#popularity

Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around. ↗

— Terri Windling

#around #been #form #label #latin

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste. ↗

— John Green

#beauty #popularity #beauty

True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity. ↗

— Bo Bennett

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I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity. ↗

— Kenny G

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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. ↗

— Dave Barry

#catch #count #did #increasing #metric

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest. ↗

— William Devane

#emmys #popularity #popularity contest #ultimately

Art has never been a popularity contest. ↗

— James Levine

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I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#because #believe #could #country #day

So remember those who win the game Lose the love they sought to gain In debitures of quality and dubious integrity Their small-town eyes will gape at you In dull surprise when payment due Exceeds accounts received at seventeen ↗

— Janis Ian

#life #loneliness #maturity #popularity #youth

See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#reputation #fame