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Tag Name "Popular" (1435)

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Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
Alistair Cooke
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Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
Wendell Phillips
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In the old days, they killed the messenger who brought the bad news... a Cassandra is never popular in her time.
Alice Stewart
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We have Mr. Putin in Russia. And he appears to be a popular president of Russia. And I don't think it's the business of the National Endowment for Democracy or American diplomats or American foreign policy to try to change the nature of that government.
Pat Buchanan
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Let's face it, Obama is not a hugely popular political figure in the state of Texas.
Wendy Davis
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
Irwin Shaw
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I was not a popular girl, so being able to create punk who didn't have to be beautiful in the mainstream way helped me to get in touch with sexuality and become comfortable with the idea that I didn't have to look like Farrah Fawcett to feel attractive, to feel sexual power.
Alice Bag
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I think Austin is read more now than Charles Dickens, and Dickens was much more popular in his day. She endures because of her classicism.
Whit Stillman
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I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like to think that at a crucial moment, I was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective hope of the hopeless.
Whitney M. Young
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[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld otherwise than by virtue: The worst men always conspiring against them, they must fall, if the best have not power to preserve them. . . . [and] unless they be preserved in a great measure free from vices . . . .
Algernon Sidney
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Drunkenness was in good repute in England till Bloody Mary frowned upon it it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.
Will Durant
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In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.
Bryant H. McGill
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Rulers who destroy men's freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. ... They cherish the illusion that they can combine the prerogatives of absolute power with the moral authority that comes from popular assent.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but as we know, that's not always true, just because of popular taste, advertising, distribution patterns - there's lots of reasons.
Willem Dafoe
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I have no idea why she quieted down on the subject. Maybe she was told to. I can imagine that it wasn't a very popular position in the Administration, with her own husband having ordered by executive order the internment. Maybe she was just told: Look, we're in a war now. Turn off your social conscience.
William A. Rusher
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I don't think you can take a whole genre of very popular books and say, This is all trash! When we read a memoir that isn't by a celebrity, we feel like we're about to go on a journey and we don't know where the journey will lead. But when we read a memoir by a celebrity we feel like we already know the journey and we just want to travel it.
Hilary Liftin
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Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.
Alexander Smith
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We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals
Tommy Shaw
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Contrary to popular belief, I have always had a wonderful repertoire with my players.
Danny Ozark
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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.
Peter Drucker
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There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and the concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge.
Roger Bacon
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O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
William Cowper
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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.
Tony Blair
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Sometimes it's good to be not so popular.
Alex Mack
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