Quotes About Popularity Contests

#1. What is a mind, but a pattern? My mind or yours. Man or machine. Simply an arrangement of atoms. Each of us, a unique expression of the mind of the universe.

Daniel H. Wilson

#2. Your Egnlish is so atrocious I don't feel the need to even respond' seems but a long-winded way of saying, 'Home-schooled dumbass.

George Takei

#3. He loved her way: acting casual, working like a Trojan, singing like an angel. Not
"angelically." The voice of an angel. Winged, lethal, close to the sun.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#4. Judge tenderly of me.

Emily Dickinson

#5. Legislators are interested in their pet projects, getting re-elected, and popularity contests.

Bud Grant

#6. All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#7. I don't care at all about the mainstream; I don't care about popularity contests; I don't care about who's got the biggest-selling album; and I don't care about glossy production.

Phil Anselmo

#8. You could try to surrender to the experience and let change happen.""Change or die?" she said."Yes. Change or die.""You might have noticed, I don't do surrender very well,

Thea Harrison

#9. Humor is based on surprise, and surprise is a milder way of saying shock. It's surprise that makes the joke.

George Carlin

#10. All dreams have to come to an end.

Timothee De Fombelle

#11. If you make your decisions based on comfort, before long you will be uncomfortable.

Adrian Rogers

#12. Like most of the world's population I'm into coffee, but in a properly big and important way. My perfect weekend would start with a pint of coffee.

Jimmy Carr

#13. Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Julie Andrews Edwards

#14. I guess what I enjoy most is directing, because it incorporates all aspects of filmmaking. Directing is in the same line as acting - both are popularity contests, and in both you're trying to tell a story through the film as a medium.

James Franco

#15. When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones.

Dee Dee Ramone

#16. Love wasn't a piece of music you could play over and over again with different interpretations. It actually needed to be improvised as you went along.

Tobsha Learner

#17. Artificial intelligence is no match
for natural stupidity - Anonymous

Iain Clements

#18. Innocent tourists? You make me sound like the big bad wolf."
"And you're not?" I questioned.
"Only if you're Red Riding Hood," he said flirtatiously.
"Wow, that's original.

Alyssa Rose Ivy

#19. Compromise is part and parcel of making a movie. It's a question of the kinds of compromises that you have to make.

Todd Solondz

#20. Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.

Lois Wyse

#21. I don't know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching - 'cause we are not going to win any popularity contests.

Clarence Thomas

#22. I think politics in general are just like a popularity contest but McCain is just ... old.

D. L. Hughley