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Ignorance on any subject steers you towards popular acceptance. Greatness however thirsts for an educated opinion.

Ignorance Subject Greatness Educated opinion
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Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.

Treat People Respect Toward
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

Era Live Grow Virtue
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She may not be the most popular or prettiest but if you love her and she makes you smile… what else matters?

Most Matter Smile Love
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I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know.

Awake Honest Know Lie
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I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

About Delusions Done Every
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Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.

About Cares Famous Go
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Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.

Blues Bob Far Grew
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All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

Accommodate Comprehension Intelligent Itself
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All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

Activity Cast Distress Emotions
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If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.

Preach Happiness Holiness You
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I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids.

Accepted Being Desperately Grew
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What made the magazine so popular was, even before I started writing the philosophy, there was a point of view in the magazine.

Before Even Made Magazine
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I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.

Been Ever Here Journalism
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Anxious Error General Loudest
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I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

Popular Prefer Think Unpopular
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Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

Aggression Conquest Convinced Could
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Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Vanity Conscience Cowardice Expediency
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I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.

Actually Firing Generation Imagined
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If you want to be popular and famous, you can do it; it's dead easy if you have that ego desire. But most of my ego desires as far as being famous and successful were fulfilled a long time ago.

As Far As Being Being Famous Dead
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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.

Cry Fact Hitherto Indeed
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Afflict Disease Egotism Executives
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An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

Element Soft Great Virtues
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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

Case Cases Considered Few
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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

Food Art Consumed Dish
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Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.

Business Living Make Mom
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I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.

Appeal Attend Few Just
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If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Always Aspects Because Become
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The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don't really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it's way more intricate than what meets the surface.

Because Fell Gets Grow
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One of my most popular songs, 'Satellites,' I paid $300 for that beat on SoundClick.

Beat Most Paid Popular
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

Commonwealth Define Easy Enough
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Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.

Hippies Peaceful Popular Quiet
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I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested.

Classical music Survive Song Voice
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My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.

Job Song World Middle East
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

Popular Propaganda Pressure Helpless
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A President cannot always be popular.

Always Cannot Popular President
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Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable.

Everything Great Hip Hip Hop
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.

Really Political Feel Born
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Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

Compete Culture Games High
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“The early church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.”
Early Church Married Poverty
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.

Achieved Expect Popularity Writer
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

Cringe Critics Master Novel
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
Avoid Popularity Have Peace
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Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

Art Does Dream Examine Itself
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We are doing unpopular things, in face of powerful individuals and taking on vested interests who are accustomed to the corrupt old order. But we must do things the right way...there must be manifest departure from the old order.

Unpopular Things Individuals Vested
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It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness

Mortifying Believe Unpopular
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That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Knowledge Popular Scientific Which
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If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

Afraid Cabin Holding Long
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I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

Dreams Expected I Write Just
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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.

Assassins Climate Due I Can
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