#popular

See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#reputation #fame

I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#bing crosby #crosby #gimmick #him #his

Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#been #build #citizens #faith #financial

The presidency is more than a popularity contest. ↗

— Al Gore

#more #popularity #popularity contest #presidency #than

Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular. ↗

— Macklemore

#consciousness #exactly #exists #gets #i

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both. ↗

— James Madison

#both #farce #government #information #means

I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound. ↗

— Ron Carter

#electric #felt #i #popular #present

I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the really popular guys, you have the nerdy guys, and then you have the people who really don't care - and that was me. I wasn't really picked on or anything like that. ↗

— Callan McAuliffe

#care #geeky #ground #guys #hierarchy

I think it's sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare. ↗

— Kelly McGillis

#art form #caused #expose #fade #form

'Grey's' is just a machine. I wasn't really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is. ↗

— Kevin McKidd

#grey #how #i #just #machine