Popular Quotes

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

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.

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.

So, my fellow Christians, protest this film if you like, but then how about devoting some energy to fill the vacuum created by your retreat from popular culture.

.....science-based popular education can have an enormous impact on politics.

You're so vain. I bet you think this song is about you.

Doesn't anybody stay in one place any more?

There's no value to working hard on being really popular.

Ladies love me I'm on my cool J

President-elect Donald Trump is not happy that he lost the popular vote. And this stat is probably not going to make him feel any better.

Hillary Clinton's popular vote lead is now up to 2.3 million votes, but get this, [Donald] Trump's percentage of the popular vote has now dropped to 46.4 percent.

[Donald Trump] even quoted a tweet from a self-identified 16-year-old as a way to justify crazy unsupported claims about the popular vote.

I think there's a weird self-affirmation thing that happens in popular music in general. It seems like every song I hear on the radio is like, "Listen to me roar!" or "This is my fight song!"

Popular music is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world.

Avatar is a total nerd thing, and yet our popular culture has somehow made all that stuff acceptable.

England is a very popular foreign country to visit because the people there speak some English.

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

I am not concerned about the 80 BMP consistency law of popular music. I'm concerned with other things, and they're very valid.

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

I turn on the radio now and I don't have anything against a lot of sequenced and programmed and electronic music, a lot of it is dope and it's the future. It's what popular music has evolved to.

After Psychonauts went on to be very, very popular in Europe, I got busy with my next big project: being unemployed.

Apparently, I'm very, very popular in jails. They often ask me to come and speak.

I think it's really good to create pockets and events throughout the year that highlight certain things that are really popular on YouTube.

I play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music.

Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.

Today it is very popular to do a thing we call channeling. People are trying to channel entities and have these beings come through them. In my estimation this is downright ridiculous and dangerous.

There is obstruction. Enlightenment is not very popular in this world. History tells us that enlightened teachers who made themselves largely available to human beings had problems.

Many of us prefer to live in places abandoned by humans. Less work for us. Detroit is very popular.

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

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.

Such a closely divided election; Secretary [Hillary] Clinton won the popular votes.Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin - about 112,000 votes separated the two candidates as well.

Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.

The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It's also a form that's very popular - the straight-ahead biopic.

I moved to New York from California when I was 11, so initially I was seen as the California person for a while. I didn't feel like I was popular, but I did feel confident.

It doesn't take long to sum up the major theses of most popular music: he loves me; he left me; I need him; I needed him, but now I need his best friend. Rather limited scope.

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

I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies.

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

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

Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.

I don't go to movies, I don't own a television, I don't buy magazines and I try not to receive mail, so I'm not really aware of popular culture.

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.

Radio is very popular [in Britain], but it doesn't connect us in the same way. It seems to have this community function.

Popular culture is filled with girls.

I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway.

There was nothing that said the road to popular vote. Hey guys, we won. You don't have to respond.

Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.

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.