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What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.

— Susan Orlean

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.

— Mia Wasikowska

Popularity is given to you, and if you think that just because you're really popular you're a better person, it could be a real crash when you find the popularity goes down.

— Amy Tan

I guess I was popular in high school.

— Cecily von Ziegesar

I don't know if I was popular in high school. My school was actually not really clique-y, which was nice. I went to a very artsy school, so everyone was kind of friends with each other. I was trying to be popular more, like, in junior high and elementary school and dealt with all that backstabbing and drama.

— Lili Simmons

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.

— George Savile

It turns out that popularity is scary. I don't feel comfortable receiving so much attention from people; perhaps that's because I'm just a kampong boy.

— Andrea Hirata

I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.

— Milla Jovovich

True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.

— Bo Bennett

I have always lived the way I wanted regardless of whether or not it was popular.

— Marie Osmond

✗Opposing Perspectives

I've never had issues with popularity. I was always a popular guy... I've always had friends and loved ones and everything, so it wasn't like, 'Oh man, I gotta fill some void that was left by high school.' I had a great high-school experience.

— Jonah Hill