Waging war is much more popular than negotiating, because there you need to compromise.
As you keep getting more popular, people are continually wanting more from you and it seems to me that all they want in the end is your death.
Well, I'm not that popular with the politicians, I have to say.
Nothing in medical literature today communicates the idea that women's bodies are well-designed for birth. Ignorance of the capacities of women's bodies can flourish and quickly spread into the popular culture when the medical profession is unable to distinguish between ancient wisdom and superstitious belief.
I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace!. . . Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow, I've always considered myself a popular artist.
I would sell 2 million records, a million went to teenagers and a million went to the adults. So, when The Beatles became so popular, I lost a million to the teenagers, but I was still selling a million to the adults.
Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well.
Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?
What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things.
I thought that I wasn't an essayist because I just didn't see myself in a lot of the essays that were popular at the time. That's why I joined the poetry program in grad school.
To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.
I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it's simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.
I think Radiohead and Outkast are the two modern popular groups who you can actually say that about. We take inspiration from everywhere.
Good teachers are not known for telling you what you want to hear, and consequently they're rarely popular because they tend to offend people on a regular basis by their mere presence on earth.
In the popular mind, if Hoyle is remembered it is as the prime mover of the discredited Steady State theory of the universe. "Everybody knows" that the rival Big Bang theory won the battle of the cosmologies, but few (not even astronomers) appreciate that the mathematical formalism of the now-favoured version of Big Bang, called inflation, is identical to Hoyle's version of the Steady State model.
Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.
It takes no courage to say or do what's popular.
And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.
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 the time. Playing in a band as opposed to playing in the rugby team. You know, that kind of thing.
Some of George W. Bush's friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial. But God told me that HeSheIt had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. 'That worked for everyone else,' God said.