One meaningful distinction between high and popular culture, is that there's way more good popular culture - because its standards of quality… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
“…Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I don't know what will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. We're more… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“In the late 1990s, the conservative gadfly Roger Stone began to observe, not disapprovingly, that popular culture had become more influential than… — Jeff Flake Copy Share Image
An asteroid impact in the worst case scenario is a terrifying thing. It seems very uncontrollable: in popular culture, it's often a… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel… — Aasif Mandvi 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
Read, listen to and watch everything you can. Explore the corners of popular culture and the arts. And, of course, these days… — Tom Freston Copy Share Image
“To the generations of Americans raised since World War 2, the identities of criminals such as Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, Baby Face… — Bryan Burrough Copy Share Image
One could dismiss the zombie trend as merely feeding a mass public that craves the strange and bizarre. Such an explanation would… — Daniel Drezner Copy Share Image
“[A] new finding shows that while in the 1940s, three-quarters of those surveyed claimed to dream in black and white, today, three-quarters… — Katherine A. Fowkes Copy Share Image
“Popular culture has twisted it, but popular culture has twisted madness in general. They make it funny, they romanticize it, or they… — wildbow Copy Share Image
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
Elvis Presley's death deprives our country of a part of itself. He was unique, irreplaceable. More than twenty years ago, he burst… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“The lesson here is that in an era in which logical reason is doubted and even dismissed, and the heart's desire is… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
The truth is, everything we know about America, everything Americans come to know about being American, isn't from the news. I live… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
The ideals of technological culture remain underdeveloped and therefore outside of popular culture and the practical ideals of democracy. This is also… — Paul Virilio 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
“Look, just because I'm an angry, repressed, Irish-Catholic feminist doesn't mean I hate everything. I only hate youth, beauty, the human body,… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
“Constantly exposing yourself to popular culture and the mass media will ultimately shape your reality tunnel in ways that are not necessarily… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
We've always believed that popular culture and populist politics go hand in hand. It's an honor to be working with so many… — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
“In an episode of The Simpsons, Homer tells the queen: “I know we don’t call as often as we should, and we… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
Many things have changed in our culture here in England as a direct result of the Pistols: the whole street-fashion thing in… — Julien Temple Copy Share Image
Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I think '60s are appealing to creative people, because it seemed to be a time of endless possibilities, when the boundaries of… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
The exclusion of true esoteric religion has been the business of the State since ancient times. At first this was done via… — Adi Da Copy Share Image
There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I feel a disparity between my life in India within the home and my life outside the home - my life within… — Chitra Ganesh Copy Share Image
When artists and philosophers talk only amongst themselves, they ignore the potential of popular culture to become a variety of dialogues with… — Brenda Laurel Copy Share Image
While we have a very strong popular culture, the roots of American culture are very shallow, and we put emphasis on how… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
Being in conversation with everything popular culture, there's such a danger there. Sometimes you just don't realize how it comes across, but… — Sarah Sherman Copy Share Image
The distortions and insults about organized religion will continue unabated as long as our popular culture continues its overall campaign against judgment… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
I never really thought of myself as a musician. I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
“Looking back, I imagine that I was very odd, that I spoke too loudly, or that I said nothing when things of… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“The Left would like to believe that racism—not the breakdown of marriage and family, the absence of religious norms, a degraded popular… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image