Misunderstanding is generally simpler than true understanding, and hence has more potential for popularity.
A few caring kind quality friends are worth more than any amount of shallow popularity.
Why don't the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.
In a popular medium, you're going to get loads of stuff that is trite, but there'll also be some really special moments.
I think it's as popular as it ever has been and it continues to grow as it does all around the world.
I've always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed to act if you want to be popular.
Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere.
But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.
Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.
I promise that as a president elected in a direct popular vote, I will try to be the voice of all citizens.
Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started.
Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.
Any time you choose not to hide your tattoo, you're limiting your social sphere, because they're not popular in big business.
McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular.
I've been a conservative in West Virginia before that was popular. I've seen a change in West Virginia. Not a change in John Raese, but a change in West Virginia and a change in America.
Being an actress is similar to trying to fit in with the popular kids in high school. You're expected to drive the right car, wear the right clothes and say the right things.
Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
If you're ever being typecasted - as most of us are - that's a great way to be typecasted. So, 'The Rifleman' is still popular with a lot of people, and I'm proud to be associated.
I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway.
Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable.
