Quotes About Popularity

You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.

I've done 'Yo Gabba Gabba!' I've done... oh, it's not called 'Rapunzel' anymore. 'Tangled', that's it. Those are both huge.

People very rarely know my real name but recognise me as characters from my shows, such as 'Last Tango In Halifax.'

Let the circle of celebrity be unbroken. Amen.

It's a tiny bestseller, but, officially yes. But, hey, most people haven't read Moby-Dick, so why the hell should they read my book?

When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal.

Facebook page had more friends than Ashton

Well-liked… a dangerous quality in a leader.

Do not be lured by the need to be liked: better to be respected, even feared. Victory over your enemies will bring you a more lasting popularity.

This is the end of everything' (he said), 'at least it is the end of the career of Toad, which is the same thing; the popular

not know or had scarcely heard of, like Ingrid Bergman or Marilyn Monroe.

So now I'm popular?" Freya says. "They hate me, and I hit someone, and now they like me?

Wow, he must get more ass than a toilet seat!

It's the latest popular song, declared the phonograph, speaking in a sulky tone of voice. A popular song? Yes. One that the feeble-minded can remember the words of and those ignorant of music can whistle or sing. That makes a popular song popular, and the time is coming when it will take the place of all other songs.

I don't feel like I have a super straightforward relationship with the idea of fame. It makes me sort of level things out in my own brain almost immediately when I meet someone.

Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.

Thou shalt not think that thou be a leader, merely because thee be having more than 0 followers.

Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.

We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are.

I'm like President Bush. You may not like me, you may not respect me, but you voted me in.

When I was 20, I wanted to be famous and win a Grammy and have people respect and love me.

Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.

No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.

Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded.