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
[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 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
For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“The conservatives are fools: They whine about the decay of traditional values, yet they enthusiastically support technological progress and economic growth. Apparently… — Theodore J. Kaczynski Copy Share Image
The nineties as a pop cultural sphere was a really fertile time for feminism that was grounded and located in popular culture.… — Andi Zeisler Copy Share Image
Often, we separate intellectual discourse from emotional reaction. But I take such genuine pleasure in things that are intellectually well architected. It's… — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
Most Southerners recognize when a story about their own experience feels off-kilter or offensive. But Southerners are also fascinated by the way… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
We are living at an important and fruitful moment now, for it is clear to men that the images of adult manhood… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I'm working… — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
“He knows how to market himself well. Nowadays, that's all that seems to count. He's rebellious in a way that appeals to… — Jess C. Scott Copy Share Image
It is amazing to me how deeply into the popular culture the creature has become. There are zombie walks in every major… — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
“We inculcate in our children the sensibilities of raccoons, a fascination with shiny objects and an appetite for garbage, and then carp… — Garret Keizer 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
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
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
I think we really need a movement to drive how popular culture understands the issues that feminists care about. When I think… — Ai-jen Poo Copy Share Image
Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire… — Frans de Waal 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
EDM has trained a new generation of listeners' ears to accept a much broader range of what equals a song. EDM has… — Tycho 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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