The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.
Fredric Jameson

This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.
Anatoly Karpov

It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank.
John George Nicolay

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
Carl Bernstein

I really see low-fare carriers, quality low-fare carriers anyway, continuing to become more and more popular.
David Neeleman

It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
Paddy Ashdown

Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.
Liz Phair

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.
Ernest Renan

And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.
Brad Bird

I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.
Billy Eckstine

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.
Les Baxter

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.
Charles James Fox

And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used in any other popular songs at the time.
Bobby Sherman

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Richard Adams

When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn't say that I wasn't popular. I was a cheerleader when I was in junior high. I didn't make it in high school so I started a dance line.
Faith Ford

I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.
Sam Waterston

The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.
Michael York

The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.
Robert Sheckley

The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.
Andrew Eldritch

In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed.
Marvin Hagler