Quotes of: Popularity-contest Keyword

It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern soc...

Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey--and Even Iraq--Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport

Our faith is faith in some one else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case. Our belief in truth itself, for instance, that there is a truth, and that our minds and it are made for each other,--what is it but a passionate affirmati...

The Will to Believe, Human Immortality, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

Japan likewise put her hopes of victory on a different basis from that prevalent in the United States. (...) Even when she was winning, her civilian statesmen, her High Command, and her soldiers repeated that this was no contest between armaments; it...

The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture

I want to feel calm and at ease. Like someone who lives in Half Moon Bay, California, and makes hummus from scratch. Instead, I feel like I'm a contestant on some awful supermarket game show where I've got sixty seconds to hurl my shopping cart down ...

Dry

One thing I've always wondered—why did you enter that bikini contest when you were a teenager?” Her face flushed with a mixture of anger and embarrassment. “How far back did you trace me?” “Far enough.” A pause. “You didn't answer my qu...

Branded by Fire

One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved a...

Richard Rohr

New Rule: Stop asking Miss USA contestants if they believe in evolution. It’s not their field. It’s like asking Stephen Hawking if he believes in hair scrunchies. Here’s what they know about: spray tans, fake boobs and baton twirling. Here’s ...

Bill Maher

In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.

Brad Holland

But I do know which is the least popular. The truth.

Thirteen Reasons Why

Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.

Undiscovered Gyrl

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

Musical shows are really popular because there are lots of talented kids out there that can sing and dance.

Justin Chambers

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

Queen Elizabeth II

I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.

Sam Waterston

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

Tom McCall

I'm not one of those artists who doesn't want to play their most popular songs.

Tom Scholz

But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular?

Luther Allison

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

Max Beerbohm

Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.

Macklemore

I didn't want to be a hero to kids; I didn't think I had that. I just wanted to be popular.

Maxwell Caulfield

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

Margaret Fuller