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Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

It must kill George Bush that John McCain is the most popular and Beloved Republican in America.

I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.

True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.

The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.

Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where's Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis no less.

I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.

And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.

The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear.

I don't use the twang bar anymore. It's become too popular.

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

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.

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

Certainly, because the computer and computer language was still not as common as it is today. That's one of the reasons I believe Tron wasn't as popular back then as it is today.

It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'.

Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic; Brutus may be called so in a stricter sense.