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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.

I've been amazed that it's so popular with people. But it's been fantastic. People are very excited when I walk into a place and they recognize me from the series.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?

The most popular labor-saving device is still money.

Investing in auto companies and ensuring a financial collapse didn't lead not from a recession to a great depression may not have been the most popular thing to do, but it was the right thing to do.

A lost of people recognize me and maybe will ask for an autograph, but it's nothing like if Elvis would've done something like that, 'cause he's so popular, or maybe The Beatles 'cause they stirred up a lot of action.

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 that if you've got a recognizable name, a lot of times you can get people to do things for you ordinarily that you wouldn't get done.

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 the most important characteristic of a great leader.

I was surprised that the TV series was popular itself, but after that it went on to become more popular over the years and thus it seemed eventually that they would turn it into a movie.

The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity.

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

Given that there was that era of girl group music and it's still very popular, but I think if you looked at the chart from that time you would see many more men on it. Because the industry, they were catering to young girls. I mean, that's what they thought their audience was.

Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States.