Quotes About Influence

Every 16-year-old person has a love for pop in them because pop is popular.

Sometimes pessimism or optimism gets popular, and it's contagious.

I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control.

There are those who build careers and companies just out of being popular on Instagram, but there's nothing behind them.

I've had people call me from bands that are very popular, and they're like, 'What do we do? We want to do what you do.' It's almost impossible to do what I do, because you would have to start in 1980. You can't just do it.

Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm so popular around the world.

We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.

Contrary to popular belief, Americans don't hate advertising.

If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.

All I've ever wanted to do is move the needle on popular culture.

I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are.

Some of these pro-drug messages come from popular 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.

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

With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.

I never believe any politician talking about popular culture.

Popular culture is filled with girls.

Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

There's just no way to stop a movement in popular culture. It's going to happen, with or without you. There's absolutely no way to stop that train.

Having a hit is nice, having some success, but when you move popular culture, that's a high.

My father has been a major force in the popular culture for a long, long time. He's a fascinating person.

We tell girls to be themselves, but then they have role models - sometimes too many role models - in popular culture who incarnate that kind of disconnectedness from oneself. We are taught to self-hate; we are taught to doubt. Our culture doesn't help us recognize ourselves as amazing beings without changing ourselves.

Political culture has become popular culture.