#popularity

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste. ↗

— John Green

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True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity. ↗

— Bo Bennett

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I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think? ↗

— Philip Larkin

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There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

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The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

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Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

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Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. ↗

— William Penn

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My guess is that people look at me and project their own values - importance of family, ego is healthy but not the biggest thing. I don't know. I can't explain my popularity. ↗

— Jane Pauley

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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

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