With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. ‘Pop’ stands for ‘popular.’ It means we’re plugging into the masses.
I’ve been a conservative in West Virginia before that was popular. I’ve seen a change in West Virginia. Not a change in John Raese, but a change in West Virginia and a change in America.
It must kill George Bush that John McCain is the most popular and Beloved Republican in America.
I learnt a lot in government, and I’ve learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at your most capable and least popular.
Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.
As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.
I’ve never had issues with popularity. I was always a popular guy… I’ve always had friends and loved ones and everything, so it wasn’t like, ‘Oh man, I gotta fill some void that was left by high school.’ I had a great high-school experience.
When we started, our style of music wasn’t on MTV. It wasn’t cool, and it wasn’t popular. The only bands who were even kind of similar were Blink-182 and Green Day. But we don’t sound like those bands, even if people throw us in that category now.
I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I’d become very popular. But people came to me anyway.
Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
In bohemian circles, we were very aware that poetry was missing from popular culture.
My hypothesis is not so much that the court is the natural expression of popular justice, but rather that its historical function is to ensnare it, to control it and strangle it, by re-inscribing it within institutions which are typical of a state apparatus.
Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and attitudes. Over time, however, they have met with considerable success, even though there is a long way to go, and there is often regression.
I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.
Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.
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.
I can’t really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.
Cock-fighting, which has attained to the dignity of a literature of its own, is the popular Malay sport; but the grand sport is a tiger and buffalo fight, reserved for rare occasions, however, on account of its expense. Cock-fighting is a source of gigantic gambling and desperate feuds.
So I’m not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place.
Contrary to popular belief. It’s much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.
Contrary to popular opinion, things don’t go stale particularly fast in the art world.
With a movie you’re creating from the beginning this particular work, let’s not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let’s just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.
Taxes are never popular.
The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.
A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.
Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.
The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper’s Prairie had few followers.
I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school… I wasn’t a popular kid. I was an outcast.
Jazz really does try to include everything. It’s always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.
Yeah, I was a child of American popular culture.
We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.
And it’s not only films, I’m pretty unaware of anything that’s going on in popular culture right now.
I love the history of popular music. I love to know what people are listening to, even if I don’t like it.
In my previous profession, when I was a producer, scriptwriter and actor, I wanted to get an Oscar, I wanted to be popular in the U.S.A.
I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don’t know.
But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.
Ronnie O’Sullivan is the only player in history to be dominant and popular at the same time.
My agent asked if I fancied Robin Hood and I thought: ‘Yeah, why not?’ I hadn’t watched it, to be honest, but I’d seen bits and knew it was really popular Saturday family viewing with heaps of action. I thought it would be great fun. I was up for a good old play-fighting and the scripts were terrifically exciting.
Lip Service’ was initially a segment. It was so popular that Sirius wanted to make it its own show.
Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy – judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes – because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.
I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing.
Back in the ’40s and early ’50s, building simple electronic projects was a popular hobby of many people. Back then, you could buy, you know, a few parts and – with tubes and build something on your kitchen table, and it would actually work.
I don’t think I am that tough, actually. Well, tough in the sense that I don’t take any rubbish, and that doesn’t make me very popular, frankly. I mean, because some people say something to me, and I just tell them off. I mean, why should I put up with it?
I wasn’t the most popular girl in school by any means.
The commitments, schedule and sponsor appearances don’t change. It gets more busy, because you get more popular, and the more popular you are, it actually gets more busy. They’re like, ‘Yeah, let’s use her, she’s hot right now. Let’s do a shoot!’
What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?
Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.
I was afraid I would get the Oscar for ‘Irma La Douce’ because it was popular. But I didn’t want to because I didn’t really think it was that good.
You really need to decide, if you’re an actor in Hollywood, whether you want to be faithful to the Lord or you want to be popular, because chances are you’re not going to be both.
The biopic also wasn’t a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It’s also a form that’s very popular – the straight-ahead biopic.
We’ve been in a war and a recession. That’s why acccent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They’re optimistic and flirty and happy colors.
The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.
A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
I like anime, but one of my favorite animes, and one of the most popular animes out there – Dragon Ball Z. That’s the one that I watch the most. I don’t watch all the crazy stuff like Bleach, One Piece.
Over a period of time, I think the popular will in Iran will prevail.
I think most people played both variants and regular games. It was a period when variants were very popular and there were a lot more variants being played at that time. Every week practically, it seemed someone would publish a new variant in a zine.
