Popular Culture Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• 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 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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• 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 don't go to movies, I don't own a television, I don't buy magazines and I try not to receive mail, so I'm not really aware of popular culture.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Trying, Culture, Magazines

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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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• 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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• Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.

  Camille Paglia

  Roots, Rocks, Feminist

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• I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting.

  Camille Paglia

  Fighting, Thinking, Media

  "Warrior for the word". Interview with Kerry Lauerman, www.salon.com. April 07, 2005.

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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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• Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt Disney, for example, made us forget that Mickey is a mouse, and Donald a duck. George Orwell laid a cover of human societal ills over a population of livestock.

  Frans de Waal

  Animal, Ducks, Example

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• As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone else's story - and much more toward enacting one's own story. Moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Moving, Playing Games, Role Playing

  "Douglas Rushkoff on Khaleesi Lady Gaga and why Sopranos' end works but Lost's doesn't". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. March 22, 2013.

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• Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.

  John Corigliano

  People, Culture, Minorities

  "The Gospel According To John Corigliano". Interview with Frank J. Oteri, www.newmusicbox.org. February 01, 2005.

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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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• Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another.

  Dennis Prager

  Culture, Academic, Fame

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• The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.

  Aasif Mandvi

  People, Culture, Like You

  "Aasif Mandvi's {ldquo}Today's Special' opens festival" by G. Allen Johnson, www.sfgate.com. March 07, 2010.

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