I wasn’t the most popular kid in school.

Fame is just a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures, and that is character.

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in determination.

It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety

There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply

I want to produce the best popular music I can

My father was a very popular singer and stage actor during his time, in the 1950s. But he didn’t take any formal lessons in music, which was probably why he insisted I study music so I could get a proper base and build a strong career in it.

As snap-backs became more popular, I started to search and expand my hat game

I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to ‘do well in school, ’cause no one’s going to marry you!

I think if I was 5-foot-3, I would have been really popular and dated a lot more in high school. I didn’t develop like the pretty girl.

I was not the popular kid in school.

omedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That’s the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.

There are some people who have helped to advance me and other girls, but the fashion industry is always behind popular culture. They think they understand the zeitgeist. They don’t know anything about the zeitgeist.

Many of us prefer to live in places abandoned by humans. Less work for us. Detroit is very popular.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

The dilemma of modern society: the conflict between the need for capital formation at a high rate and the popular condemnation of interest and dividends as “unearned income” and “capitalist,” if not as sinful and wicked.

Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they always say yes. But they get nothing done.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another.

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry ‘I could have thought of that’ is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn’t, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

In England the more horses a nobleman has, the more popular he is. So long as the English are devoted to racing, Socialism has no chance with you.

It’s much easier for me to say that, the kind of music I didn’t listen to was pretty much that. I mean everything, from jazz to classical to popular. And Tibetan horns were a great part of it in 1966, ’67.

She may not be the most popular or prettiest but if you love her and she makes you smile… what else matters?

Even though now I’m pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I’m very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I’m more a person who likes to have privacy and peace

It’s easy to think of things that need to be done, but they all have a prerequisite, namely, a mass popular base that is committed to implementing it.

That is neoliberal democracy in a nutshell: trivial debate over minor issues by parties that basically pursue the same pro-business policies regardless of formal differences and campaign debate. Democracy is permissible as long as the control of business is off-limits to popular deliberation or change; i.e. so long as it isn’t democracy.

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign

Countries, therefore, when lawmaking falls exclusively to the lot of the poor cannot hope for much economy in public expenditure; expenses will always be considerable, either because taxes cannot touch those who vote for them or because they are assessed in a way to prevent that.

I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim is to provide for the needs of the poor will breed more miseries than it can cure, will deprave the population that it wants to help and comfort, will dry up the sources of savings, will stop the accumulation of capital, will retard the development of trade, and will benumb human industry

What is right is not always popular, and what is popular is not always right.

The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics

You always have to think in a new modern way, and you always have to push yourself in fashion because it’s a big treadmill. You can’t really get off it. You just have to move a little faster.

The popular view that scientists proceed inexorably from well-established fact to well-established fact, never being influenced by any unproved conjecture, is quite mistaken. Provided it is made clear which are proved facts and which are conjectures, no harm can result. Conjectures are of great importance since they suggest useful lines of research.

Total commitment is a crucial quality for those who want to reach the very top of their profession

Anyone who has taken up the responsibility to lead a team can be successful only if he is sufficiently independent, powerful and influential in his own right to become a person to reckon with.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Hip-hop originated in the Bronx, which implied virtually everything. I was raised right where hip-hop originated, so I’m satisfied to be here and be able to represent New York in the same manner I do

Even before my popularity, I became popular on Facebook.