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Not Popular Quotes

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
- W H Auden

Badminton is not popular in the U.S. because I think the mentality of badminton has to change.
- Howard Bach

Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.
- George Bernard Shaw

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
- William Tecumseh Sherman

Look, I'm not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. I wear suits that are cheap. But I say what I think and I believe what I say, and I'm willing to say things that are not popular but ordinary people know are right.
- Howard Dean

It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much poorer areas.
- Enya

Love is not popular. Not noble... not love, no reward. Trust love. Is not love. Trust yourself.
- Ibi Kaslik

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.
- Louis Leakey

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