#popular

I feel lucky, though, because even when 'Alias' was popular, I was still sent scripts against type. I've never felt like the world only sees me one way. But yes, it's been really fun to be bad. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#bad #because #been #even #feel

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#because #civil #civil servants #colonial #criticism

Obama hasn't been divisive just because his policies are so unpopular, though that's a large part of it. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#been #divisive #hasn #his #just

Avoid popularity if you would have peace. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#peace #popularity #would #you

I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place. ↗

— Chris Lowe

#first #i #i think #lose #made

I don't want my president to be a TV star. You don't have to be on television every minute of every day - you're the president, not a rerun of 'Law & Order'. TV stars are too worried bout being popular and too concerned about being renewed. ↗

— Bill Maher

#amp #being #bout #concerned #day

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#events #exclusive #formidable #impediment #knowledge

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#few #popular #today #unfashionable

Nothing I do is done by popular demand. ↗

— Steve Martin

#done #i #i do #nothing #popular

I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#culture #gave #i #left #popular