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Very Popular Quotes

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
- Douglas Adams

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.
- Jodi Picoult

Well, developers do want to touch a lot of customers. We have to make our platform very popular in order for them to do that. If we make their jobs easier, then they'll be more likely to stay on the Windows platform.
- Jim Allchin

At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point.
- John Astin

When the movie was done, Number Five was crated up. Eric took him over to Germany; displayed him over there because Germans really liked this movie. It was very popular with them.
- John Badham

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
- Dave Barry

It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write about, I don't choose my subjects, they kind of choose me.
- Billy Bragg

Sacramental attachments to a dying a resurrected savior was a common idea in the Roman Empire. The religion of Mithraism, very popular in the army and open only to males, bathed the initiate in the blood of a bull.
- Norman F Cantor

I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.
- Jackie Collins

If the city of London was a body, Whitechapel would be the groin; a great unwashed area that only showed itself under the cover of darkness, and only for the most salacious of entertainments. No one of "proper" birth ever admitted to going there, but they all did at one time or anotheror at least they wanted to. Slumming was very popular these days.
- Kady Cross

I think most people played both variants and regular games. It was a period when variants were very popular and there were a lot more variants being played at that time. Every week practically, it seemed someone would publish a new variant in a zine.
- Fred Davis

I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.
- Billy Eckstine

Given that there was that era of girl group music and it's still very popular, but I think if you looked at the chart from that time you would see many more men on it. Because the industry, they were catering to young girls. I mean, that's what they thought their audience was.
- Lesley Gore

I know this is not a very popular idea. You don't hear it too often any more ... but it's the truth. I have taken drugs before and ... I had a real good time. Sorry. Didn't murder anybody, didn't rape anybody, didn't rob anybody, didn't beat anybody, didn't lose hmm one fucking job, laughed my ass off, and went about my day. Sorry. Now, where's my commercial?
- Bill Hicks

No matter how you feel you have to act
like you are very popular with yourself;
very relaxed and purposeful
very unconfused
and not
like you are walking through the sunshine
singing
in chains.
- Tony Hoagland

I know the name of Turkey's leading avant-guard publication. I know that John Quincy Adams married for money. I know that Bud Abbott was a double-crosser, that absentee ballots are very popular in Ireland, and that dwarves have prominent buttocks.
- A J Jacobs

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
- Waylon Jennings

Something about this boat screamed, I am a very popular model in the world's oil-bearing regions. I cost more than your soul!
- Maureen Johnson

My men's-underwear print ads are very popular!
- Calvin Klein

You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the top of your art, or if you want to be a very popular tenor.
- Alfredo Kraus

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.
- Benoit Mandelbrot

Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.
- Ian Mckellen

Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.
- Willie Nelson

We opened a shop in Rotherham which does free demonstrations every day, six days a week and it's been very popular.
- Jamie Oliver

It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.
- Bill Paxton

Everywhere we walked we got plenty of attention due to the camera and sound men. The locals love to get on camera. I'd seen footage of Gandhi surrounded like this and always thought it was because he was very popular, but now I wonder if it was just because he had a camera crew with him.
- Karl Pilkington

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

Have you ever head this theory about drinking yourself sober?' Eddie asked. 'It's a very popular theory. Amongst drunks, anyway.
- Robert Rankin

The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It's also a form that's very popular - the straight-ahead biopic.
- Gus Van Sant

I did have fun, for example, in The Black Hole which was very popular among youngsters.
- Maximilian Schell

I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway.
- Kathleen Turner

Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very very important part of what holds our project together.
- Jimmy Wales

There's no doubt about it, earmarks are not very popular. There are good earmarks and bad earmarks. The good earmarks are the ones I get for my district.
- Anthony Weiner

There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the third act and it was in a house that you wished you'd owned with people that you wish you knew. It was life seen through a very privileged way.
- Timothy West

My clothes are very popular in Japan.
- Vivienne Westwood

So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear.
- Paul Weyrich

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