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George W. Bush is very popular in Sub-Saharan Africa. Why? Because of PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief.
It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people.
The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.
We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like a badge of honor to be an outcast.
The Tweets that I have written that are most popular are the ones that are the kind of universal girly concerns and observations.
The British brand is so popular particularly in the US that they put the union jack flag on top of beer bottles because it sells.
If you're going to create a competitive game and it's going to be popular, you have to have an esports ecosystem around the game.
Never may a man prone to believe scandal be a despot or a popular leader! Under his guidance, democracy itself will be despotism.
History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.
'Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read 'First Among Equals.'
It's a lot more interesting to dig into the popular music from where I'm from than adhere to some kind of standardized global pop.
I find pop art really offensive because it's taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can't see it.
Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.
Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.
A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes.
Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross.
I think if you're at the point where you're popular enough to sell your wedding photos to OK! Magazine then you don't need the money.
If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.
For years, when I was popular, I would face the blank page to write, and I couldn't think of anything that I thought was good enough.
The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
It makes me mad to hear these popular orchestras make a jammed-up comedy of a song like 'Wreck on the Highway.' It ain't a funny song.
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.
Long-term, perpetual travel is the dream of many. But surprisingly, for such a popular desire, few people realize how accessible it is.
I took inspiration from 'Fountainhead,' the way in which Ayn Rand conveyed her political philosophy through an immensely popular novel.
There is a long and successful tradition of popular movements in the U.S. and elsewhere having an impact on crises in forgotten places.
I think if I was 5-foot-3, I would have been really popular and dated a lot more in high school. I didn't develop like the pretty girl.
As soon as you think, 'Pirates are really popular right now with kids so I'm going to write a pirate movie'... that's when you're dead.
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
Throughout history, Hanukkah was a relatively minor festival, but it's become very popular in America due to its proximity to Christmas.
We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals.
As an ideology - and certainly as a political identity - conservatism is less popular than the very principles and values it stands for.
The decisions I've made have not always been the most popular, but when I look back, I want to know I've played for good football teams.
Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it's popular, it's not culture.
'Infernal Affairs' is really amazing and was a really popular movie. I would be fine with playing any character in the movie.
It's made music more accessible with YouTube and the ability to trade audio files. But it hasn't made it more popular.
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.
I was doing some YouTube covers, and I had a decently popular blog on Tumblr.
But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.
The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.
I'm trying to help Apple Music be an overall movement in popular culture, everything from unsigned bands to video.
We're delighted to be working with Apple to offer fans a new and innovative way to experience our wildly popular shows.
Frankly, TV stars are not that popular. In fact, I don't have even have a million followers on any of social media accounts.
I really just like acting. I'm not always aware of what is hip and what is popular and what is zeitgeist.
If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.