We as mayors have the opportunity to push the envelope and get people thinking, even when it is not politically popular. Cities hold the key.
There's no right. There's no wrong. There's only popular opinion.
I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me. . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.
Whatever is popular deserves attention.
Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.
Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service.
All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction supposed to be most effective for State purposes.
Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.
Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.
In the popular mind, if Hoyle is remembered it is as the prime mover of the discredited Steady State theory of the universe. "Everybody knows" that the rival Big Bang theory won the battle of the cosmologies, but few (not even astronomers) appreciate that the mathematical formalism of the now-favoured version of Big Bang, called inflation, is identical to Hoyle's version of the Steady State model.
Korean feminism has been swept away by popular culture. It became a sort of old-fashioned trend or a joke.
Gymnastics is not at all as popular as, for example, soccer. Gymnastics as a sport isn't promoted very well.
We just need a strong female perspective, especially in the world now. . . when the degrading of women has become such a popular thing.
The success of our popular government rests wholly upon the correct interpretation of the deliberate, intelligent, dependable popular will of America.
If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
Today, kids are much more aware of what fashion means, but when I was growing up, it was popular, but not as popular as today. Like any kid, I was fascinated by drawing. But when some of the kids let go, I kept drawing and drawing.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is beyond bad. It carves out its own category of godawfulness. And, please, you don't have to remind me that the original was a colossal hit ($700 million worldwide) and the sequel will probably do just as well. I know it's popular. So is junk food, and they both poison your insides and rot your brain.