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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

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Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments. ↗

— Channing Pollock

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With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

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The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

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I wasn't the most popular kid in school. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

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If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma. ↗

— Harold Ramis

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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

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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

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