Popular Culture Quotes

• The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism.

  Carl Bernstein

  Real, People, Ordinary

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

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• If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.

  Michael Schudson

  Silly, People, Culture

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.242, Routledge

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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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• Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

  Morley Safer

  Reality, Popular Song, Culture

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• I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Mario Puzo

  Movie, Hollywood Films, Film History

  The Godfather ch. 1 (1969)

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• May the Force be with you.

  George Lucas

  Movie, Film History, Psychics

  Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

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• Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

  Clark Gable

  Movie, Badass, Wind

  "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.

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• You can't handle the truth!

  Jack Nicholson

  Movie, Memorable, Great Year

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• I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Marlon Brando

  Movie, Film History, Hollywood Films

  "Fictional character: Don Vito Corleone". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. March 14, 1972.

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• Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

  John Podhoretz

  Reflection, Culture, Causes

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• Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

  Carl Bernstein

  Ordinary, Today, Garbage

  "An A-Z of cultural terms". The Guardian, June 3, 1992.

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• Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Sex, Eye

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

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• Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is.

  Bell Hooks

  Race, Talking, Class

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• It makes no sense at all to try to deny the reality of Jewish power and prominence in popular culture. Any list of the most influential production executives at each of the major movie studios will produce a heavy majority of recognizably Jewish names.

  Michael Medved

  Reality, Names, Trying

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• I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?

  Alice Hoffman

  Dream, Halloween, Writing

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• The cacophony of contemporary popular culture makes it hard to discern the call of truth and wisdom. There is no area in which practicing asceticism is more important.

  Rod Dreher

  Important, Cacophony, Culture

  Rod Dreher (2010). “Crunchy Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots”, p.2, Crown

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• The ideals of technological culture remain underdeveloped and therefore outside of popular culture and the practical ideals of democracy. This is also why society as a whole has no control over technological developments. And this is one of the gravest threats to democracy in the near future. It is, then, imperative to develop a democratic technological culture.

  Paul Virilio

  Technological Development, Democracy, Culture

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I hate these questions - I don't like talking about this stuff [popular culture], because it's so... to me, it's so ordinary.

  Edward Snowden

  Hate, Talking, Ordinary

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• We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.

  Ai Weiwei

  Culture

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I'm pretty much out of popular culture altogether.

  Noam Chomsky

  Culture

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I just don't care about popular culture. It looks to me pointless and superficial. If I had free time I'd rather read a 19th century novel.

  Noam Chomsky

  Culture, Looks, Care

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I'm just so amazed by people who are willing to share things that, in the past, no one would have ever talked about. Folks in popular culture being willing to take on issues, I think that is such a key part of having a culture shift and an institutional shift.

  Cecile Richards

  Past, Thinking, Keys

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think, what I want to say is that yes, my ideas have travelled into popular culture they also emerged from popular culture in a way, or from the general public as you put it. But not as a program.

  Judith Butler

  Thinking, Ideas, Culture

  Source: ilga.org

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• For example, we have developed an artistic and a literary culture. Nevertheless, the ideals of technological culture remain underdeveloped and therefore outside of popular culture and the practical ideals of democracy.

  Paul Virilio

  Democracy, Example, Culture

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Nothing in medical literature today communicates the idea that women's bodies are well-designed for birth. Ignorance of the capacities of women's bodies can flourish and quickly spread into the popular culture when the medical profession is unable to distinguish between ancient wisdom and superstitious belief.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Ignorance, Ideas, Culture

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