#pop

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs. ↗

— Cleveland Abbe

#better #boyhood #city #great #great need

We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines. ↗

— James Van Allen

#fan #had #i #magazines #mechanics

My favorite type of music to sing is a crossover between country and pop. ↗

— Lauren Alaina

#country #crossover #favorite #music #pop

Well, developers do want to touch a lot of customers. We have to make our platform very popular in order for them to do that. If we make their jobs easier, then they'll be more likely to stay on the Windows platform. ↗

— Jim Allchin

#developers #easier #jobs #likely #lot

Television is much more difficult because at every moment the network can force you to change things based on their belief about what would make it popular. You're in a constant debate with a gun at your head, and the gun is cancellation. So it's hard to win the arguments. ↗

— Judd Apatow

#based #because #belief #cancellation #change

Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm so popular around the world. ↗

— Giorgio Armani

#am #armani #around #buy #even

The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas. ↗

— Kevin Ayers

#business #came #compared #could #different

These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people. ↗

— Kevin Ayers

#find #going #joining #jumping #kids

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers. ↗

— Les Baxter

#becomes #challenge #hit #imagination #ingenuity

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#african #african americans #comprise #failure #giving