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196 Unpopular quotes by 173 unique authors
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
— Matthew Arnold
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If you're surrounded by idiots, you're the unpopular one and the odd one out because idiots don't like smart asses.
— Ricky Gervais
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I feel sorry for people in power. I feel sorry for the Queen, in a way, that she hasn't had a normal life. It'd difficult…
— Ricky Gervais
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As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is…
— Thomas Frank
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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…
— Rudy Giuliani
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The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the…
— Emma Goldman
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People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.
— Billy Corgan
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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…
— Albert Ellis
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Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
— Albert Einstein
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You should never have to say hello or goodbye. Even at work sometimes, and I know this is very unpopular, is that if I'm going…
— Mindy Kaling
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There are popular celebrities, there are unpopular celebrities and then there are the walking dead. You know the walking dead when you see them: they…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
— Fran Lebowitz
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Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier.
— Marty Meehan
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The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell people what they…
— Nathan Myhrvold
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Commitment to the rule of law provides a basic assurance that people can know what to expect whether what they do is popular or unpopular…
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And…
— Barack Obama
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At times unpopular measures are needed in order to change behaviour.
— Lucy Powell
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The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.
— Paul Robeson
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Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? Unpopular cuts? How about just a little miracle, an overnight…
— Jonathan Sacks
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I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause.
— Edward Said
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I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
— Edith Sitwell
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The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
— Margaret Chase Smith
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When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.
— Bruce Springsteen
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To go from being an unpopular, chubby little kid who was chasing girls and couldn't seem to catch them, to being chased after and making…
— Paul Stanley
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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