#popular

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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I'm sure if we had made an album that was more traditional would have been released immediately. When we actually play this music on stage and people become familiar with it, it will become more popular. ↗

— Mick Taylor

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I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all. ↗

— Allison Williams

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There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

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I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any other fashion. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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I've had people call me from bands that are very popular, and they're like, 'What do we do? We want to do what you do.' It's almost impossible to do what I do, because you would have to start in 1980. You can't just do it. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

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Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village. ↗

— John George Nicolay

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I know I'm unpopular. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

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I just did what I did and I still am. It makes you unpopular, maybe for a lifetime, but I'd rather do that than be popular and doubt what I am. ↗

— Robert Barnes

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