#unpopular

I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#being #else #everyone #heathen #i

I was unpopular at school just because I was an intellectual. I always answered all the questions off the top of my head but they nevertheless resented because of that. ↗

— George Woodcock

#answered #because #head #i #i always

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#his #our #our time #popular #rejected

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties! ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#causes #forsaken #home #impossible #lost

Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a trait not normally associated with nerves of steel. ↗

— Fred Barnes

#associated #balk #bin #bush #chance

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection. ↗

— Neal Boortz

#free #free speech #meant #needs #popular

The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#anything #century #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement

There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader. ↗

— Rudy Giuliani

#being #beliefs #characteristic #great #having

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#book #cause #having #high #high school

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#about #caring #i #ideas #much