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Quotes About Popularity

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison.
~ Unknown
Amid all the information available in our environment, which identity filter(s) do you use? Are you dedicated to popularity, to a role, to a cause, an ethic, a nation, an ethnicity? What identity gives meaning to your life?
~ Margaret J. Wheatley
Sociologist James Evan reviewed citations in more than thirty-four million articles published in academic journals and noted how the number of different citations declined after the advent of search engines. These information-filtering tools, he observed, "serve as amplifiers of popularity, quickly establishing and then continually reinforcing a consensus about what information is important and what isn't."36
~ Margaret J. Wheatley
To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.
~ Margaret Oliphant
If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
~ Margaret Thatcher
If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at anytime, and would achieve nothing.
~ Margaret Thatcher
well it used to be about trying to do something, now it is about trying to be someone
~ Margaret Thatcher
My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas, and that scores me points.
~ Margot Kidder
The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.
~ Margot Kidder
Hi, you've reached Caitlin! I'm either on the other line or I'm purposely ignoring you. Or maybe Mrs. Mitchell confiscated my phone for texting in class again... Leave a message and if I deem you worthy, or at least hot, I'll call you back. Mwah!
~ Mari Mancusi
how many times the video had been watched—all thirteen thousand, four hundred, and thirty-one viewings.
~ Unknown
The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the eyes of the universe.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
The people in the popular group say there is no peer pressure because they are at the top of the food chain. Really what they are doing is just eating away at everybody else.
~ Lauren Greenfield
Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports.
~ Eric Schlosser
The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.
~ Arthur Miller
A friend to all is a friend to none.
~ Aristotle
He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.
~ Eddie Cantor
A fav'rite has no friend!
~ Thomas Gray
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
~ Henry James
Be liked and you will never want.
~ Arthur Miller
A few caring kind quality friends are worth more than any amount of shallow popularity.
~ Rachel Hamilton
I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.
~ Richard Pryor
I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-quality dog meat. I'm the Alpo of the NBA.
~ Shaquille O'Neal
I don't care how much you may think they're funny or how interesting they may sound. If we nominate someone that 40 to 50 percent of our party doesn't - can't stand, we are going to lose.
~ Marco Rubio