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But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes.

So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training.

My kids are now the most popular kids in their school.

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.

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

We have to say what we believe... whether it's popular or not.

Look, I'm not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. I wear suits that are cheap. But I say what I think and I believe what I say, and I'm willing to say things that are not popular but ordinary people know are right.

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States.

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level.

But having said all of that, that still doesn't account for a lot of the increase in popularity which stems, I think, from Lincoln's personal characteristics.

The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.

I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.

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

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.

I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth.