Quotes About Culture

No man is born believing that he has dominion over women. Instead, this view is handed down from generation to generation and amplified through social custom, culture, and popular media.

It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning.

Gossip is more popular than literature.

In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.

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

I was young enough to certainly realize the excitement of how popular 'Seinfeld' was.

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

In bohemian circles, we were very aware that poetry was missing from 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.

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.

I never believe any politician talking about popular culture.

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.

I love the idea of the amateur - that's what popular culture is all about. But what the Internet's doing is professionalizing everyone's amateuristic impulses.

Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.

In popular culture, when women compete, it's usually over a man, and it's usually very nasty. And that is just frankly not my experience. That's just some kind of popular mythology, it feels like. I find it insulting.

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.

Drag has been featured in popular culture for decades. Movies like 'Kinky Boots,' 'Tootsie,' 'The Birdcage' - even 'Mrs. Doubtfire' - have showcased men, some gay, some not, who dress and perform as women.

I have a fondness for making paintings that go beyond just having a conversation about art for art's sake or having a conversation about art history. I actually really enjoy looking at broader popular culture.

Like Christmas, Easter has lost much of its religious meaning in popular culture. Ask your average kid what the holiday is about and they will tell you all about the Easter Bunny, eggs hunts and baskets full of candy.