It is quite reasonable to subscribe both to the old saw that no good girl was ever ruined by a book and… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
On the whole, asteroids tend to leave Earth alone. And day to day, there really isn't cause for most people to give… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
It is fashionable to scoff at Americans, but they routinely produce most of the important and ground-breaking entertainment in the world. 'Popular… — Ian O'Doherty Copy Share Image
I think I have a pretty good take on popular culture that maybe makes up for the fact that I'm not a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The power in any society is with those who get to impose the fantasy. It is no longer, as it was for… — Philip Roth 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
Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Like Christmas, Easter has lost much of its religious meaning in popular culture. Ask your average kid what the holiday is about… — Rachel Campos-Duffy Copy Share Image
As one might expect in a society with mass communications and mass markets, the pseudo-ethic says that whatever is popular, is right.… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few… — Brendan Fraser Copy Share Image
Korean feminism has been swept away by popular culture. It became a sort of old-fashioned trend or a joke. — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
In spite of conflicting signals - and in spite of a popular culture that sometimes puts down their innocence - most of… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“American cold war culture represented an age of anxiety. The anxiety was so severe that it sought relief in an insistent, assertive… — W. Scott Poole Copy Share Image
I remember when Langston Hughes used to write a column in black newspapers around this character Jesse B. Semple. He always used… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
News isn't simply debating a statement from the Commons - it is now often about television and popular culture within a broader… — Richard Bacon 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
“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
“There is a huge trapdoor waiting to open under anyone who is critical of so-called 'popular culture' or (to redefine this subject)… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular -… — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
Women in the U.S. are influenced by the same trends - popular culture, runway trends, etc. - and our hypothesis is that… — Mary Dillon Copy Share Image
“It's not easy to look the way I do: in popular culture, one only sees a face like mine on the Phaontom… — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
“Will non-English-speaking students start speaking English because their teachers were fired? Will children come to school ready to learn because their teachers… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
