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You are not in business to be popular.
Acting and Actors
Kirstie Alley

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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
Colleges and Universities
Matthew Arnold

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Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
Popular Culture
Margaret Atwood

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I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
Originality
Tony Bennett

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Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.
Popularity
Yogi Berra

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The government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement.
Government
Count Boytzwnburg

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Popular applause veers with the wind.
Fame
John Bright

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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
Popularity
Thomas Carlyle

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O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
Applause
William Cowper

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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
Fame
Desiderius Erasmus

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The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
Acting and Actors
Edwin Forrest

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Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch.
Popularity
Fournier

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Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.
Kings
Charles James Fox

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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
Popularity
Margaret Fuller

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An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
Mistakes
German Proverb

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Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity.
Guests
Kin Hubbard

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Popularity? It's glory's small change.
Popularity
Victor Hugo

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To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Popularity
Aldous Huxley

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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
Religion
Dean William R. Inge

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Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials.
Heroes and Heroism
Gerald W. Johnson

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I would jump down Etna for any public good -- but I hate a mawkish popularity.
Popularity
John Keats

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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Achievement
Charles Kuralt

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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step -- it is an old business procedure.
Opinions
Fran Lebowitz

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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
Popularity
Abraham Lincoln

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If they have a popular thought they have to go into a darkened room and lie down until it passes.
Editing and Editors
Kelvin Mackenzie

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun