A zoo is a cultural institution. Like a public library, like a museum, it is at the service of popular education and science. And by that token, not much of a money-making venture for the Greater Good and the Greater Profit are not compatible aims.
A zoo is a cultural institution. Like a public library, like a museum, it is at the service of popular education and science. And by that token, not much of a money-making venture for the Greater Good and the Greater Profit are not compatible aims.
Patrick actually used to be popular before Sam bought him some good music.
I don't want any of this. I just want to be what I was before you showed up here and all hell broke loose. I want to be popular and dating the hottest guy in school. Now I'm none of those things, and I'm a human who has scary visions and don't know what to do about any of it.
Fame is a form, perhaps the worst form, of incomprehension.
Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of the might within the land, bearers of a spark from the sacred fire.
She planted that terror of debt so deeply in her children that even now, in a changed economic pattern where indebtedness is a part of living, I become restless when a bill is two days overdue. Olive never accepted the time-payment plan when it became popular. A thing bought on time was a thing you did not own and for which you were in debt. She saved for things she wanted, and this meant that the neighbours had new gadgets as much as two years before we did.
I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.
To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.
Fame is a fickle friend, Harry. Celebrity is as celebrity does. Remember that.
Oh, come on, Harry, it's not Quidditch that's popular, it's you! You've never been more interesting, and frankly, you've never been more fanciable.
I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death.
Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.
Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't..
Lying in a featherbed will not bring you fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.
The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.
Fame or infamy, either one is preferable to being forgotten when you have passed from this realm.
Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don't ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.
Certainly I will not tell you it's a small project. I am very much involved so I can tell you frankly that I'll carry the fame or the blame.
Husband to his wife 'I know youve been a model wife, but its been a long time since your model was popular.'
The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.
He was looking though the glass at the photos that were up on the wall in their hall of fame. He said, 'Dad, I want to come here and do what you did to follow you.' I said, 'No, Bryan. That was my life. You're going to have to live your own life.
I couldn't ask for anything better for coach. It's an honor to be playing for him. Why wouldn't you want to play for a Hall of Fame coach who's got numerous guys in the NBA
The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame.
They were playing Lil' Wayne a popular New Orleans hip-hop artist on the radio when we drove into town, ... They are treating us better than our own people.
Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasped an immortality.
These crises may be surprising to some people, because in the popular mind, Latin America is not associated as much with food emergencies of the type we see in Africa.
Dr. Phil has become an American icon in record time and his series' ratings just keep getting stronger and stronger, ... Dr. Phil's popularity is still growing, and we're thrilled to know we'll be bringing stations this top-quality series well into the next decade.
You guys are going to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, ... What an honor.
Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.
Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.
It seems only to be increasing in popularity, and the major reason is time. The rise and reign of Martha Stewart using all natural elements to decorate, that's not realistic for most people.
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
I do see a great deal of popular and Congressional dissatisfaction with the judicial activism and, at a minimum, the Senate's determination to confirm new justices who will respect Congress' constitutional role,
What's funny is a lot of conversation these days is about Hollywood and the effects of popular culture, but I never hear anyone mention that there are images from Iraq on television every day, ... I mean, it is violent. And yet it is almost like it is not on television. People are just real selective about what they choose to point fingers at.
I have a nihilistic attitude so it's like, the new gay... it's popular.
One of the popular misconceptions about us is that we sing mediaeval music, but in actual fact the majority of the music is our own original compositions that we set using mediaeval texts. I love setting texts to music... anonymous poets from 700 years ago. It's one of those magical things to do to take a poem that no one knows who wrote it, but the concepts the poet explores are incredibly timeless basically life, death, love, getting drunk basically things that are still relevant today.
The web-only version is popular, but our 'Road to the Super Bowl' section is also getting a great deal of interest. People want to see why so many of our ads were rejected in the first place. The bottom line is not to please the critics or win an Academy Award. The important thing is to reach the customer.
A lot of guys do stuff off the field. As a baseball player, and that's what it's about, I would love to see him in the Hall of Fame before he dies. Pete Rose deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. Everybody wanted to play like Pete Rose.
I'm not in this for fame. I'm in it to give people hope.
He's not a Hall of Fame quarterback right now, but we're not going to ask Brooks to throw for 400 yards or run our offense like Peyton Manning. With the package that the coaches have installed thus far, he's more than capable of handling it.
Getting buried alive will always be my claim to fame.
With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself--for survival and living day to day with what comes up.
An amicable agreement was reached several weeks ago when the suggestion was made that the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum become the custodian of the ball.
Since the various types of Chinese porcelain were made for specific markets, including Portuguese, Dutch and English, this was reflected in the subjects. A good example would be the pair of pug dogs, popular in England in the 18th century.
O, how I faint when I of you do write,
Knowing a better spirit doth use your name,
And in the praise thereof spends all his might
To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.
I think we all thought Eddie Guerrero was going to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame one day. We just didn't think it would be so soon.
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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