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


James Wolcott

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THOMAS MCGUANE People constantly make pop-culture references. That's why it's called popular culture, becau...
SETH ROGEN I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.
MARC NEWSON And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You ...
KURT LODER I love England and I love English culture, particularly English pop culture.
ZACH GALLIGAN American pop culture is perpetually in adolescent mode. The notions of what it takes to be a man, as...
ALEX TIZON Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
AISHA TYLER There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swep...
SUSAN ORLEAN Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyon...
P. J. O'ROURKE Pop culture is like our subconscious.
HANNA ROSIN In popular culture, familiarity or cuddliness is important.
GARY R. EDGERTON It's a metaphor for our culture. This is where we get a lot of images we use in popular culture.
THE WIZARD OF OZ Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture.
MARILYN MANSON 'We Are Pop Culture' is my clothing line for women that started with just T-shirts. The clot...
CHRISTINA MILIAN We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures...
GILLIAN FLYNN Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of ...
JARON LANIER Pop culture is the greatest singular threat to original thought and imagination, that is if you have...
MANJUNAN GNANARATNAM If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the...
BARBARA KRUGER They represented the last great seismic shift in popular culture,
JOE LEVY We presume that people are pop culture junkies,
ELVIRA KURT I'm a great pop culture lover, and I'm not a snob.
DAVID FURNISH I've always had an interest in the fashion side of pop culture.
CHARLES KOPPELMAN The US is still recognized as a leading place to do business, the home of desirable brands and popul...
SIMON ANHOLT Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality ...
GARY BAUER I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisem...
DAMIAN LOEB I'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know.
Q-TIP I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.
ST. VINCENT Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is c...
CRISS JAMI Fashion is simply a guideline for style-less people to appear stylish.
CRISS JAMI Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at "hateful ragtime" no l...
SCOTT JOPLIN And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now...
BRAD BIRD When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
MAGGIE GALLAGHER More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution,
CHARLES BOWEN I'm a pop victim. I love pop music; I love pop culture. I love Olivia Newton-John.
RUPAUL I see no truth whatsoever in stories of extraterrestrial visitors, crop circles, the Bermuda Triangl...
DAN BROWN The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.
WANG LEEHOM It was sort of too juicy not to do. It's one of those events in pop culture.
BILLY JOHNSON New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.
PATRICIA MARX Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.
TREVOR DUNN When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA As a student of American culture, I am willing to argue that the Twist is a valid manifestation of t...
MARSHALL FISHWICK There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago...
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.
JOHN PODHORETZ And if you think about it, pretty much everything that made the twentieth century bearable was inven...
PAUL BEATTY My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
NATALIE COLE I view myself as being the average woman. While I am first lady, I wasn't first lady my whole li...
MICHELLE OBAMA It's up to us to take pop culture back and to express quality and dignity for both boys and girl...
ASHLEY JUDD Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON Most of my ukulele heroes were traditional players from Hawaii, like Eddie Kamae and Ohta-san. There...
JAKE SHIMABUKURO No longer will Native American culture be bottled up in collections and hidden from so many people i...
BEN CAMPBELL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES [Indeed, pop culture expert Robert Thompson, head of Syracuse University's Center for the Study of P...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged ...
TOM SHALES We're all delighted to be enshrined in one of the icons of pop culture. Yow! Are we having fun!
DAVID HOLLAND It's just amazing to do something that's part of a pop culture phenomenon.
CHASKE SPENCER No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.
GARRY TRUDEAU I love California. It has such a strong contribution to the history of culture, and popular culture....
HEDI SLIMANE I think if education was celebrated in pop culture, we'd live in a better place.
COTE DE PABLO There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - ...
ROLLO MAY The mutating virus of multiculturalism has escaped its breeding ground in elite universities and is ...
TOM TANCREDO Whiteness is not a culture. There is Irish culture and Italian culture and American culture - the la...
NOEL IGNATIEV It's up to us to take pop culture back and to express quality and dignity for both boys and girls.
ASHLEY JUDD In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figu...
THOMAS FRANK There is no Polish culture without Jewish culture.
DONALD TUSK Seriously, American pop culture must be the most predominant force on the planet, next to pollution ...
JOHNNY COLT I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record de...
BEBE REXHA This is about respect for our culture. The New Year is the most important festival in our culture, a...
HENRY LAU That ad has become as much a part of popular culture as the Energizer Bunny.
ANDREW PUZDER I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Look at the way sports, music and film have become driving forces of popular culture. Fashion is the...
IMRAN AMED Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.
MORLEY SAFER So we have a culture ? and one could say it's an advanced form of maritime culture ? that we've had ...
TONY SHERIDAN What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular...
ERICH FROMM I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pre...
BEBE REXHA All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that ...
KALLE LASN Greenies have been part of the clubhouse culture longer than card games.
MICHAEL WILBON Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you ge...
JONAH HILL Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.
MAX CANNON Liberals and conservatives tend to view the economy in purely materialistic terms. They make growth,...
GREG FORSTER The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
BILL GRIFFITH The proliferation of icons really happened about the time of television in the '50s. They're an impo...
ILEEN GALLAGHER I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped.
TAMRA DAVIS I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.
JOHN SHIRLEY The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the lif...
NORA EPHRON I blame Doctor Who. Mr Spock. The Scooby Gang: both the ones in the Mystery Machine and the ones wit...
ANDREA K. HöST It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books t...
TA-NEHISI COATES Ignorance of what is up to the world and covered by the pop culture which adoring the lifestyle is t...
KURT AHS Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don&...
HARUKI MURAKAMI If pop culture is a pool, it never hurts to dive into the deep end once in a while.
GREG GUTFELD You have to stay updated on trends, social things and pop culture, you need to stay with the times a...
COREY FELDMAN Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to cha...
AZAR NAFISI We are considering bringing in a political comedian or an actor or musician. We're going after young...
ARASH MASSOUDI It's generally my belief and those of others in this field of cultural studies that popular culture ...
MICHAEL ASIMOW There are good things in every culture and respecting a culture must only mean respecting the good t...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I'm absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I'm a massive pop...
SIOBHAN FAHEY We have a formula that works. There are plenty of scary movies to make fun of every year, and pop cu...
BOB WEINSTEIN There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight fo...
FEIST If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the grow...
DANIEL H. WILSON After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impac...
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JAMES DENTON There's nothing wrong with falling in love and sharing your life with someone.
LILY JAMES Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place ...
JAMES TAYLOR I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.
LEBRON JAMES I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.
JAMES THOMSON It's hard to know which stars in the sky will turn into black holes. And which ones will open up...
JAMES ALTUCHER The James Brown story is not about James Brown. It's about who's getting paid, whose interes...
JAMES MCBRIDE The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.
JAMES MCBRIDE In a way, light unites the spiritual world and the ephemeral, physical world. People frequently talk...
JAMES TURRELL I know there's Brooklyn and all the boroughs, but Manhattan specifically is so condensed that th...
THEO JAMES The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to s...
JAMES LARKIN Supernatural movies generally have a much more brooding pace. If you look at films like 'The Six...
JAMES WAN