Quotes About Popularity

Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives' guy. He didn't try to be what he wasn't. He just did what he did - made great music, was a good entertainer, nice-enough guy.

I don't hang out with the Hollywood cool people. I'm not out trying to make friends with people because they're famous.

In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.

You're unusual. That's better than popular if you have some courage.

It takes no courage to say or do what's popular.

Why does every girl in the world wanna date me? Especially right now man, especially when I'm busy!

As you keep getting more popular, people are continually wanting more from you and it seems to me that all they want in the end is your death.

So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good.

About my breasts giving me confidence? I know I have something people will like, people will be jealous of, people will want. To have the confidence that you will be wanted - that's what confidence is. Confidence that you will be approved of, thought well of, desired. If you know that, then you're confindent.

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings — nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you

Yo he alcanzado este popular renombre por una cierta clase de sabiduría que poseo. ¿De qué sabiduría se trata? Ciertamente, de una sabiduría propia de los humanos. Y en ella es posible que yo sea sabio

Yeah, I know. Terror Aerobics. Just wait until they get it at the gym. It'll be bigge than pilates. --Eve

He asked me to be his girlfriend and asked me to Homecoming…" "Wow. That sucks. I hate it when hot, popular guys do that stuff to me. I mean, asking you to be his girlfriend? Sounds like he deserved to be kicked to the curb. Girl power.

They just want to be liked. Being liked is their . . . sugar rush.

Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.

Women don't find me as appealing as they do, say, that singer Justin Bieber. But I take comfort from the fact that Justin Bieber wouldn't know how to escape from a walk-in freezer after being chained there by a couple of huge guys in porkpie hats. He couldn't sing his way out of a spot like that; inevitably, he would be a Biebersicle.

Three million hardcovers flew off shelves. Film rights sold in a frantic auction.

His second novel spent one week on the bestseller list, sold forty thousand copies

Wanting to be liked can get in the way of truth.

People would talk about it, and I hoped I would be liked.

You must not suggest any hint of scandal, and - just as important - you must not cause jealousy. Be sweet and unassuming, always admire your companions' frocks and dismiss your own, and do not bat your eyes at their sons or brothers, should such be present. […] And as she had no intention whatever of attracting a potential husband, she was extremely popular with the young women of society. (A Fugitive Green)

I didn't have any aspirations to be famous at all.

I never walk into a room and assume everyone knows who Raheem DeVaughn is.

There are so many other way more popular athletes than me.