Pop Culture Quotes - Page 5

• I'm forever a part of pop culture.

  Godfrey

  Forever, Culture, Pops

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• All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.

  Patrick Stump

  Hate, Identity, Meat

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• There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.

  Sheila Heti

  Achievement, Intellectual, Culture

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In the sense that Watchmen references movies, comic books, pop culture in general. It knows it's a movie. I really do like movies that ride that fine line, the razor's edge between parody and supporting the fake movie part of the movie.

  Zack Snyder

  Book, Fake, Culture

  Source: therumpus.net

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• So much of our cultural representation of what an investigative journalist looks like, in movies and pop culture, is about this really testosterone-filled dude screaming, "Give me what you got!" I didn't see myself as someone who would be good at or comfortable with that.

  Sarah Stillman

  Giving, Would Be, Culture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I feel like I have an affiliation with the '90s. I feel like a lot of things going on in fashion and pop culture were loud and outlandish.

  Charli XCX

  Fashion, Culture, Outlandish

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The type of pop culture that is honestly very moving and powerful to me is [when artists] do their homework. They make it real.

  David Rees

  Powerful, Real, Moving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Donald Trump is seriously dark and disturbing. You can't just dismiss it as one more example of American pop culture grotesque.

  Francisco Goldman

  Dark, Culture

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I grew up on American pop culture so everything that I fantasized about to get out of this sort of humdrum world of Bradford was about America. So when we decided to move there I was on the plane.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Moving, America, Culture

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

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• In political sense, it doesn't really matter what I do on my own, but it's so important to rally some sort of collectiveness and reignite a collective vision, and I think that's something you can do effectively through art and music, and through writing and entertainment - and just through like, pop culture. It's about spreading ideas and making people think differently, essentially.

  Katie Stelmanis

  Art, Writing, Thinking

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Many young web designers view their craft the way I used to view pop culture. It's cool or it's crap. They mistake Style for Design, when the two things are not the same at all. Design communicates on every level. It tells you where you are, cues you to what you can do, and facilitates the doing. Style is tautological; it communicates stylishness. In visual terms, style is an aspect of design; in commercial terms, style can communicate brand attributes.

  Jeffrey Zeldman

  Mistake, Views, Two

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• For me, anything goes when I pick up a mike. I'm not trying to hurt people - I try not to get too personal - but I look at myself as a reporter. If you can report on anything that has to do with pop culture, then why can't I make jokes about it? Yes, it hurts. But I figure that laughter sometimes starts from pain. You might wince, but then I know that I'm doing my job. The only thing I can do wrong is not be funny.

  Chris Rock

  Hurt, Jobs, Laughter

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

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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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• If you keep up with pop culture, everybody knows the joke.

  Shawn Wayans

  Culture, Pops, Jokes

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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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• 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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• Those East Coast rich kids are a different breed, on a fast track to nowhere. Your friends in Seattle are downright Canadian in their niceness. None of you has a cell phone. The girls wear hoodies and big cotton underpants and walk around with tangled hair and smiling, adorned backpacks. Do you know how absolutely exotic it is that you haven’t been corrupted by fashion and pop culture? A month ago I mentioned Ben Stiller, and do you remember how you responded? ‘Who’s that?’ I loved you all over again.

  Maria Semple

  Girl, Fashion, Kids

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• It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There was nothing one could say that the other would find too cruel or too kind. And on those rare occasions when they did tire of each other, they needed only go a day without talking before they yearned to reconnect.

  Galt Niederhoffer

  Book, Talking, Ideas

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• Because it all derived from Superman. I mean, I love all the characters, but Superman is just this perfect human pop-culture distillation of a really basic idea. He's a good guy. He loves us. He will not stop in defending us. How beautiful is that? He's like a sci-fi Jesus. He'll never let you down. And only in fiction can that guy actually exist, because real guys will always let you down one way or another. We actually made up an idea that beautiful. That's just cool to me. We made a little paper universe where all of the above is true.

  Grant Morrison

  Beautiful, Jesus, Real

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• How it shaped my perception is this: I have become so indelibly identified as a character in pop culture that it has forced me to go deeply within myself to get a very very rock solid sense, to myself, of who I am.

  Thomas F. Wilson

  Character, Rocks, Who I Am

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like elitism.

  Haruki Murakami

  Doors, Rolling, Culture

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• It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will also see that a great many people know perfectly well how silly and camp and trivial their fandom is. They do not check in their minds when they enter a fan site. Judgement is not necessarily fled to brutish beasts, and men have not quite lost their reason. Which is all a way of questioning whether pop-culture hero worship is really so psychically damaging, so erosive of cognitive faculties, so corrupting of the soul of mankind as we are so often told.

  Stephen Fry

  Silly, Hero, Reality

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• That’s the problem with you nearly immortal types,” I said. “You couldn’t spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.

  Jim Butcher

  Culture, Problem, Type

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.324, Penguin

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• Oh, the humanity.... It was a wonder Rhage hadn't blinded himself with all that pop culture.

  J.R. Ward

  Humanity, Culture, Wonder

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.882, Penguin

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• There are a lot of reasons to be hated in pop culture, and being a straight white male is one of them. In fact, I almost hate me

  John Rzeznik

  Hate, White, Males

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