Pop Culture Quotes - Page 6

• The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.

  Bill Griffith

  Light, Culture, Sides

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• My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

  Natalie Cole

  Idols, Typical, Culture

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• I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.

  John Shirley

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.

  Jean Shepherd

  Usa, Culture, Moments

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• Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Culture, Pops, Very Good

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• The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes Western culture. The essence of Western civilization is the Magna Carta, not the Magna Mac. The fact that non-Westerners may bite into the latter has no implications for their accepting the former.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Essence, Civilization, Culture

  Samuel P. Huntington (1997). “The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order”, p.58, Penguin Books India

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• Pop culture used to be like LSD – different, eye-opening and reasonably dangerous. It’s now like crack – isolating, wasteful and with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

  Peter Saville

  Eye, Quality, Different

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• Present-day American society-whether through pop culture, religion, or institutions-conflates sexuality and morality constantly. Idolizing virginity as a stand-in for women’s morality means that nothing else matters-not what we accomplish, not what we think, not what we care about and work for. Just if/how/whom we have sex with. That’s all.

  Jessica Valenti

  Sex, Mean, Thinking

  Jessica Valenti (2009). “The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women”, p.24, Seal Press

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• And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture.

  Kurt Loder

  Country, Thinking, Drug Use

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• I see The Gap ads as being a great example of how branding has changed. Those Gap campaigns are pop culture. They've been incredibly powerful. They have had the kind of effect on culture that a hit band has. Just look at The Gap's Khaki swing ads, which were music videos. They had this tremendous impact on the industry - suddenly everything started looking like Gap ads and it became difficult to know who was co-opting whom and who was creating culture.

  Naomi Klein

  Powerful, Creating, Impact

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• Karma has been a pop culture term for ages. But really, what the heck is it?

  Vera Nazarian

  Karma, Age, Culture

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• Everything is happening faster on the Internet, so advertisers have to be able to respond quickly. If there is a pop-culture topic, a celebrity, event, some amazing viral video, a news story - how do advertisers get close to that so they can take advantage of traffic jumps?

  Jason Hirschhorn

  News Stories, Events, Culture

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• Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.

  Max Cannon

  Events, Culture, Yeah

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• I'm absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I'm a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It's a total reflection of the zeitgeist.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Jesus, Reflection, Fans

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• Tim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt rock band actually existed, or suspecting that they did. The Alternative Hero is a weirdly compelling portrait of fanatic fandom which reads like High Fidelity at high volume.

  Jay McInerney

  Hero, Rocks, Wish

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• Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

  Jeffrey Wright

  Dirty, Fans, Culture

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• It is time that we allow the Word of God, not the glamorized lies of Hollywood to become the cornerstone of our convictions, thoughts, and attitude. It is time we trade the emptiness of pop culture entertainment for the real-life adventure of a Christ-built existence. Only then will truth reign and rule in our lives. Only then will our lives make an eternal impact for His glory.

  Leslie Ludy

  Attitude, Lying, Real

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• I always wanted to create a site that was sports and pop culture. 30 for 30 had a big impact because I loved how that was about finding, empowering and working with these incredible directors, and I thought the same thing could work for writers.

  Bill Simmons

  Sports, Impact, Empowering

  "ESPN's Bill Simmons on His Mini-Empire, Why Hollywood 'Sucks' and Why He Won't Write about Sandusky (Q&A)". Interview with Lacey Rose, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 22, 2011.

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• Pop culture is like our subconscious.

  Hanna Rosin

  Culture, Pops, Subconscious

  "Hanna Rosin: Why ‘The End of Men’ isn’t a ‘triumphantly feminist manifesto’". Interview with Suzy Khimm, www.washingtonpost.com. September 22, 2012.

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• We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style.

  Gillian Flynn

  Style, Different, Culture

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• Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture.

  Marilyn Manson

  Culture, Pops, Manson

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• My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer; less fun and less money. It's ridiculous. In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Parent, Generations, Culture

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Before I got married, I never really watched TV. Now, my husband and I watch 'The Bachelor' together. I love 'The Soup' - that's where I get a lot of my pop culture - and 'Chelsea Lately.

  Dylan Lauren

  Husband, Together, Tvs

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• I feel like if I had my personality but was an OB/GYN, you would be psyched. You'd be like, 'My chatty, pop-culture-interested but plainspoken, wants-to-talk-about-clothes but serious-minded doctor.' I feel like I would clean up with patients. That's kind of a cocky thing to say.

  Mindy Kaling

  Cocky, Doctors, Clothes

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• It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.

  R. L. Stine

  Jobs, Writing, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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