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“He that has many friends, has no friends.”

Popularity No Friends Many Friends

Book:Aesop's fables

Source: Aesop's fables

“One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.”

Knows Men Giving Humans Self Reason Able Speak Tools Unions Blow Strikes Popularity

Book:Human Nature and the Social Order

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.”

“The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that as God waited long for an interpreter, so he can wait for his followers.”

Feels Long Ideas Waiting Deals Common Numbers Conscience Common Sense Reform Followers Popularity Careless Disregard Reformers Interpreter Copernicus

Author:Wendell Phillips

“A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.”

Two Rooms Silence Minutes Months Drawing Magazines Dust Recognition Popularity Shelves Essays Novelty Columns Forthcoming

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“In the world of movie personalities the distance between popularity and politics is short.”

World Personality Distance Movie Popularity

Author:Shirley Temple

“In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned.”

Education Intellectual University Circles Guarantees Satisfying Popularity Opinionated

Author:A. N. Wilson

“If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.”

People Ifs War Answers Raises Seeking Cruelty Popularity Howl Barbarity

Book:Supplemental report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War: in two volumes ; supplemental to Senate report no. 142, 38th Congress, 2d session

Source: Supplemental report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War: in two volumes ; supplemental to Senate report no. 142, 38th Congress, 2d session

“You're always going to sound like yourself, but you can make really strong attempts to keep some similarities, but move away from what you did before for popularity's sake.”

Moving Strong Sound Like You Sake Popularity Similarity Like Yourself

Author:Chuck D

“Popularity isn't just something that happens. You have to give something in exchange for it, and that's the dangerous part of the process.”

Giving Happens Process Dangerous Popularity

Author:Robert Bringhurst

“Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I'd rather just not be involved. I'm not a big high-fiver. That really gets to people around me when we have a No. 1 or something big happen. I'm not a big, 'Let's go have a party about it!”

People Feels Bigs Happens Party Involved Popularity Contests Popularity Contest

Author:Gary Allan

“Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.”

Popularity Contests Emmys Popularity Contest

Author:William Devane

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

Way Shows Views Business Mom Proud Pops Point Of View Popularity Show Business

Book:Merman: an autobiography

Source: Merman: an autobiography

“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.”

Knows Real Play Problem Simple Perception Increase Popularity Real Problems Notoriety

Author:Kenny G

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

Character Pieces Car Popularity

Author:Paul Michael Glaser

“Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity.”

Important Young Lying Causes Sin Answers Moral Bills Embrace Clinton Inspired Popularity Idealism Lapses Omission Monica

Author:Arlie Russell Hochschild