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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

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If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now 'grieving' for 'Calvin and Hobbes' would be wishing me dead. ↗

— Bill Watterson

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. ↗

— Horace Greeley

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I can analyse the trajectory of my popularity and find out why the peak was a peak and the valley was a valley - grapple with it that way - but I prefer not to analyse it that much. ↗

— Corey Hart

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

— Bo Bennett

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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow. ↗

— Harrison Ford

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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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Art has never been a popularity contest. ↗

— James Levine

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