Popular Culture Quotes - Page 4

• The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Song, Artist, Would Be

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• With what's happened in the world the last three years, it's easier to see why it's become popular again to diminish and revile Arabs and Muslims in American popular culture.

  Tony Shalhoub

  Song, Years, Three

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

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• A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.

  Ismail Merchant

  Halloween, Few Words, Culture

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• The nerd flavor of masculinity has overwhelmed the macho kind in real-life power dynamics, and therefore in popular culture.

  Jaron Lanier

  Real, Nerd, Culture

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• And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.

  Brad Bird

  Culture, Film, Right Now

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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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• Popular culture is morally bankrupt, flagrantly licentious and utterly materialistic-and Madonna is the worst of all.

  Tipper Gore

  Culture, Materialistic, Worst

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• I quite often feel that my greatest task as a father is to raise children who love what is good, true, and beautiful, and who are therefore aliens in this popular culture.

  Rod Dreher

  Beautiful, Children, Father

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• The distortions and insults about organized religion will continue unabated as long as our popular culture continues its overall campaign against judgment and values. A war against standards leads logically and inevitably to hostility to religion because it is religious faith that provides the ultimate basis for all standards.

  Michael Medved

  Christian, Religious, War

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• In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are romantic, patriotic, conventionally moral, and they are held in deep affection by those who are suspicious of the great arts. Popular artists can be serious, like Frederick Remington, or trivial, like Charles Dana Gibson; they can be men of genius like Chaplin or men of talent like Harold Lloyd; they can be as uni versal as Dickens or as parochial as E.P. Roe; one thing common to all of them is the power to communicate directly with everyone.

  Gilbert Seldes

  Art, Patriotic, Men

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• Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.

  Mason Cooley

  Passion, Secret Love, Culture

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• Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.

  Mason Cooley

  Seductive, Culture

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• Elvis Presley's death deprives our country of a part of itself. He was unique, irreplaceable. More than twenty years ago, he burst upon the scene with an impact that was unprecedented and will probably never be equaled. His music and his personality, fusing the styles of white country and black rhythm and blues, permanently changed the face of American popular culture. His following was immense. And he was a symbol to people the world over of the vitality, rebelliousness and good humor of this country.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Unique, Years

  Statement by the President on the Death of Elvis Presley, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. August 17, 1977.

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• An entertainment is something which distracts us or diverts us from the routine of daily life. It makes us for the time being forget our cares and worries; it interrupts our conscious thoughts and habits, rests our nerves and minds, though it may incidentally exhaust our bodies. Art, on the other hand, though it may divert us from the normal routine of our existence, causes us in some way or other to become conscious of that existence.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Hands, Worry

  Herbert Read (2015). “The Politics of the Unpolitical”, p.145, Routledge

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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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• I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are.

  Susan Faludi

  Thinking, Hands, People

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

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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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• McWorld is a product of popular culture driven by expansionist commerce. Its template is American, its form style. Its goods are as much images as matériel, an aesthetic as well as a product line. It is about culture as commodity, apparel as ideology. Its symbols are Harley-Davidson motorcycles and Cadillac motorcars hoisted from the roadways, where they once represented a mode of transportation, to the marquees of global market cafés like Harley-Davidson's and the Hard Rock where they become icons of lifestyle.

  Benjamin Barber

  Icons, Rocks, Style

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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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• Science is too important not to be a part of popular culture.

  Brian Cox

  Important, Culture

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• I was a child of American popular culture. All I did as a kid was what I could get at the local supermarket or the dime store. Nothing else was seen. Plus what was on television, or the movie theatre. That was it.

  Robert Crumb

  Children, Kids, Theatre

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

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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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• 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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