#popularity

It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness. ↗

— Edith Wharton

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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

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Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

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But having said all of that, that still doesn't account for a lot of the increase in popularity which stems, I think, from Lincoln's personal characteristics. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

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In high school, it was all about popularity, being with the boyfriend and all the girls thinking he's cute. ↗

— Ashley Tisdale

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The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity. ↗

— Paul M. Glaser

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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

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The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. ↗

— David Hume

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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be. ↗

— Tab Hunter

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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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