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Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
Albert Einstein

Strange, Books, Written

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Edmund Burke

Public, General, Welfare

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
Mark Twain

Become, Forbidden

Everything popular is wrong.
Oscar Wilde

Everything, Wrong

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Oscar Wilde

War, Long, Wicked

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
John Lennon

Rock, Jesus, Argue

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
John Lennon

Rock, Jesus, Roll

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.
Noam Chomsky

Place, Decisions, Culture

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw

Marriage, Temptation, Maximum

The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.
Steve Jobs

Learn, Write, Read

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.
Will Rogers

Looking, Week, Anybody

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.
Ernest Hemingway

Success, Work, Become

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
Keith Richards

Music, Rock, Guitar

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
Erich Fromm

Sex, Mean, Between

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.
Bill Gates

Dad, Tax, Position

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Jack Kerouac

Great, Opinion, Trends

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.
Douglas Adams

Mind, Thought, Fact

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life, Another, Seen

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

Hope, Nothing, Expecting

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
James Madison

Government, Means, Both

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

Actually, Generation, Television

The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
Margaret Chase Smith

Character, True, Easy

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.
Shirley Jones

School, Children, Made

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
Agatha Christie

Life, Through, Child

This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.
Conan O'Brien

Best, Him, Halloween

Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
Fran Lebowitz

Business, Old, Opinion

A President cannot always be popular.
Harry S. Truman

Cannot, President

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.
Carl Bernstein

Truth, Today, Reality

What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.
Howard Cosell

Nothing I do is done by popular demand.
Steve Martin

Nothing, Done, Demand

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