I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show.
Branford Marsalis

The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers.
Juliana Hatfield

They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.
James F. Cooper

I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.
Anthony Holden

Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you.
George Shearing

As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
C. L. R. James

Compassion is not a popular virtue.
Karen Armstrong

The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.
Bianca Jagger

My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.
Roger Bannister

I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?
Kevin Costner

Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
Ferdinand Lassalle

Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.
Thurston Moore

The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything.
Elihu Root

Video games are so popular these days, getting the opportunity to star in one is something special. More people should do it.
Carrot Top

So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear.
Paul Weyrich

American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.
Vincente Minnelli

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.
Gavin DeGraw

I knew she was from Australia and I knew that is where she started but I didn't know if she was still popular there. I hope people understand we aren't making fun of Kylie.
Wayne Coyne

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.
Sydney Pollack

Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good.
Brendan Fraser