Popular Culture Quotes

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Noam Chomsky

Place, Decisions, Culture

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

Truth, Today, Reality

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
Noam Chomsky

Art, Real, Culture

I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting.
Camille Paglia

Fighting, Language, Culture

Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.
Camille Paglia

Rock, Leader, Far

There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy surface of popular culture. But these days, pop culture seems to have gotten fuzzier and fuzzier; notoriety comes and goes in the snap of a finger.
Susan Orlean

Time, Mind, Days

Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.
Stanley Crouch

Liars, Parents, Done

Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.
James Wolcott

Night, Culture, Longer

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.
Haruki Murakami

Movies, Small, High

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.
Morley Safer

Reality, Culture, Popular

A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.
Ismail Merchant

Words, Here, Few

People constantly make pop-culture references. That's why it's called popular culture, because people are aware of it and reference it constantly.
Seth Rogen

Why, Culture, Popular

I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.
Marc Newson

Youth, Culture, Interested

My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.
Paul Thomas Anderson

Marriage, Rock, Father

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

Good, Society, Movies

If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.
Daniel H. Wilson

Face, Culture, Growing

I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?
Alice Hoffman

Love, Dreams, Work

In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.
Garry Trudeau

Culture, Force, Popular

The Madden NFL franchise holds a special place in popular culture and the cover is a coveted position for players all over the league. I'm honored to be the first cover athlete chosen by Madden NFL fans and it's a great way to cap off an amazing year for the Saints and the city of New Orleans.
Drew Brees

Great, Amazing, Special

I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture.
Steve Guttenberg

Culture, Somebody, Popular

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

Work, Art, Movies

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

Show, Culture, Left

I think that popular culture takes a long time to catch up to what's actually happening in the world. Women have had to take care of themselves for quite a while. Actually, not had to take of themselves, but have wanted to take care of themselves, so I think it's a big transition that our country and our society has been going through a long time.
Lisa Edelstein

Time, Women, Society

And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture.
Kurt Loder

Important, Country, Rights

Some of these pro-drug messages come from popular culture.
John Walters

Culture, Popular, Messages

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

Pretty, Culture, Popular

When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.
Matthew Sweet

Play, Culture, Popular

The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
Aasif Mandvi

Experience, Show, Culture

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.
Carl Bernstein

Truth, Reality, Real

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 revile Arabs and Muslims in American popular culture.
Tony Shalhoub

Why, Become, Again

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