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Quotes About Popularity

Kleos is sometimes translated as acoustic renown the spreading renown you get from people talking about your exploits. It's a bit like having a large Twitter following.
~ Rebecca Goldstein
Honestly, Edythe, Mama says, like she's going to give her the most important advice in the world, If you continue acting this way, you will be unpopular for the rest of your life. I wish I could go someplace far away
~ Rebecca Wells
Celebrity has its uses. I can always get a seat in any restaurant. Source: Esquire Magazine, June 2000 original edition
~ Julia Child
Don't sell yourself short, young man,' he said sternly. 'These people don't need charisma. They need hard work and the truth- exactly what you've given them. ... Popularity isn't everything. In fact, it isn't anything when you get right down to it. The majority is rarely right.
~ Karen Hancock
Not everyone is going to like you, son. And good people don't do good so that they'll win popularity contests. They do good because its the right thing to do.
~ Karen Rose
Their whole life, they're the center of attention. People want to be around them just because they're attractive. Their jokes are funnier. Their lives are better. And then suddenly, they get bags under their eyes or they put on a little weight and no one cares about
~ Karin Slaughter
When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Ce n'est pas parce qu'un livre n'a pas de succès qu'il est forcément bon.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Thinking is underrated. I don't think thinking is a popular pastime these days due to the fact there's always something else on offer that you could be doing instead. Maybe people also don't like to do it as much as it's now harder due to noise.
~ Karl Pilkington
I must have had about 30 to 40 people surrounding me. I'd seen footage of Gandhi surrounded like this and always thought it was because he was very popular, but now I wonder if it was just because he had a camera crew with him.
~ Karl Pilkington
The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.
~ John Dryden
No man can hope to be elected in his state without being photographed eating a hot dog at Nathan's Famous.
~ Nelson Rockefeller
I'm playing second fiddle to Justin Bieber - Bieber Fever is sweeping our house, and my girls have made it clear I'm no longer their favourite man.
~ Steven Gerrard
Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
~ Fiona Shaw
About 30 million people see me every week - I'm a happy man.
~ Richard Dawson
It's the cable shows that are really the most interesting - 'Mad Men,' 'Breaking Bad,' those shows are really the premiere shows on television right now.
~ Dylan McDermott
In the industry, I got a lot of attention for Mad Men, because everyone in the industry watches it.
~ Sarah Drew
Whether you like it or not, this man is the future of the WWE and I really wouldn't talk to him like that. Because he is The Miz and he is awesome.
~ Alex Riley
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
~ Ben Jonson
Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States.
~ Duff Green
Th' dead ar-re always pop'lar. I knowed a society wanst to vote a monyment to a man an' refuse to help his fam'ly, all in wan night.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When a man is once in fashion, all he does is right.
~ Lord Chesterfield
When I was at Manchester, where there was a modern swimming pool, I was looked on as a great man, not for so trivial a reason as being an FRS, but because I used to dive off a five-metre board.
~ Louis J. Mordell