#pop

Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#cynical #forever #going #i #illusions

And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#factor #finding #general #hundreds #just

In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#anyone #been #black-and-white #convert #days

It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#different #duck #fast #furious #i

A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle. ↗

— Rachel Stevens

#childhood #childhood memories #difficult #feeling #floods

At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle. It's a hard feeling to shake off. Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me. ↗

— Rachel Stevens

#been #comfortable #difficult #easy #feeling

I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends. ↗

— Rachel Stevens

#child #felt #friends #had #i

I studied fashion at the London College of Fashion. I get involved in it as part of my own styling, so if I wasn't a pop star maybe a fashion buyer or a stylist. ↗

— Rachel Stevens

#college #fashion #get #i #involved

Ideally, I would love to mix singing and acting, but you can only be a pop star for so many years. I mean, at 30 it's a little bit sad, right? ↗

— Rachel Stevens

#bit #i #ideally #little #little bit

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#free #free society #safe #unpopular #where