You may not be aware of a recent survey that showed that if the First Amendment were put to a popular vote today, it would fail by a 60% to 40% vote.
James E. Rogers

I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.
Alejo Carpentier

I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.
Jackie Stewart

There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.
Shirley Knight

When the movie was done, Number Five was crated up. Eric took him over to Germany; displayed him over there because Germans really liked this movie. It was very popular with them.
John Badham

If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.
Michael Schudson

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.
Ken Follett

With what's happened in the world the last three years, it's easier to see why it's become popular again to diminish and revile Arabs and Muslims in American popular culture.
Tony Shalhoub

Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.
Oliver Herford

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross.
Stephen Stills

Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
J. M. Roberts

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.
Breyten Breytenbach

The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States.
Norm Dicks

The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.
Robert Sheckley

In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed.
Marvin Hagler

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.
Paul M. Glaser

It may not be the most popular but there is a place for it. I think about the kind of music I love, acoustic, melodic, and I guess it kind of took a bit of courage on my part to think I could be one of those songwriters.
Helen Slater

Over a period of time, I think the popular will in Iran will prevail.
Frank Carlucci

I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular.
James Randi

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.
George Ade