A Quote by Andrew Lansley
I didn't go into politics because I wanted to win a popularity contest.
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Before Rocky III, I was minding my own business, there was a Tough Man contest. I won that contest two years in a row and I didn't win because I was the toughest, the roughest or the baddest. I won when I was training for the contest, I told my pastor "They're having a contest and when I win the contest I'm a give you the money so you can buy food and clothes for the less fortunate people in the community." That was what Mr. T was about, that was back in 1979. I didn't have a car then but that's what I'm about.
I'm not here to win a popularity contest.
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You don't have to like me as a person - I understand that I can get on people's nerves with the antics I do in the ring. This is not a popularity contest. I'm trying to do whatever I can to win the fight.
You are not a leader to win a popularity contest-you are a leader to lead.
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Leadership is not a contest of likeability. Leadership often boils down to making the tougher choices. You are not in a popularity contest.
Why don’t the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.
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I'll put it like this: When I was in high school, I would never win a popularity contest back then... it was always somebody else that got picked first for whatever reason. But all those people that went before me usually dropped the ball... then I'd get my shot.
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