Top 1200 Being Popular Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross

It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'.

I'm in favor of anything that will give strong women more visibility in popular culture.

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.

I've directed fragmentarily at the Herod Atticus, but never before a popular laiko unitals concert.

I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.

I get recognised, but I'm not the sort of person who frequents popular clubs. I try to keep out of that.

Popular culture is morally bankrupt, flagrantly licentious and utterly materialistic-and Madonna is the worst of all.

And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used in any other popular songs at the time.

Popular support for alternative energy has been very high for years. But it harms corporate profits.

There are three popular theories being bandied about to explain Robert Mueller investigation, but we have to remember that it was the Donald Trump administration that decided to do this. Mueller is hiring some of the biggest Democrat lawyer donors he can find. He's hired huge donors to Barack Obama, huge donors to Hillary Clinton. He has hired fundraising lawyers, I mean, people that are lawyers in their private sector lives who have bundled and raised money. There are some on his staff who aren't, but it's noteworthy for all of the partisan leftists that Mueller has hired.

Lip Service' was initially a segment. It was so popular that Sirius wanted to make it its own show.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.

A less popular name for the Second Person of that delectable newspaper Trinity, the Roomer, the Bedder, and the Mealer.

I had no clue the songs from my films almost three decades ago are still popular.

England is a very popular foreign country to visit because the people there speak some English.

It must kill George Bush that John McCain is the most popular and Beloved Republican in America.

I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place.

Dolphins games always have been among the most popular NFL telecasts in England.

If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.

I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular.

Some dramatic event often crystallizes popular attention, and the world turns on a dime.

I was a very studious student and usually got A's. I did not like school, because I wasn't popular - I was a nerd.

The alienated man lashing out at society is a trope that popular culture loves to explore.

Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.

If we are competing in elections, it's because we believe in the popular vote and will be slaves to our constitution.

I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.

Hollywood, it's just like high school. Whoever is pretty and popular, everyone wants to be with.

I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know.

There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.

I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office.

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

The most popular form of altruism is giving to others the advice you cannot use yourself.

Science is claiming ever more ground from popular stories of the kind we thought we weren't to believe in.

REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.

The lover and the physician are each popular from the same cause - we talk to them of nothing but ourselves.

Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

I'd always thought Australia was a rugby country, but football is really developing here, and Juve are extremely popular.

I have the disadvantage of not being sociable. Wall Street men are fond of company and sport. A man makes one hundred thousand dollars there and immediately buys a yacht, begins to race fast horses, and becomes a sport generally. My tastes lie in a different direction. When business hours are over I go home and spend the remainder of the day with my wife, my children, and books of my library. Every man has natural inclinations of his own. Mine are domestic. They are not calculated to make me particularly popular in Wall Street, and I cannot help that.

There's this notion that music has to be confined to some small, simple place to be popular, something I never believed.

As is now painfully obvious from my Twitter ban, boycotts tend to make the shunned more popular.

When I come home, I am literally the most popular person with my friends' parents for doing 'The Archers.'

I owned a few ladies' apparel brands, and one of my business partners is a very popular blogger in the U.S.

Contrary to the popular caricature of him, the Duke of Edinburgh was neither judgmental nor unfeeling.

My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day.

Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary.

I grew up in Scotland in the 1970s. There was not much money. The most popular Christmas toy was probably a potato.

If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture?

Pop culture is a huge strategy for WWE: our storylines are reflective of what's happening in the world and what's popular.

George Dunne stuck his neck out for me in the '70s, when it wasn't a very popular thing to do.

Popular music is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world.

I promise that as a president elected in a direct popular vote, I will try to be the voice of all citizens.

The only way to stop the erosion in network television is to come up with shows that are very popular.

Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.

[John Foster Dulles] invented Brinkmanship, the most popular game since Monopoly.

I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I’ve relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.

MMA keeps growing and now I think it's more popular than professional boxing.

The reason for certain shows not doing well or as per expectations is that they were not aired on not so popular channels.