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  • Buzz Aldrin I am not sure about Bill Nelson. I haven't heard him say, 'Let's junk the NASA plan to send humans to the moon.' He's not about to say that. That would not be very popular.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Aaron Stanford I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it.
    Aaron Stanford
    American actor (1976 - )
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  • Anthony Holden I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Alejo Carpentier I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.
    Alejo Carpentier
    Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist (1904 - 1980)
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  • Jonathan Swift I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Tony Bennett I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
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  • Bill Bryson If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea what popular Turkish music is like.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Branford Marsalis If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Frank Herbert If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
    Frank Herbert
    American science fiction writer (1920 - 1986)
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  • Bryant H. McGill In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Brad Holland In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Kathy Norris In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
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  • Albert Einstein Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Edmund Burke It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Bill Paxton It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Bono It's much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won't keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don't know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we've got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, 'Is this it? Are we still relevant?'
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Billy Bragg 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
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Bria Skonberg Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or another.
    Bria Skonberg
    Canadian jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1983 - )
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