Popular Culture Quotes

I think I have a pretty good take on popular culture that maybe makes up for the fact that I'm not a sound-bite politician for the nightly news.

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.

I hate these questions - I don't like talking about this stuff [popular culture], because it's so... to me, it's so ordinary.

We realized that the world of popular culture had been creating the perfect candidate for many years: the female champion of the universe.

Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part of a new elitism.

Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?

I'm not interested in popular culture, particularly. I'm not against it, I'm not avoiding it, but I'm not interested in it as a force in life.

Popular culture is filled with girls.

We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular - popular culture.

Korean feminism has been swept away by popular culture. It became a sort of old-fashioned trend or a joke.

It seems Korean women are enjoying a passive and fragile status, intoxicated by appearance. Not only feminism, but any serious discourse ends up being swept away by popular culture in Korea.

I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.

The nerd flavor of masculinity has overwhelmed the macho kind in real-life power dynamics, and therefore in popular culture.

I maintain that Western popular culture at its best is worthy of respect and should be cherished as much as the operas of Wagner.

Popular culture, in all its crudeness, is the output of liberals. It is liberalism that for decades has rejected any protest as 'censorship' or 'McCarthyism.'

I'm pretty much out of popular culture altogether.

I just don't care about popular culture. It looks to me pointless and superficial. If I had free time I'd rather read a 19th century novel.

Bloom never pissed me off because there are critics out there, and he's one of them, who take their ignorance about popular culture as a badge of intellectual prowess.

Women are in many ways second-class citizens in the United States in 2016, because of the way that we're portrayed in popular culture.

Yeah, I was a child of American popular culture.

Now pole dancing is part of popular culture as exercise.

The popular culture still ridicules religion and often treats it like the plague.

What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things.

I have a transgressive spirit, and Pop is transgression's best friend.

A conscious human is driven by their conscience, not popular opinion.

What’s not to love? I made friends with a pretty girl and now we get to plan a castle break in. This beats the day to day kill, eat and survive.

Pop is about speaking everybody's language. The imagery and iconography we instantly recognize. When you can rely on things that the public already knows, you're dealing with Pop.

Alice is fictional. This isn't.

Pure wisdom is the 'fruit of life' banal platitudes are the 'bane of existence'.

Popular feeling is very often sentimental, muddle-headed, and eminently unsound, but it cannot be disregarded for all that.

Give the People what they want - and they'll get what they deserve.

Misunderstanding is generally simpler than true understanding, and hence has more potential for popularity.

When there is no news, we will give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.

You're right that not everything we do has to have some kind of social agenda, but that doesn't mean it can only be anesthetizing crap.