Pop Culture Quotes - Page 2

• There are many more important things in life than fashion. But fashion, to me, is part of pop culture. And I'm an art collector. I'm obsessed with art and pop culture. And I say that there is fame, fashion, art, music and entertainment, including celebrity, that really moves the needle in society.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Fashion, Art, Moving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Never underestimate the power of being popular in pop culture. You have to be able to do something. You can have a good seat at the restaurant, but you still have to pay for the meal. Fame is important, but to be rich is more important.

  Gene Simmons

  Important, Pay, Able

  "Kiss and Tell: Gene Simmons talks business". Interview with Stacy Perman, www.nbcnews.com. September 11, 2008.

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• Most people just aren't clear-eyed about the rural South. We think that the urban centers are the problem, and the rural areas across the country are idyllic, suffused with good old American values, social values, religious values, moral values. It's what we tell ourselves to keep this political power structure in place, and it's what we see in pop culture, too.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Country, Religious, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I never understood the low art/high art distinction. I think there's real currency in pop culture. We read trashy magazines as much as the next person. So I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. That low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm supposed to think.

  Kele Okereke

  Art, Real, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Everybody knows that I'm not a snob when it comes to pop culture, obviously. I love reality shows.

  Diablo Cody

  Reality, Culture, Pops

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• Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived. It was designed for a decade that would be just like the Nineties, except more so, in an America that enjoyed seeing itself as smarter and braver and freer than ever before.

  Rob Sheffield

  America, Twenties, Would Be

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• I'm a staunch believer in the effect of pop culture - including advertising and the internet - on the young. Pop culture in its narrowest sense - mass-produced film, TV, and music - either truly reflects what's up in youth culture, or it reflects what youth-filled focus groups have told marketing companies that they want to consume.

  Vanessa Grigoriadis

  Focus, Marketing, Culture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Basically, you can't make a pop culture reference now without someone saying it's Tarantino-esque or post-Tarantino and I'm like where's that all come from? It's ridiculous. But it's not his fault.

  John Michael McDonagh

  Culture, Ridiculous

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Andy Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture. I do a great deal of tropes. This past decade has seen a new term, "meme," which is exactly what I'm studying.

  Damian Loeb

  Past, Culture, Study

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's impossible to overstate how important social media has been to me and the development of my career. The fact that I can go and play venues that hold 25,000 people and sell them out is crazy.I don't have music on the radio. I'm not a pop culture icon. I'm just this kid making dance music. And yet I still can sell out massive arenas. It's truly incredible, and I think a lot of that is because of social media.

  Kaskade

  Crazy, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.nydailynews.com

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• 21 years ago when I started cooking, to be a cook meant that you were going to stay in the basement. Being a chef, you would never be on a book tour. You could never dream that 20 years later on you would be on a book tour. It wasn't a part of your dreams because it was just totally unrealistic. When did cooks - restaurant cooks, not cooks that have 15,000 television shows - when did cooks become part of pop culture the way they are?

  Rene Redzepi

  Dream, Book, Cooking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We will continue to address things, but in as much as I want to talk about politics as they are related to social media, I don't necessarily want to be a political show. I want it to cover everything, everything in our culture through social media, politics, pop culture, entertainment, science, everything.

  Chris Hardwick

  Political, Culture, Social Media

  Source: deadline.com

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• I do think everything that happens in American pop culture sort of prescribes for England and does end up happening there six months later, maybe a year.

  Emma Forrest

  Thinking, Culture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.

  Jonah Hill

  Temptation, Culture, Kind

  "Jonah Hill: 'People think I'm a horny, foul-mouthed teenager. But I'm 26 and very ambitious'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2010.

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• American people, what about the American people? I think the president delights in the fact that they have been roofied by technology and pop culture. They're not conscious to any expansion of power, which is why they're happy to exist in this dependant decline.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Technology, Thinking, People

  "Critics pan Obama's threat to bypass Congress". "The Five" with Kimberly Guilfoyle, Bob Beckel, Eric Bolling, Dana Perino, and Greg Gutfeld, www.foxnews.com. January 16, 2014.

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• I think if education was celebrated in pop culture, wed live in a better place.

  Cote de Pablo

  Thinking, Culture, Pops

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• I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism - where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs - is it possible to have a financial industry hero? And by the way, this is not a pop-culture trend we're talking about. There aren't many financial heroes in literature, theater or cinema.

  Martin Scorsese

  Hero, Talking, Trends

  "Scorsese, DiCaprio, and Hill Talk WOLF OF WALL STREET; Says It's Done with 'a Great Sense of Sadistic Humor'" by Matt Goldberg, collider.com. October 11, 2013.

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• Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand. You might make an obscure reference to Monty Python or Iron Eagle that only some people will get, but if they do it conveys a world of meaning.

  Ernest Cline

  Python, Eagles, Iron

  "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.

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• The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.

  Kevin Smith

  Long, Culture, World

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• Literary science fiction is a very, very narrow band of the publishing business. I love science fiction in more of a pop-culture sense. And by the way, the line between science fiction and reality has blurred a lot in my life doing deep ocean expeditions and working on actual space projects and so on. So I tend to be more fascinated by the reality of the science-fiction world in which we live.

  James Cameron

  Ocean, Reality, Space

  "James Cameron: The ‘Avatar’ sequel will dive into the oceans of Pandora". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 20,2010.

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• Well, we look for sources of inspiration in pop culture in general. It's very important for us that, when it comes to storytelling, we don't look into other video games. We'd rather look into other mediums - movies, television series and books - for sources of inspiration.

  Sam Lake

  Book, Inspiration, Games

  "Remedy's Sam Lake". Interview with Nick Cowen, www.eurogamer.net. February 18, 2010.

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• As a comic, I used to know more about pop culture.

  Brian Posehn

  Culture, Comic, Used

  "Brian Posehn on why he hates Katy Perry's 'Firework'". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. July 12, 2013.

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• Because of my New Line upbringing, half my heart goes to scrappy independents, and half goes to mainstream, down-the-middle pop culture events. And even with those, to try to keep something fresh and original with them and try to do things that the majors miss.

  Michael De Luca

  Heart, Missing, Trying

  "Producer Michael De Luca Says His Heart Is With the Scrappy Independents". Interview with Scott Timberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 15, 2011.

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• When I started Dylan's Candy Bar in 2001, I wanted it to be a place that merged my love of pop culture, fashion, art and music with candy. Since then, we have been fortunate to pioneer artistic partnerships with many legends.

  Dylan Lauren

  Fashion, Art, Pioneers

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• I'm not actually pop culture or social media savvy. I really didn't know what Twitter was when I created an account.

  Misha Collins

  Media, Culture, Social

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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