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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• 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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• 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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• 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'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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• 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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• You can't handle the truth!

  Jack Nicholson

  Movie, Memorable, Great Year

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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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• 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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• Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Culture

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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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• I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.

  Marc Newson

  Culture, Youth, Youth Culture

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• The nineties as a pop cultural sphere was a really fertile time for feminism that was grounded and located in popular culture. I'm talking about before the Spice Girls - Sassy Magazine, riot grrrl, the Beastie Boys, Nirvana. You had this alternative culture that was very much speaking up on behalf of women and in favor of women.

  Andi Zeisler

  Girl, Sassy, Boys

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The Madden NFL franchise holds a special place in popular culture and the cover is a coveted position for players all over the league. I'm honored to be the first cover athlete chosen by Madden NFL fans and it's a great way to cap off an amazing year for the Saints and the city of New Orleans.

  Drew Brees

  Athlete, Player, New Orleans

  "Nfl Draft Is Today, Drew Brees Steals Its Thunder With 'madden Nfl 11' Cover" by Brian Warmoth, www.mtv.com. April 22, 2010.

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• Pretty much up until The West Wing, our leaders had always been portrayed in popular culture as either Machiavellian or dolts. But I thought, "What if we show a group of people who are highly competent, they're going to lose as much as they win, but we're going to understand that they wake up every morning wanting to do good?" That was really the spirit behind The West Wing.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Morning, Winning, People

  "The Definitive History Of The West Wing: Part 2. Inauguration". www.empireonline.com.

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• I think that popular culture takes a long time to catch up to what's actually happening in the world. Women have had to take care of themselves for quite a while. Actually, not had to take of themselves, but have wanted to take care of themselves, so I think it's a big transition that our country and our society has been going through a long time.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Country, Thinking, Long

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• Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about declining standards and dumbing-down, you have to do more intellectual work to make sense of today's television or games - much less the internet - than you did a few decades ago.

  Steven Johnson

  Past, Average, Years

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• I am trying to encourage kids to do something that isn’t yet on their mind because it is not in popular culture. Popular culture tells you 'music, music, sports, sports.' It neglects the importance of a STEM education.

  will.i.am

  Sports, Kids, Mind

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• I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so, so little truth in the popular culture, and I am starved and grateful for any I can find.

  Anne Lamott

  Grateful, Culture, Littles

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• I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Culture

  "Steve Guttenberg Takes on Rear Ends, Leonard Maltin, And Directing". Interview with Brandon Judell, www.indiewire.com. January 9, 2003.

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• At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.

  David Puttnam

  Art, Struggle, People

  "A Lord’s Call To Arms: David Puttnam Addresses Edinburgh" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. June 22, 2009.

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• Yeah, I was a child of American popular culture.

  Robert Crumb

  Children, Culture, Yeah

  Interview with Steve Bell, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2005.

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