All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Women have sex lives of expectation,” I said. “For this I blame popular culture – to a certain extent – and most… — Jason Luke Copy Share Image
Right now it feels like we're playing a role, like me and a couple of my friends, in where popular culture is… — A-Trak Copy Share Image
It's interesting, even in popular culture, in our vernacular now, the whole idea of 'fake news.' You hear it repeated on scripted… — Dagen McDowell Copy Share Image
Over the course of my 20-year history as an executive in the music business and as the owner of a firm that… — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
“Underachievement is widely accepted in the popular culture, which puts little value on persistence in the face of setbacks or on the… — Kenneth W. Christian 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture.… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“I’m told that Sherlock Holmes never said, “Elementary, my dear Watson” (at least in the Arthur Conan Doyle books) Jimmy Cagney never… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Southern food that appears in contemporary popular culture is so exaggerated that it's hardly recognizable to most Southerners. This enriching of Southern… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
If there is a person behaving more destructively in popular culture than Mario Lavandeira, I cannot think of one. He has used… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
Long before social media existed, the proto-tweets of advertising had penetrated American popular culture: 'A mind is a terrible thing to waste.'… — David Droga Copy Share Image
With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
The popular culture says . . . Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house.… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
“They were unironic enthusiasts for all the mass pleasures the culture offered: television, NASCAR, cruises, Disney World, sports, celebrity gossip, and local… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
“There is no instant anything. Overnight success is a lie. That lie is just one of many lies that youth want to… — Mark T. Sneed 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
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 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
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
“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
“[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
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
“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
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
“This kind of thing is why more and more Christian parents are concluding that they cannot afford to keep their children in… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image