I maintain that Western popular culture at its best is worthy of respect and should be cherished as much as the operas… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
“Popular culture is a wonderful buffet to dine at. But it's easy to overeat.” — Benyamin Cohen Copy Share Image
“To immerse oneself in popular culture for any length of time is to wallow in an almost unbearable shallowness.” — Douglas Murray Copy Share Image
Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The Doors embodied—incarnated—a major upheaval in popular culture. Their music was of the times and it shaped the times. — Jac Holzman Copy Share Image
I myself wouldn't want to read a magazine that focuses solely on a small part of the literary field or of the… — Toni Jerrman Copy Share Image
America is, in many ways, as much an idea as it is a country. And Americans have long marketed that idea around… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
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… — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
If you watch any show that stars white people, white people aren't coming up to them like, 'Thank you for showing my… — Constance Wu 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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 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
You don't really see sleepwalking in films that often. It's weird; I feel like in popular culture we have the perception of… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
“In popular culture, detached irony and cynicism have ceded ground to an emphasis on sincerity and authenticity. The “too cool to care”… — Jonathan D. Fitzgerald 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
“She felt the cold blast from the sterile air conditioning on her bare arms and thighs, as she ambled down the center… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
“I wondered if my life was going to be one immersion after another, a great march of shallow, unpopular popular culture infatuations… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
“Commerce is considered by classical economists to be a positive-sum game. The act of selling and buying always benefits both the seller… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
“The popular culture has also lowered the threshold on public shaming rituals. It is not only suppressing certain speech on college campuses,… — Kim R. Holmes Copy Share Image
“Page-one news as it occurred, the story of the comics controversy is a largely forgotten chapter in the history of the culture… — David Hajdu Copy Share Image
“To do exciting, empowering research and leave it in academic journals and university libraries is like manufacturing unaffordable medicines for deadly diseases.… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
“the biggest problem with youth culture was not the immorality of its content but rather the sort of persons it tended to… — Thomas Bergler Copy Share Image
Avatar is a total nerd thing, and yet our popular culture has somehow made all that stuff acceptable. — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it's popular, it's not culture. — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, there is also the matter of Lovecraft’s place in popular culture.” — Ross E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
I strongly believe cinema is popular culture. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. That's life. — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
There's not a lot of room for thinking in popular culture; there's not a lot of room for being conflicted. — Hozier Copy Share Image
Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want. — Victor Davis Hanson 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
[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