Popular quotes

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The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?

- Stephen Sondheim

I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway.

- Kathleen Turner

Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players. male and female.

- Mick Taylor

When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

- Andrew Sullivan

Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.

- Tipper Gore

Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

- Woodrow Wilson

And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used in any other popular songs at the time.

- Bobby Sherman

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

- Keith Richards

The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.

- George G. Simpson

I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing.

- Eric Bogosian

We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.

- Keenen Ivory Wayans

We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.

- Neil Patrick Harris

You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment.

- Stephen Breyer

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

- William Ralph Inge

I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine.

- Gordon Getty

In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same.

- Joan Armatrading

Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.

- Gerry Adams

I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth.

- Bob Edwards

We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like a badge of honor to be an outcast.

- Mark Hoppus

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

- Stephen Sondheim

I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.

- Adrian Edmondson

Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die. It won't be me, but I can sit comfortably and watch it.

- Albert Brooks

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?

- William Lloyd Garrison

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.

- Shirley Jones

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.

- Dave Barry

The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear.

- Rose E. Bird

It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people.

- Antonio Banderas

Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees.

- Ernest Mandel

If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.

- Michael Schudson

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

- Doris Kearns Goodwin