#popular

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

— Julius Erving

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Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience. ↗

— Susan Estrich

#contest #experience #gore #personality #popularity

Popular applause veers with the wind. ↗

— John Bright

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Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#catharsis #expressed #grassroots #history #how

The media and the rest of popular culture weren't recording people's reactions to 9/11; they were forcing made-up reactions down people's throats. ↗

— Susan Faludi

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History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions. ↗

— Ken Burns

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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

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I know it's popular to say this because she's the woman of the moment, but Halle Berry. Not only does she have obvious audience appeal and star quality, but she's a damn good actress too. ↗

— Paul Kane

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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions. ↗

— Gore Vidal

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I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing. ↗

— Tina Fey

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