Popularity is the last thing I want.
It would be nice if we could all agree to this proposition: popularity is not the same as achievement.
Overall, I think Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete in any particular sport. He dominated the game for the Chicago Bulls and brought the NBA to its greatest peak of popularity.
Popularity is a bubble. It’s a mountain: you can go up really hard but walk down really fast.
Many of the network television shows have done takeoffs on ‘Family Circus,’ including ‘David Letterman,’ ‘Friends,’ ‘Roseanne,’ and others, and, in my estimation the use of them is a compliment to the popularity of the feature, which just by mentioning it’s name sets up the image of a warm, loving family-type feature.
The popularity of ‘2 Dope Queens’ just showed there was like a hunger for new stories because we have alternative comics on our show that wouldn’t normally be featured on, like, a white guy’s comedy show.
The real kiss of death – particularly with my father – is the extraordinary popularity of his work.
Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it’s a good story or just a seductive one?
I am lucky to have got the character of Twinkle to make my debut. I not only learnt so much playing the role, but it also gave me popularity.
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
There are all sorts of people who will say disobliging things about me. I don’t mind that. I would rather people said, ‘This is a man that sticks to his principles, not a man who’s worried about popularity.’
Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don’t care.
Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it’s there, sometimes it’s not. It usually just comes in waves.
Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.
Magic Realism is not new. The label’s new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it’s been around as long as literature has been around.
Twitter’s popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me.
I’m not surprised ‘The Avengers’ has such enduring popularity, because it was a groundbreaking series that changed television. It was the first show that put its leading man and leading lady on an equal footing and showed a woman fighting and kicking and throwing men around. That was a radical departure in its time.
Historically, the most favorably viewed figure in any administration is the first lady, regardless of her husband’s popularity. That is largely because first ladies avoid the political fray and are ritualistically presented as a warm, human presence in the White House.
I can’t explain my popularity. I suppose I’m just an ordinary bloke, and a lot of people see a little bit of Eddie in themselves.
The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything.
Given the growing popularity of pop culture conventions, many of them are selling out, leaving a lot of fans out in the dark and having to trawl the Internet for bits and pieces of news that relate to these events.
All of us use crutches of popularity amongst friends, society, social media for self-importance. People go to any extent to feed their ego, even if that means to show someone down, self-destruction or to kill someone.
Records were replaced by CDs, and lead type died in favor of computerized fonts. However, each had a 100-year ride of popularity, so you can’t feel too bad for them.
The popularity of eSports was inevitable.
Cricinfo has developed into a significant cricket brand in its own right, combining huge global popularity with strong commercial success. ESPN is a major sports broadcaster and international rights holder and will provide the perfect environment for Cricinfo to further realize its enormous potential.
It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.
I am happy judging shows and making films. It is a good thing to do a film and then take up a show, considering it also keeps your popularity alive.
I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It’s totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.
I first got online in the late ’80s when I was an eccentric teenager in suburban New Jersey, in a town mostly interested in sports, popularity, and clothes. I was a reader, into Jorge Luis Borges, and I found, connected to, and delighted in a group of Borges scholars from Aarhus, Denmark, that I met online.
I don’t really care if people talk, I just want them to watch my fights. I’m really not in this for press or a popularity contest, I’m just here to fight.
The popularity of the party and Yingluck is getting more and more.
There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.
True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.
I almost turned down ‘8 Mile.’ I was due to start ‘ER,’ and I learned they really wanted me to be in ‘8 Mile.’ I didn’t know Eminem; I just knew he was a rapper and saw what everyone else saw in the media. I thought they were just trying to capitalize on his popularity.
My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn’t try to court publicity.
Judging from what looks like the popularity of this classic wrestling show is that the people like what they have grown to know and love here in Memphis.
I don’t know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching – ’cause we are not going to win any popularity contests.
When K. Vishwanath made the film ‘Shankarabharanam,’ he wanted to bring back Carnatic classical music to mainstream. It’s popularity was waning in those days.
Popularity has always been the key currency in choosing a president.
Don’t we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.
The popularity of fantasy surpassing science fiction and the popularity of apocalyptic fiction, particularly for young adults, may indicate a desire to escape a more difficult and confusing reality, even in astrophysics and particle physics.
I think of ‘Twilight’ in terms of the fact that the popularity has given us the opportunity to do the things that we love, and now we can pick and choose.
There are people who don’t like popularity. It’s much better to be exclusive and remote.
I’m very happy to be a part of a very successful piece of art, as the ‘Saw’ films have been. One gets into this to participate. It’s the coming together of a good story. So, that aspect of it has been just splendid. It really has nothing to do with me or my popularity. I’m fascinated.
The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It’s so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that’s where you start to cheat yourself – and your fans, in the end – because there’s an inherent dishonesty in pandering and dishing up what everyone’s expecting.
Even though the popularity and the fanbase is much much greater, and more people have heard about me through things like the Grammys and the Ivors and touring and word of mouth, it doesn’t reflect in the sales of the record and doesn’t go into my pocket.
As the word ‘tolerance’ grows in popularity, tolerance for pure, unadulterated Christian doctrine appears to be shrinking.
I did a guest thing on ‘My Name Is Earl,’ and there is something about being involved in a TV show that’s in the midst of its popularity that frees up the creative process.
I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.
I’m not prepared to give up the truth for popularity.
I think the general public’s response to my projects is very strong. You can be an intellectual and say that popularity detracts from architectural quality. On the other hand, you can see in the public’s identification something very positive.
Nowadays, kids know how a programme like Merlin is made and how it works. But the show just seems to grow in popularity the more it goes on.
Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
Over the years, Good Deeds Day has annually gained greater popularity, spreading beyond geographical boundaries to include many more countries worldwide. International Good Deeds Day has become a global annual tradition of giving.
‘Kahaani’ gave me popularity and ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ stardom.
