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In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice. — George Bernard Shaw
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. — Oscar Wilde
I have never made it a consideration whether the subject was popular or unpopular, but whether it was right or wrong; for that which is… — Thomas Paine
The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode and then another… — Walter Lippmann
In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to… — Karl Marx
The Failure of Will theory is equally popular with people who are not depressed. Get out and take your mind off yourself, they say. You're… — Chase Twichell
What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and easy to fool.… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
I dont think that unless a greater effort is made by the Government to win popular support that the war can be won out there.… — John F. Kennedy
When you're a great finisher, you'll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher. — Mike Tyson
I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon… — Albert Einstein
The Christian church does not need more popular preaching, but more unpopular preaching. — Walter Russell Bowie
The Doors embodied—incarnated—a major upheaval in popular culture. Their music was of the times and it shaped the times. — Jac Holzman
I enjoy creating all types of music and I take inspiration from everything around me. Its not about trends or what’s fashionably popular, its about… — Unknown Author
There is no essential difference between classical and popular music. Music is music. I want to communicate with the listener who finds Indian classical music… — Unknown Author
I tried to photograph the mysterious, true and magical soul of popular Spain in all its passion, love, humor, tenderness, rage, pain, in all its… — Unknown Author
What I would do in order to be popular was, I'd put myself on line and joke around and be funny, and I was always… — Leonardo DiCaprio
Britney's a very beautiful human being. After I worked with her, I realized that there was a reason why she was the most popular pop… — Zoe Saldana
I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didn't have a nose job and money and if you… — Lea Michele
All the kids in the cast tell me they hated high school, but I had the best time. I guess I was one of the… — Matthew Morrison
I get recognised, but Im not the sort of person who frequents popular clubs. I try to keep out of that. — Emilie de Ravin
I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have any boyfriends in high school because… — Malin Akerman
It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending. — Bill Paxton
I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his… — Ben Affleck
I was very much in my own world, never the popular kid. But I had a great family, a great brother and mother. — Jared Leto
There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God. — Norman Mailer

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