Pop Culture Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• When the pop culture is littered with TV shows that portray men as rapists, brutes and predators and women as the never ending victims no matter how much power they acquire, no matter how much the decks are stacked in their favor politically, they're still portrayed as weak and victims and not fairly paid and so forth. And all men want to do is get along.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Men, Culture, Predator

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.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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• 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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• I feel dance and pop music genres are extremely female and extremely gay. When it comes to art and pop culture, queers are f - king weirdos. We don't have gender rules that tell us what we can and can't be. We just make it up as we go along. We have full creative license to be whatever we want to be.

  Beth Ditto

  Art, Gay, Creative

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Aaron Spelling always had his finger on the pulse of pop culture, he knew what the public wanted to see. He was one of the most loyal men in this business and believed in me at a time in my career when no one else would.

  Alyssa Milano

  Men, Careers, Pulse

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• My best audience and where I’m happiest is in the gay community. That’s where I feel the most accepted. It’s a community that appreciates pop culture like no other. For me, that’s where I’m home and I always want to come home.

  Katerina Graham

  Home, Gay, Appreciate

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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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• 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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• Traditionally nerd-based culture is now a big sector of pop culture.

  Chris Hardwick

  Nerd, Culture, Bigs

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• I'm fairly out of the loop when it comes to pop culture.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Culture, Pops, Loops

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

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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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• There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy surface of popular culture. But these days, pop culture seems to have gotten fuzzier and fuzzier; notoriety comes and goes in the snap of a finger.

  Susan Orlean

  Track, Mind, Giants

  "William, Kate, and Justin Bieber" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. April 28, 2011.

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• Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Real, Technology, People

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• Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.

  James Wolcott

  Men, Mad, Iconography

  "Prime Time’s Graduation" by James Wolcott, www.vanityfair.com. May 2012.

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• Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.

  James Wolcott

  Night, Vampire, Dawn

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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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