive metaphors create more popular buildings.

Do you want to become famous? Do famous things.

Whats right isn't always popular and whats popular isn't always right.

I'm in that comfortable niche where I'm not that famous and sometimes people do need to put a barrier between them and their followers. When you're real famous you need to do that but I'm not that famous so I don't need that kind of barrier.

I believe it's a bore to be famous," said the Joxter. "Perhaps it's fun at first, but then I suppose you get used to it, and soon you're sick of it. Like on a merry-go-round.

I remember when metal was something you really had to search out, and now I hear it on car commercials.

So You Want to Be Famous

Wanting to be popular with your direct reports instead of holding them accountable.

wonder if anyone in the world works harder at anything than American school kids work at popularity. Navy SEALS and neurosurgery residents seem slackers by comparison.

To become more popular, you need to be constantly doing things that bring you close to other popular people, and nothing brings people closer than a common enemy.

Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requires. Unless they also happen to be good-looking, natural athletes, or siblings of popular kids, they'll tend to become nerds.

I made myself very popular with the group by showing them how to shut it [a loudspeaker] off. I wrapped a rubber band around the metal stump and this rubber offered enough of a grip to shut the thing off.

Liars...are people who seek popularity and recognition. Even when faced with truth, they always find a way to escape, coldly repeating what had just been said or blaming the accuser of speaking untruths.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross