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Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short… — Ian Mckellen
All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those towards whom it is directed will… — Adolf Hitler
I wasn’t, you know, Mr Popular. I was somewhere in the middle ground. I was quite alternative, the things I liked to do. Skateboarding, at… — Iwan Rheon
Everyone drank to popular education and to the irrigation of Uzbekistan. — Ilya Ilf
Contrary to popular opinion, the most important characteristic of a godly mother is not her relationship with her children. It is her love for her… — John F. MacArthur
Contrary to popular opinion, Christians are not nice polite people who never get angry with one another. Those are not the virtues of God's people.… — Barbara Brown Taylor
I don't even know what that means. People who get credit have to get it from somewhere. Does a credit bubble mean that people save… — Eugene Fama
Despite popular conviction, a writer needn't wear black, be unshaven, sickly and parade around New York's East Village spewing aphorisms and scaring children. — Noah Lukeman
I'd love to be popular in Barcelona. That sounds like a fun job — Bobby Heenan
I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period. — Luther Vandross
I guess the nicest thing about being, I won't say famous but being popular is a more proper word for me to use would be… — Mickey Gilley
The Independent Record Store is the reason why i STILL do music...It seems like they're the only ones that Really care about the real music… — DJ Jazzy Jeff
We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by… — Angela Davis
History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular. — Benjamin Netanyahu
I begin with the basic conviction that Jews and Arabs can live together. I have repeated that at every opportunity, not for journalists and not… — Ariel Sharon
Taking in and blowing out smoke? And now you see girls smoking cigars. It got to be such a fad. Girls on the covers of… — James Coburn
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. — William Ralph Inge
Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular. — E. V. Lucas
Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of ice water to… — Walter Isaacson
My ideal is to achieve the ability to produce numberless prints from each negative, prints all significantly alive, yet indistinguishably alike, and to be able… — Alfred Stieglitz
At the bottom of at least popular Marxism there has always been a kind of disgust with humanity as it is and a perfect faith… — Lionel Trilling
Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the day,… — Thomas Jefferson
The true principle of a republic is that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect, in proportion as the… — Alexander Hamilton
That instability is inherent in the nature of popular governments, I think very disputable … A representative democracy, where the right of election is well… — Alexander Hamilton
I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction. — Kurt Vonnegut

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