Popular culture is morally bankrupt, flagrantly licentious and utterly materialistic-and Madonna is the worst of all. — Tipper Gore Copy Share Image
I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture? — Bart Chilton Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the dream of liberating "high art" from its pretenses & returning it to the mass orgy of popular culture.” — the mag man Copy Share Image
Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Those are the things that excite me; what can you do with popular culture? — Naughty Boy Copy Share Image
I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show. — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture. — Morley Safer Copy Share Image
The alienated man lashing out at society is a trope that popular culture loves to explore. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
When I think about popular culture, I can't help but think that we're living in the age of loneliness. There's this illusion… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“the challenge of living with popular culture may well be as serious for modern Christians as persecution and plagues were for the… — Ken Myers Copy Share Image
I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their… — Matthew Sweet Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in popular culture, particularly. I'm not against it, I'm not avoiding it, but I'm not interested in it as… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
I've never had a stupid student in my life. I never look down on my students. I never thought, "Look at these… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“Some readers were aware that the novels they loved amounted to a propaganda campaign, that the love stories had a particular agenda… — Hanne Blank Copy Share Image
We will never know the extent of the damage movies are doing to us, but movie art, it appears, thrives on moral… — Pauline Kael 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
I think that popular culture takes a long time to catch up to what's actually happening in the world. Women have had… — Lisa Edelstein 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
“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
“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
“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
“In attunement, it is the infant who leads and the mother who follows. “Where their roles differ is in the timing of… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“I had come to New York when I was seventeen because—and maybe I was not fully conscious of this then—the city had… — Rayhane Sanders Copy Share Image
“Women's liberation and empowerment are terms feminists started using to talk about casting off the limitations imposed upon women and demanding equality.… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
“If you're too young to remember the Time Before Pong, then you probably can't appreciate the momentousness of its arrival. Bear in… — Devin C. Griffiths Copy Share Image
“We’re at this really unique time, I think, in trans representation in popular culture where homelessness, depression, mental health issues, instability-in-general are… — Mitch Kellaway Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the question was premature in Turner’s time, but not now. Currently we see around us an ever more apparent loss of… — Robert Zubrin Copy Share Image
The popular culture still ridicules religion and often treats it like the plague. — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
I hate these questions - I don't like talking about this stuff [popular culture], because it's so... to me, it's so ordinary. — Edward Snowden 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
My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I think gaming has influenced popular culture in a huge way. It's worked its way into novels, and blockbuster movies. — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now. — Brad Bird Copy Share Image
I don't want to be subsumed into popular culture and played on the radio next to some garbage music. — James Murphy Copy Share Image