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It's easy to be popular when you don't make the decisions a president makes. And it's easy to be unpopular when you're the president because you're making decisions that at the time might seem unpopular; but when historians sort it out, it changes. Dorothy Bush Koch
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My grandfather was a popular senator, known as an advocate for fiscal responsibility, including the line-item veto for the president. Dorothy Bush Koch
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It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too. Douglas Adams
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I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible. Douglas Kennedy
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As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone else's story - and much more toward enacting one's own story. Moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames. Douglas Rushkoff
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Artists like Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga have more sway over popular minds than a politician. Drake Bell
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Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States. Duff Green
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Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybody wants everything to sound like the last thing that was popular because they're chasing their tails. Dweezil Zappa
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The World Series of Poker was becoming popular, and there were a lot of really bad poker players out there. The misperception was that I was really good, but I just ground it out. It was a good way to make money for Box. Dylan Smith
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'Upstairs Downstairs' somehow bestrode the different genres that had come before it to create a new drama entity. I suppose that's one of the reasons why it became so instantly popular. Ed Stoppard
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I'll beat a bunch of good guys, and then I'll get a ton of fans come up to me and go, 'Do you think you can beat Conor McGregor?' And I'm like, 'Oh my God. You guys are disillusioned.' They think because this man's popular he's good. Eddie Alvarez
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Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool. Eddie Van Halen
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What is the most popular scene in the Bible? Adam and Eve biting the apple. It's not there. Eduardo Galeano
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Sometimes pessimism or optimism gets popular, and it's contagious. Edward C. Prescott
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The first intifada, I was then commander of Central Command, commanding the West Bank, basically. And I know to what extent the first intifada was a popular uprising. Ehud Barak
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The reason for certain shows not doing well or as per expectations is that they were not aired on not so popular channels. Ekta Kapoor
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It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm so popular in these cities where you've never imagined an East Coast comedian working. Elayne Boosler
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As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor. Elizabeth Janeway
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One of the best and most responsible things a scientist can do is to write for the popular press. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
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The work of popular education, the temperance movement, the peace movement, are to a great extent carried on by the young. Their meetings show that the young understand one of their tasks: that of bringing together the different classes through social intercourse. Ellen Key
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I'd watch shows like 'The Kids in the Hall' or 'Twin Peaks,' and I'd see weird people being celebrated and appreciated without compromising their weirdness. On 'The Facts of Life,' I'd see girls who were pudgy, beautiful, popular, tomboyish - many ways of being female - and I'd feel quietly reassured. Emily V. Gordon
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If a show is wickedly, hugely popular, like 'Mad Men,' I assume that the masses, in their infinite inferiority to me, don't know what good TV is and that everyone is just brainwashed. Emily V. Gordon
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It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much poorer areas. Enya
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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
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I realize I live in a bubble, and all the opportunities are there to me. And having done a number of popular TV series, I'm mildly famous in certain situations, and lots of doors open to me. Eric Johnson
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Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people. Ernest Renan
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