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Barbie's one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race. — Connie Willis

I don't actually have any accounts, because social networking has always felt like a popularity contest to me. A public record of my own inadequacies. — Stephanie Perkins

The best of us would rather be popular than right. — Mark Twain

She had no fear of the spotlight, only of the places it did not reach. — David Halberstam

Starting this day, she was no longer going to be quiet, a wallflower no more. — Magenta Periwinkle

Really Hagrid, if you are holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time — J.K. Rowling

Popularity is like a girl in class that you can't ignore. She give you eyes when no one looks then turns to her friends and laughs some more. — Brian Joyce

On YouTube, if anything, coming out as gay or bi or trans explodes someone's popularity. — Tyler Oakley

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him. — Wilson Mizner

It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous. — Bill Bryson

There are three elements to perceived popularity. A student has to be visible, recognizable and influential. — Alexandra Robbins

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them. — Aristophanes

If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention. — Nathan Myhrvold

You can't argue with popularity. Well, you could, but you'd be wrong! — Robbie Williams

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. — Bikram Choudhury

He counts votes before he decides what to have for breakfast. — John Grisham

He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own. — Anna Brownell Jameson

The spotlight never fixes our insecurities. It only magnifies what we thought popularity would cover up. — Lysa TerKeurst

Popularity is not an indication of quality. — Vanna Bonta

A dish around which I see too many people doesn't tempt me. — Julien Green

I'm just Phil from Rossendale. And now people are screaming for me 'cause I make YouTube videos - it's just crazy! — Phil Lester

Maybe "Bible Belt" refers not so much to the popularity of the Good Book in these parts, but to the biblical-plague level of insects. — Paul Jury

We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity. — Brigham Young

My name had become a brand. (I have mixed emotions about that part of our (Christian media) industry, for sure.) — Jeremy Camp

Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston. — Tom Selleck

There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity. — Bo Bennett

Popularity isn't the end-all, be-all. What matters far more is that you stick to your principles, that you stand up and you live a life of integrity. — Ted Cruz

Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag. — John Steinbeck

The things that are most popular are usually rubbish, stand up for what's important, not popular. — Alan Moore

Feeling harder to be oneself might be a curse of popularity. — Toba Beta

As the word 'tolerance' grows in popularity, tolerance for pure, unadulterated Christian doctrine appears to be shrinking. — Monica Johnson

Popularity, my dear, is as overrated as a large member. — Sarah Winman

That's the definition of popularity. Something that literally resonates with many, many people. — Tod Machover

The point is, a leader does what he thinks is right, not what he thinks the popular thing is. — Bill Maher

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. — David Hume

Popularity makes no sense If your fame is a shame. — Michael Bassey Johnson

One of the eternal verities of human life is that if you make the same choices as other people, they will think you are intelligent. — George Hammond

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings, only one thing endures and that is character. — Horace Greeley

Posting dramatic charts or funny pictures is good and giving people smart reasons to believe what they already think is great. — Derek Thompson

I've come to realize that worldly light brings more popularity in someone's life then spiritual light. — Hyrum A Yeakley

There is no easy way to do a deadlift - not involving actually picking up the bar - which explains their lack of popularity in gyms around the world. — Mark Rippetoe

Somewhere along the way of my illustrious high school career I traded my humanity for a prison of popularity. — Jean Haus

To attain power, one must first obtain riches, for almost everything of the world revolves about it. — Ndiritu Wahome

The battle for popularity is won, but the war for respect as a whole person is lost. — Mary Pipher

Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution. — Vance Havner

It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever. — John Bytheway

True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after. — William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield

Being popular or not, having company or being alone, are not issues of concern for the developed soul. — Donna Goddard

The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work. — Jamie Wyeth

To be unpopular, you must look the part. Remember four words: plastic flowered swim cap. — Jennifer Ziegler

Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige, — Birdman

Art has never been a popularity contest. — James Levine

Popular kids are just a powerful union of needy, insecure losers. — Jay Bell

Beating Newt Gingrich in a popularity contest is like beating Stephen Hawking in 'Dancing with the Stars.' — Bill Maher

had grown tonight, since Gordy and Crystal both brought friends. Joan was ecstatic at the popularity their little — Virginia Smith

Nobody comes here anymore, its too crowded — Yogi Berra

Popularity is neither fame nor greatness. — William Hazlitt

Popularity isn't just something that happens. You have to give something in exchange for it, and that's the dangerous part of the process. — Robert Bringhurst

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music. — Donald Fagen

Now, it's a fact well known to those who know it well that prophets of doom only attain popularity when they get the drinks in all around. — Robert Rankin

Popularity is for dolls. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Violence stops thought. Hence its popularity as a pain-killer. — Mason Cooley

In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon. — Marilyn Monroe

I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity. — Ravi Shankar

Richard Nixon coveted, to the point of obsession, a controversy-free, stage-managed coronation. — David Pietrusza

Even the piquant can forfeit popularity if tied to something intellectual. — Thomas Mann

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. Ralph Waldo Emerson — H.W. Brands

To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it. — George Henry Lewes

Absolute truth is not dependent upon public opinion or popularity. Now what is this truth? It is His gospel. It is the gospel of Jesus Christ. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me. — David Harsanyi

Avoid popularity if you would have peace — Abraham Lincoln

Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people. — Nelson Mandela

Sense isn't democratic. A senseless opinion that's advocated by 'the majority' is still senseless. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable. — C. JoyBell C.

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest. — Al Gore

Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Misery loves company, which explains my sudden popularity. - T-SHIRT — Darynda Jones

The THE TABLOIDS are always going to be a war for POPULARITY in the CELEB world. — Meg Cabot

Popularity's a weird thing. You can't really define it, and it's not cool to talk about, but you know it when you see it. Like a lazy eye, or porn. — Lauren Oliver

There is what is called the highway to posts and honor, and there is a cross and by way, which is much the shortest. — Jean De La Bruyere

The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection. — Akash Lal Karotia

Evil is more famous than goodness. — Toba Beta

It's all a popularity contest, which unfortunately often has more to do with good looks rather than actual talent. — Andrew James Pritchard

Popularity gives you power only over people who care about being popular. Ostracism gives you power only over those who fear being ostracized. — Robin Wasserman

Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie! — Wendell Phillips

Most postmodernists blame the decline of the dracono-bardic tradition on the sudden and soaring popularity of the Beatles. — E.K. Johnston

The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful. — Malcolm McLaren

The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity. — Paul Michael Glaser

But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit. — Gerard Arpey

Legislators are interested in their pet projects, getting re-elected, and popularity contests. — Bud Grant

I don't make decisions for money or popularity. I do things because they're right for me, and they're interesting and challenging. — Clare Balding

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest. — William Devane

False has many wings. Do not judge anything by its popularity. — Amit Ray

Its like a sort of internet Ren Fair. Its like Dungeons & Dragons but for cool people who have got friends. — Craig Ferguson

Life is not a popularity contest. Take the hill, but first answer the question: What is my hill?. — Matthew McConaughey

I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity. — Julius Erving

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. — Max Beerbohm

I am helpless because I achieved popularity more than what I actually am. — Shankar Lamichhane

We must be devoted to sound principles in word and deed: principle above party, principle above pocketbook, principle above popularity. — Ezra Taft Benson