Popular Culture Quotes - Page 3

• Right now it feels like we're playing a role, like me and a couple of my friends, in where popular culture is going. That's a very rare thing in a person's life to be able to be a part of that. It's a responsibility I take seriously.

  A-Trak

  Couple, Responsibility, Culture

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.

  Cass Sunstein

  Ideas, Culture, Succeed

  "Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 2, 2016.

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• When I look at certain aspects of popular culture - not everything because I like a lot of things - sometimes my heart breaks a little bit, just a little bit. I begin to ponder what happened to this generation, I don't know.

  Saul Williams

  Heart, This Generation, Generations

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm not interested in popular culture. I hate Quentin Tarantino. I rarely go to movies. I hate rock 'n' roll. I work. I think. I listen to classical music. I brood. I like sports cars.

  James Ellroy

  Sports, Hate, Thinking

  "The Onion talks to crime-fiction kingpin James Ellroy". Interview by John Krewson, www.avclub.com. November 20, 1996.

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• Like commercial stuff is sort of cheap and disposable and fun and can be sort of interesting in many ways. I love being in popular culture and existing in the evolution of popular culture. But it's so different from painting, and it's so different from that sort of slow, contemplative, gradual process that painting is.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Fun, Love Is, Interesting

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I think I have a pretty good take on popular culture that maybe makes up for the fact that I'm not a sound-bite politician for the nightly news.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Culture, News

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history of Western art is not part of their own tradition.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Art, Culture, Tradition

  Source: www.artzip.org

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• We are living at an important and fruitful moment now, for it is clear to men that the images of adult manhood given by the popular culture are worn out; a man can no longer depend on them. By the time a man is thirty-five he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

  Robert Bly

  Life, School, Men

  Robert Bly (2015). “Iron John: A Book about Men”, p.7, Da Capo Press

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• Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Games, People

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• I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.

  Colin Firth

  Culture, Stills, Delighted

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

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• People constantly make pop-culture references. That's why it's called popular culture, because people are aware of it and reference it constantly.

  Seth Rogen

  People, Culture, Pops

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• I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it's successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why.

  Joss Whedon

  Successful, Thinking, Important

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• If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Taught Us, Robots, Culture

  "Dan Wilson's HOW TO SURVIVE A ROBOT UPRISING Acquired by Jack Black and Steve Pink" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. October 22, 2010.

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• All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

  Noam Chomsky

  Inspirational, Media, People

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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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• The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.

  George Sand

  Ungrateful, Feelings, Ignorant

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.140, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In much of today's popular culture, the virtues of forgiveness and kindness are belittled, while ridicule, anger, and harsh criticism are encouraged. Let us not hurt the ones we love the most by selfish criticism!

  David E. Sorensen

  Hurt, Kindness, Selfish

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• I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way it was an extension of Warhol. Instead of making criticism about popular culture, as a lot of artists do, I worked within it to do something.

  Kim Gordon

  Art, Criticism, Culture

  "Kim Gordon Sounds Off" with Lizzy Goodman, www.elle.com. April 22, 2013.

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• Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Reflection, Majority, Culture

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• Popular culture is filled with girls.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Girl, Culture, Filled

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• The media and the rest of popular culture weren't recording people's reactions to 9/11; they were forcing made-up reactions down people's throats.

  Susan Faludi

  Media, People, Culture

  "9/11 ripped the bandage off US culture" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2008.

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• It is quite reasonable to subscribe both to the old saw that no good girl was ever ruined by a book and to the perception that it is not good for children to be constantly exposed to the sexual violence in our popular culture. Protecting children seems to me logically, legally, and rather easily differentiated from censorship.

  Molly Ivins

  Girl, Children, Book

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• The Doors embodied—incarnated—a major upheaval in popular culture. Their music was of the times and it shaped the times.

  Jac Holzman

  Doors, Culture, Upheaval

  Jac Holzman, Gavan Daws (1998). “Follow the Music: The Life and High Times of Elektra Records in the Great Years of American Pop Culture”, First Media Books

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• Read, listen to and watch everything you can. Explore the corners of popular culture and the arts. And, of course, these days you have to stay maniacally plugged in to the cutting edge of whatever technology is taking your profession into the future - otherwise you're toast.

  Tom Freston

  Art, Cutting, Technology

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• Judeo-Christians have got to respect the pagan truth shown in the popular culture of sex and violence. It's meaningful about the elemental forces of life, the brutality of life and nature.

  Camille Paglia

  Christian, Meaningful, Sex

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