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All language is a popularity contest.
Art has never been a popularity contest.
I'm not here to win a popularity contest.
Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.
The presidency is more than a popularity contest.
I didn't go into politics because I wanted to win a popularity contest.
It's not a popularity contest to me. It should always be about the music.
Sometimes music can really seem like a popularity contest with beautiful people.
I'm not out there to win a popularity contest. I'm out there to win basketball games.
Making economic policy isn't a popularity contest, especially when financial markets are in a panic.
I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.
Why don't the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.
It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.
Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.
Leadership is not a contest of likeability. Leadership often boils down to making the tougher choices. You are not in a popularity contest.
I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience.
You don't have to like me as a person - I understand that I can get on people's nerves with the antics I do in the ring. This is not a popularity contest. I'm trying to do whatever I can to win the fight.
Musicians are all about celebrity first and foremost, and I just can't do it. The second any sort of popularity contest comes into the picture, I have to walk in the other direction. These people are sociopaths.
The Academy Awards were basically created by the industry to promote pictures. They weren't really to acknowledge the performances. Then it became sort of this a great popularity contest and now, it's an incredible show and it's seen all over the world.
I'll put it like this: When I was in high school, I would never win a popularity contest back then... it was always somebody else that got picked first for whatever reason. But all those people that went before me usually dropped the ball... then I'd get my shot.
Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I'd rather just not be involved. I'm not a big high-fiver. That really gets to people around me when we have a No. 1 or something big happen. I'm not a big, 'Let's go have a party about it!'
170 is not a popularity contest. 170 is a working man's weight class where you work hard, you get your rewards whereas at lightweight, it wasn't the same. You could work as hard as you want, win as many fights as you want, and there's no promise what you're going to get out of it.