For me, I’m going to try to do the same thing to you no matter if I like you, no matter if I hate you, no matter if it pops up. You’re not going to be able to say one thing, and now I really want to kick you.
Sometimes Kellen calls me ‘Coach.’ Sometimes he calls me ‘Pops.’
I come up with the ideas for my videos, and I write the lyrics and choreograph them, and I direct them and tell everyone what to do and how I want them to sing the parts and do the tongue pops and eye rolls and stuff like that.
I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.
I don’t get offered many dramatic roles. As soon as my face pops up in a movie, everyone knows I’m the funny guy.
Phillip Schofield has always been my primary crush. Sure, I danced in front of the telly when Shakin’ Stevens was on Top of the Pops, but that was because my rudimentary grasp of how telly works made this five-year-old think she could be seen by him. So that was less love, more showing off.
Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they’re mostly water. I eat about 15 pops every two days.
It’s very difficult for me to look at politics with clear eyes. I’ll read a story in the paper and the first thing that pops into my head is, what would my dad say about that? Then I try to break out of that and think, ‘What would Said say about that,’ and then it gets complicated.
I always looked at ‘All In’ with the perspective that it’s about the present and future of the industry and not really about cheap pops, even though I’m sure they’ll be plenty of those on the show.
There are many things that I’ve learned through the characters that I’ve played. But one thing that pops up in my head is ‘always be honest.’
In baseball, there’s certain things you can call someone: a fossil, graybeard, grandpa, dad, pops. But I got a chance to say it and mean it.
So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. ‘What! no soap?’ So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.
When people hear sing-songy melodies, they think the lyrics will be nice, too. I guess there’s a depressing or psychotic side to my personality that pops out in the lyrics.
My dad put me with all the greatest people. It definitely helped me now, because I know so much more about music and composition. It’s cool. I love Pops. I’m super thankful for everything he’s done to help my career.
I’m not really good at worrying. I think I get that from my pops. He can be in some really dire straights and be a real optimist, so I don’t sweat the petty stuff.
I’ve never cared about being indie or cool. I wanted to be on ‘Top of the Pops.’
I mean my pops, my family, that’s always No. 1. But second probably the girls and stuff. Females.
Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.
Until you get left for Mr. Bean, you don’t realise how frequently he pops up. There’s a shop two streets from my house that sells masks of his face. There’s nowhere where I’m going to go that he’s not there.
My mom eventually got out to Oxnard and started a produce company and was in the strawberry business. My pops was out of the picture by the time I was 7.
My father (like most fathers) always taught me that a man is someone who stands by his principles, someone who lives with integrity and puts his family before himself. That last one is important, because as a young boy, it’s your pops who provides you with security.
I shoot my big mouth off; it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself.
How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white footage of the Second World War and David Bowie on ‘Top of the Pops’ singing ‘Life on Mars.’
Some breakfast cereals only come into their own as children’s party treats: what are cornflakes and Coco Pops for, if not to clump together with melted chocolate and spoon into a cupcake holder?
When another editorial pops up denouncing millennials for some perceived generational flaw, I take it with a Miley Cyrus-sized grain of salt.
There’s that bubble of childhood that makes you innocently do anything. Then, when you get older, that pops, and you’re aware of limitations and judgment and social pressures and things like that.
Being blond just makes me feel happier, like when the sun’s hitting you. The blond pops. It’s cheerful.
When people come out of rehab, they usually go to secondary rehab for another six months and then enter back into society gradually. But I came out and did Top Of The Pops straight away!
When I went to visit this rice cake plant, I hadn’t realized how the rice cakes were made. As soon as I saw the molds of rice and how the heat pops it like popcorn, the light bulb went off. This is popped. This isn’t baked or fried.
When my phone pops up with Dierks Bentley, I’m like ‘Oh my gosh! Okay, wait. He’s supposed to be, like, my friend. I’m supposed to be cool.’
Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive.
I do think that I have a sensitivity to the depictions of maybe all minorities in literature. And I think that the experience of people who look like me is so rarely captured in big, mainstream American fiction that you tend to sort of empathize with any character of color who pops up.
I like to pick one piece that pops against everything else. I like flashy shirts, or I’ll wear a simple shirt with a fancy tie. I also like vintage pieces, more stand-out ones.
If you’re a young actor, unless you’re on a very short list at the studios, we have to be very creative about moving your career along. Otherwise, all we can do is hope to get lucky and find that perfect role that pops you into stardom.
Chris Cooper once told me to never have any regrets. After Chris said that to me, I walk into every scene thinking, ‘exhaust every possibility.’ Once you get to a certain place, it’s like you just deliver everything you’ve got. Don’t have any regrets. It pops up in my mind over and over and over again.
In America, when you bring an idea to market, you usually have several months before competition pops up, allowing you to capture significant market share. In China, you can have hundreds of competitors within the first hours of going live. Ideas are not important in China – execution is.
People have got a preconceived idea of what I look like, what I perform and what my shows are all about. I can understand that, because all they can refer to is ‘Top Of The Pops.’ But those who come to my shows know better.
The best cartoons have no words at all – just the image pops out.
That’s where I get my whole music theory from, my pops and my grandfather.
Food for me has to pop, and at Spice Market, the food really pops.
Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody’s present pops out of nowhere.
So let’s say you’re using XYZ product and you want to do something very sophisticated. You subscribe to this thing, you hit a button, and a CA expert pops up in video.
On Facebook, your past comes into your present when someone from your second grade class suddenly pops up to send you a message, and your future is being manipulated by what Facebook knows to put in front of you next.
The BBC is a very confident broadcasting organisation and it needs brands like ‘Top of the Pops’ and ‘Top Gear.’
If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?
My pops put me on to Jay-Z and Kanye, and my discoveries would be like Future and Kendrick Lamar. I turned my pops on to Kendrick, Young Thug. I feel my mom made me play the Isley Brothers and real, real old music.
We learned at a young age, with our dad, that even if you weren’t doing something, you had to look like you were, or some hard labor was coming your way. That’s the reason I started practicing music – when I was practicing, Pops left me alone.
As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.
Pop concerts create an audience for Pops concerts, not an audience for classical symphonic concerts.
Pops played football for LSU. Ever since I can remember, I’ve been working with him running routes and stuff.
Sometimes, I sit with my guitar and start playing… something or the other pops into my head… Basically, I write whatever that comes to my mind. I’ve written a lot of songs, but they are lying in my cupboard… I mean to do something about them someday.
I’ve got an extra-specific story about Dr. Dre. I saw him when I was 9 years old in Compton – him and Tupac. They were shooting the second ‘California Love’ video. My pops had seen him and ran back to the house and got me, put me on his neck, and we stood there watching Dre and Pac in a Bentley.
When I was a kid, I watched mainly films on TV and pop programmes like ‘Top of the Pops.’
The thing I’m always trying to do when I write is hit that sweet spot where the book both keeps you up late at night, and yet a week after you’ve finished, it still pops back into your head.
I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.
