A Quote by James Levine

Art has never been a popularity contest.

James Levine

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James Levine
American - Musician
Born: June 23, 1943

I'm not in this business to win a popularity contest, I just want to be a good actor. Well, you've failed at being a good actor. Why not try for the popularity contest?

Roger Moore

Leadership is not a contest of likeability. Leadership often boils down to making the tougher choices. You are not in a popularity contest.

Paul Polman

Life is not a popularity contest

Susun Weed

I'm not here to win a popularity contest.

Gary Bettman

All language is a popularity contest.

Erin McKean

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

William Devane

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

Al Gore

I didn't go into politics because I wanted to win a popularity contest.

Andrew Lansley

It's not a popularity contest to me. It should always be about the music.

Gabriella Wilson

Making economic policy isn't a popularity contest, especially when financial markets are in a panic.

David Ignatius

I'm not here to win a popularity contest. I'm here to work and have a career. Let the haters hate. I'm ready for the criticism.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

Sometimes music can really seem like a popularity contest with beautiful people.

Tom Walker

I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which follows; not that which is run after. It is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends, by noble means.

William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

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.

Charlie Murphy

Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience.