The nerd flavor of masculinity has overwhelmed the macho kind in real-life power dynamics, and therefore in popular culture. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Popular culture is most powerful when it offers us a vision of how our society should look - or at least reproduces… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K. — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
Having a hit is nice, having some success, but when you move popular culture, that's a high. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
I'm in favor of anything that will give strong women more visibility in popular culture. — James Gunn Copy Share Image
“But this is how popular culture works: You allow yourself to be convinced you’re sharing a reality that doesn’t exist.” — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“A conscious human is driven by their conscience, not popular opinion.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“If she was possessed by anything other than faulty brain chemistry and/or DNA, I like to imagine her as being possessed by… — Paul Tremblay Copy Share Image
I quite often feel that my greatest task as a father is to raise children who love what is good, true, and… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
[Buzzing at the Sill] deals with the margins of America, a lot of parts unseen. Well, parts that are seen and familiar… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
There are certain people in our popular culture that just capture people's imaginations. And in death, they become even larger. Now, I… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous.… — Michael Schudson Copy Share Image
Most of my ukulele heroes were traditional players from Hawaii, like Eddie Kamae and Ohta-san. There may not be uke stars in… — Jake Shimabukuro Copy Share Image
In much of today's popular culture, the virtues of forgiveness and kindness are belittled, while ridicule, anger, and harsh criticism are encouraged.… — David E. Sorensen Copy Share Image
“God curse Carl Jung’s rotten corpse to hell for ever convincing popular culture that each sex had equal, but unexpressed, measures of… — Rollo Tomassi Copy Share Image
“Shooting Nazis in a game doesn’t reinforce any desire to hunt Nazis in the real world; it doesn’t even increase the probability… — Xavier Lastra Copy Share Image
The term 'popular culture' always used to mean what the people do - pop songs, folk songs, music in general used to… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Popular culture does a lot to shape attitudes. You can't compare different communities to each other, but in my lifetime the gay… — Jay Ruderman Copy Share Image
We tell girls to be themselves, but then they have role models - sometimes too many role models - in popular culture… — Sophie Gregoire Trudeau Copy Share Image
“Renaissance Humanism, which under Petrarch’s formation and tutelage vindicated the importance of poetry and rhetoric as effectors of an intimate bond between… — Charles Trinkaus Copy Share Image
Pretty much up until The West Wing, our leaders had always been portrayed in popular culture as either Machiavellian or dolts. But… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
“Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The Madden NFL franchise holds a special place in popular culture and the cover is a coveted position for players all over… — Drew Brees Copy Share Image
“The cultural situation in America today (and indeed in all Western societies) is determined by the cultural earthquake of the nineteen-sixties, the… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“When one looks back across a chasm of seventy years, through a prism of pulp fiction and bad gangster movies, there is… — Bryan Burrough Copy Share Image
“Border crossing' is a recurrent theme in all aspects of my work -- editing, writing, and painting. I'm interested in the various… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
If we're having a glitzy over-the-top moment, fashion is very glitzy and over-the-top, you know, over-the-top. If we're having a moment where… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
“The city had seemed like a great place to discover who you are. It just seemed that there was a lot to… — Sari Botton Copy Share Image
Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“I had no songs in my repertoire for commercial radio anyway. Songs about debauched bootleggers, mothers that drowned their own children, Cadillacs… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It refers to the despiser of… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image